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Install and Run FireFox 2 and 3 simultaneously

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Steps to run Firefox 2 and 3 at the same time: (Assuming you have already installed Firefox2)

  1. Create a new Firefox profile: In the Windows Run box (Win+R) type:

    firefox -profilemanager -no-remote.

    Click on “Create Profile”, name it “firefox3″.

  2. Download a nightly build of Firefox3. Download the zip file (firefox-xxxx.en-US.win32.zip). Extract it in some directory, say c:\myapps\ff3

  3. Run Firefox3: In Windows Run Dialogue type:
    c:\myapps\ff3\firefox.exe -P minefield -no-remote

Reference: blog.codefront.net