Sorry, I didn't mean "if I had FF3 running" - I had it *installed* but not running. And maybe I could have made it work, but I was under time pressure. I just installed FF2 through Ubuntu's standard "apt" system, and I'd hoped that it would be configured to install it completely independently.
When I have more time I'll try again - but running a beta browser, with an alpha of FireBug, I wasn't really very surprised to have stability issues. Maybe I should have been. As for vmware - I guess I'm used to it, I already use vmware to test different versions of ie, so adding Firefox to one of them isn't a biggie. - Korny On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/05/20 18:27 (GMT+1000) Korny Sietsma apparently typed: > >> I have had problems running FF2 on a machine also running FF3 - >> specifically, and fatally for me, FireBug wouldn't install cleanly in >> FF2 if I had FF3 running. > > Did you ever think to try closing the other long enough to get it to install? > Have you been trying to use the same profile for multiple versions? Have you > tried virgin profiles? Visit irc://moznet/#firefox or > irc://moznet/#mozillazine or irc://moznet/#seamonkey and people who know what > it takes will help you get it going. > >> I'd load FF3 in a vmware image, or maybe test it with an Ubuntu 8.04 live CD. > > Absolutely unnecessary gross overkill. > >> Release Candidate 1 is out now, so hopefully things will get more >> stable when Ubuntu picks it up, but at the moment it's a world of pain >> - at least for my configuration! > > I've been running various flavors of alpha & beta Gecko products simultaneous > with release versions of same cross-platform (Linux, OS/2 & Win; adding OS X > recently) for over 7 years. If you can't get it to work routinely, you're not > correctly following directions, or have a general system problem. Using > multiple versions does require the MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 environment variable, or > equivalent command line option, plus multiple profiles. > > Realize that SeaMonkey and Firefox are just different faces on the same > rendering engine, so you can take the easy way out and just run the devel > version of one and the release version of the other if following the multiple > version instructions is somehow not doable for you. > -- > ". . . . in everything, do to others what you would > have them do to you . . . ." Matthew 7:12 NIV > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com kornys at gmail dot com on google chat -- kornys on skype "we do what we must, because we can" ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
