Comments on: Browser VM

By: Harrie

Harrie — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:54:48 +0000

For Linux “portable” installs, you can use the the compressed tarball at:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pu.....686/en-US/

For other versions/locales change the URL a bit or go here. You can get all versions starting from 1.0 (the same is true for all Mozilla products).

Extract this archive to a place you like, cd into it and run ./firefox.

I don’t use Mac’s, so I don’t know if the dmg files which can be found on the same site are just installers, or archives which you can extract to a different location, but Smokey Ardisson already provided a link for portable Mac apps.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:55:38 +0000

Actually, the command line switch to let you run additional Fx instances is -no-remote, and it doesn’t work for versions prior to 2.0. For versions prior to 2.0, you have to set the environment variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE to 1. For example, in a (Windows) batch file you could do this:

set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
start “” “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” -p profilename

By: Dao

Dao — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:21:24 +0000

I just have the older versions installed and launch them with my testing profile. This never caused any problems.

By: Big Gary

Big Gary — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:53:56 +0000

I think using the -noremote command line switch should let you launch more than one instance of Firefox at once.

By: Smokey Ardisson

Smokey Ardisson — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:06:14 +0000

The dedicated and ever-resourceful Gand from FreeSMUG has engineered portable versions of Firefox, Camino, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Nvu, and other popular open-source Mac apps: http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/