Ok I would like to know if I am able to have in instances of Firefox on my Portable Apps Platform?
I already have FF2 on it and would like to put FF3 on it. There are a few add-on's that FF3 still dosen't have so that is why I still FF2 around.
I have no intention of running both at the same time either.
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you can have them in separate folders in the PortablerApps folder. You just have to manually change the installations folder of FF3 to something different than the standard.
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How do I do that?
As you're running through the PortableApps.com Installer, it will ask you for the path to install to. By default, it will choose X:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable. You can change that to X:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable3 or something similar.
They'll both show in the menu as "Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition" but the shorter directory name (your version 2) will show up first.
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Worked like a charm.
Beside the option John described there is a second one. Rename the existing directory "FirefoxPortable" of your flash drive to "Firefox2Portable" or similar. After this you can install FF3 the usual way and use both versions alternatively.