Is it possible to modify a Firefox Portable launcher or app to allow more than one to run at a time? I'm doing some web testing and would like to be able to run them side by side to make comparisons. I would also like to be able to run torpark alongside firefox, but the exe running is the same. Is this something that can be changed in the launcher, or would I need to re-compile the programs to change the exe name?
Thank You
Edit: I found the option in the ini file to change the name of the exe, and changed them to firefox1.5.exe, firefox2.0.exe, and torfox, respectively. Torpark doesn't work with these settings. Launching 1.5 works fine, but when I open 2.0, it just opens a new window of 1.5. Ideas?
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you can set
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"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
that does it!
awesome. thanks.
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Are there any gotchas with allowing multiple instances of Firefox?
I suppose anything could happen, but is it widely known if any data corruption or weird behavior happens when you run 2 or more Firefoxes at the same time?
I ask because I plan to use Portable Firefox with GTDInbox (http://www.gtdinbox.com/) to log in to a dedicated Gmail account for TODOs. I could keep the secondary Firefox open, and still have my personal mail account working in my main Firefox instance. The Gmail Manager extension isn't cutting it for me.
Thanks!
There could be some problems like one instance using the other's profile, but nothing too major.
Best thing is to try.
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Ryan McCue
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I am running RC3 of Version 2.0 now, and the add-on will not install on FFP. Any insight?
Jay
According to Mozillas add-on page it isn't compatible with Firefox 3. So you have to wait till it is compatible to use it
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Thank you for saying that you can "set AllowMultipleInstances=true" to run more than one Firefox, but how does one exactly do that?
Do I need to learn some kind of scripting language?
Thanks!
Copy FirefoxPortable\Other\FirefoxPortableSource\FirefoxPortable.ini into the same folder as FirefoxPortable.exe
Open FirefoxPortable.ini in Notepad and change the line
AllowMultipleInstances=falsetoAllowMultipleInstances=true----
Ryan McCue
Cube Games
There are only two states in Australia: Queensland and Drunk
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I can accomplish this by changing the ini file and moving it to the WAME folder? COOL
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Nice. I've fixed it up.
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
There are only two states in Australia: Queensland and Drunk
If you have any questions about the comment above, or anything, please don't hesitate to ask.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Say that I want 3 or 4 Firefoxes, for example each with different Gmail cookies so that each PortableFirefox opens a different Gmail account without being affected by the cookies of the others. So, put multiple versions of PortableFirefox on my hard drive, and then copy FirefoxPortable.ini with AllowMultipleInstances=true to EACH of those firefox.exe's? Or just one of them is enough... if so, which firefox.exe is the main one?
Thanks!
You need the INI for every copy.
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
There are only two states in Australia: Queensland and Drunk
If you have any questions about the comment above, or anything, please don't hesitate to ask.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."