Re: [PCWorks] Installing 2 versions of FireFox, odd problems
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:13:27 -0500
So I guess you're saying that's also possible with two 3.x
versions?
(I have some emails much older than that, but like that one
they are saved because they had good info in them).
-Clint
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kaulback"
Oops my mistake Clint. 2 years worth of emails in the sent
folder?
My apologies :)
Happy dual browsing to you.
Peter Kaulback
On 4/27/2010 3:42 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin wrote:
> I don't remember how I found it, (searching for something and
> it showed up on the results), but in my Sent folder I found
> an
> email of yours from 2 years ago discussing this, and found
> this
> link in it:
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=613873
> Here's the thread and post:
> //www.freelists.org/post/pcworks/PCWorks-FireFox-3x-info-Was-Re-Mozilla-Firefox-Unspecified-Code-Execution-Vulnerability,2
>
> That's no longer the case with two 3.x versions?
> -Clint
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Kaulback"
>
>
> 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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