Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Running multiple version of firefox

If you want to run multiple versions of firefox on same machine, follow below steps:

1. Close your all running instances of firefox
2. Download older versions of firefox from http://www.oldversion.com/Mozilla-Firefox.html and do a custom install, install them on a specific version directory. For example I installed them as below:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox_6.0.2
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox_7.0.1
3. Create profiles for every version by following steps:
    A. Goto Run command (or press WINDOWS+R)
    B. C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox_6.0.2 -P
    C. It will open a profile window, Create a profile name with 'Firefox6.0.2'
4. Repeat step 3 for all firefox versions, create unique profile for each version
5. To run a specific version of firefox use below command:
<path to firefox executable> -no-remote -P <profile name>


C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox_6.0.2\firefox.exe -no-remote -P Firefox6.0.2
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox_7.0.1\firefox.exe -no-remote -P Firefox7.0.1

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