Brad, "Workstation"is the Windows version of the product, i.e. run multiple instances of "WinXP" inside (or on top) of Windows XP. You can do the same with Microsoft's version of "VirtualPC" (can't remember the exact name of the product now)
Further, VMware's Server is free, and there are a lot of premade containers available in the "Virtual Appliance Marketplace" http://www.vmware.com/appliances/ sincerely, mehboob alam To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible. --- On Wed, 7/23/08, Brad Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Brad Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] [OFF] FF2 and FF3 Windows > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 12:38 PM > That would only allow me to run Windows Firefox in a Mac. It > wouldn't > solve the problem of running both browsers in the same > session. The > utility Aparajita suggested wouldn't be applicable > under virtualization > anyway. Granted I could run different VMs for each browser > instance, but > I could do that under Windows with VMWare. If I really need > to run > FF2/FF3 or IE6/IE7 side-by-side on a regular basis, I might > just have to > go that way. > > Also as an update to what I noted yesterday re Mozilla, I > discovered you > can create shortcuts for FF2 and FF3 and specify the > profile as shown > below. You'll need to turn off the "Ask at > Startup" (or whatever its > called) option in the Profile Manage for this to work > though. > > "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox > 2\firefox.exe" -P Firefox2 -no-remote > > "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox > 3\firefox.exe" -P Firefox2 -no-remote > > This allowed me to run FF2 and FF3 side-by-side with some > success. I > did note a problem when another application opened a URL > via the > "default browser". > > -- Brad > > Mehboob Alam wrote: > > http://www.parallels.com/en/workstation/ > > > > sincerely, > > mehboob alam > > > > To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the > impossible. > > > > > > --- On Tue, 7/22/08, Brad Perkins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> From: Brad Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] [OFF] FF2 and FF3 > Windows > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 1:01 PM > >> Thanks, but I need this to work on Windows :( > >> > >> -- Brad > >> > >> Aparajita Fishman wrote: > >> > >>>> If there a way to run these browsers > side-by-side > >>>> > >> (or at least > >> > >>>> installed on the same machine) and have > Firebug > >>>> > >> support in both? > >> > >>> > >> > http://www.codecontortionist.com/software/mac-osx-software/multifirefox/ > >> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Aparajita > >>> www.aparajitaworld.com > >>> > >>> "If you dare to fail, you are bound to > >>> > >> succeed." > >> > >>> - Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org > >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> Active4D-dev mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> > >>> > >> > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev > >> > >>> Archives: > >>> > >> > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/ > >> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Active4D-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev > >> Archives: > >> > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/ > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Active4D-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev > > Archives: > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Active4D-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev > Archives: > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/ _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
