Re: [Active4d-dev] [OFF] FF2 and FF3 Windows

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:00:05 -0700

I have a license for VMWare Workstation, but have never gotten around to installing it and building the VMs. Intended use would be to run Linux and Solaris (not more Windows). What would be nice is to see if anyone has built any "Appliances" geared towards testing multi-browsers. I see that some exist, but a cursory review shows most appear to be Linux based. 

best,

Brad

Mehboob Alam wrote:

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




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