Re: [PCWorks] Installing 2 versions of FireFox, odd problems
- From: Peter Kaulback <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:20:12 -0400
You can't use two different versions, the newest will always dominate.
If you do need 2 separate versions then you will require either a
virtual pc setup, or a usb key (I prefer this) or other media. This
happens with most applications on windows. I can do this on Linux buts
its a different can of worms.
Portable Firefox http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/ can help you do this.
HTH Clint.
Peter Kaulback
On 4/26/2010 1:28 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin wrote:
> This is regarding and started with
> //www.freelists.org/post/pcworks/How-do-you-go-back-to-a-previous-version-of-FireFox
>
> I installed http://www.mozbackup.org/ and did a backup of
> everything in FF that it could.
>
> I found v3.5.2 at
> http://www.oldversion.com/Mozilla-Firefox.html and I installed
> it in a NEW FOLDER, separate from v3.6.3 so I could have both
> installed.
>
> I clicked to start v3.5.2, and to my shock, all of the
> extensions FROM v3.6.3 were already installed and setup! How
> is that possible? The 'Real Player Browser Record' plugin was
> back and working on v3.5.2, while it does show up at YouTube
> for example, the YT jerks have found a way to still disable it!
> But at least it will work at other websites. (With FF at YT
> one will just have to use another plugin like
> "VideoDownloader").
>
> I closed v3.5.2 and opened 3.6.3, and both were still
> installed, and working "independently" of each other, but I
> don't know just how independently because of the extensions
> mysteriously showing up installed and configured on v3.5.2.
> Does the Mozilla installer look for setup files or Profile
> folders from past installations and apply those to all
> installs? (If so, shouldn't it ASK if that's what you want to
> do?) So it seems all is ok.
>
> So I shut my PC down for the day, restarted it today, went to
> start v3.5.2 and for some reason this time there was a box that
> showed up saying something like or about "....checking add-on
> compatibility....". I don't understand why that didn't happen
> yesterday when I first loaded it.
>
> Then I started v3.6.3 and it also did the same thing! Also, it
> somehow re-added 2 add-ons to the main browser bar at the top
> that I had previously REMOVED. It also didn't go to my default
> FF page, it went to that Mozilla page saying something like
> "Welcome to FF 3.6.3". Well, that's what I have been running
> for several weeks now!
>
> Each time I open 3.6.3, still after a wait of MINUTES (AFTER
> FIRST opening 3.5.2), the "Add-ons" panel immediately opens up!
> And it goes through that "....checking add-on
> compatibility...." again! And it also says I have installed 3
> new extensions!! Oh really?? WHICH ONES??? It also keeps
> RE-enabling one of the two I disabled! It also keeps going
> back to the Mozilla default page saying I have 3.6.3 installed!
>
> If I open 3.6.3 again WITHOUT first opening 3.5.2, all is
> normal! (Again, after a wait of 5+ minutes). Then if I go to
> open 3.5.2, then it goes through all that BS again described
> above with 3.6.3! If it open 3.5.2 again, it's normal!
>
> It would seem two versions of FF cannot exist on the same
> PC. ?? If they can, how do I stop this intolerable behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> -Clint
>
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