How to run 2 versions of Firefox? (Solved)

[xenial]

Hi--
I have downloaded firefox 45 ESR purely for nostalgic reasons as i adore the full themes which were available for this browser.I extracted the downloaded tarball into my /opt folder and simply moved the firefox-bin icon onto my desktop.

Is there any way possible i can run firefox 78 esr as well on my computer too.?

thanks.

[mikewalsh]

Hi, xenial.

Try my self-contained, portable 45ESR. It's got a glibc-219 'tweak' - courtesy of watchdog - and, although it was built to work with older Puppies, it should fire up and run fine.

Start it from the enclosed 'ff' script, and it'll create its own, internal profile.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aQe2Qm ... sp=sharing


Mike.

[xenial]

Hi mike and thank you for your response.
I do have firefox45 esr up and running with some of the great themes installed etc.I consider this era the true firefox period and i like to have this versions around for pure nostagia and the fantastic look of the old firefox.

What i have done is downloaded the firefox 78 esr tarball and i am not certain how i would go about running this in tandem with 45esr.

For some sites i do need a more up to date browser kicking about.

[mikewalsh]

@xenial:-

In that case, d/l the FF78esr-portable. Follow the usual instructions; d/l, unzip, put it anywhere you want. Click to enter, click 'LAUNCH' to fire it up.

The beauty of the 'portable'-format as we now have them working is that you can run multiple versions side-by-side. You can even have them open at the same time.....I frequently do this with 3 or 4 of the Chromium-clone 'portables'. Profile/cache, etc, is completely self-contained, so no one of them will interfere with the operation of any other.

FF78esr-portable can be found here:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Navigate through & help yourself to the one you want.


Mike.

[xenial]

okay i have managed to get both firefox 45 and 78 esr running separately on my computer.However i now have no sound in firefox 78.I cannot remember how to create the script which launches apulse with firefox.

I have firefox 78esr extracted in opt/.

[mikewalsh]

okay i have managed to get both firefox 45 and 78 esr running separately on my computer.However i now have no sound in firefox 78.I cannot remember how to create the script which launches apulse with firefox.

I have firefox 78esr extracted in opt/.

Mm. I assume here you're working with the extracted tarball direct from Mozilla?

If you're in /opt, it should simply need to be

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apulse /opt/firefox/firefox

I think that's right.....though I haven't used the 'standard' Firefox install for quite some time, having used the portable format ever since Fred introduced it to the community.


Mike.

[xenial]

@mike.

That worked a treat and thank you.Yes i downloaded from the mozilla site.Your help is very much appreciated.

greetings from rainy lincs.

[mikewalsh]

@mike.

That worked a treat and thank you.Yes i downloaded from the mozilla site.Your help is very much appreciated.

greetings from rainy lincs.

No worries. Glad I could help..! (The more so, considering Firefox has never been my "go-to" browser.....although it makes a very "secondary", or back-up one.)

In my view, you can never have too many of the things....


Mike.