Firefox 3 RC1

[Michael Morris]

I have upgraded my Firefox install to version 3 RC1. Since I can't have Firefox 2 installed at the same time this means that I am not able to inspect or verify problems in Firefox 2's rendering of CSS any longer. All users of Firefox are advised to upgrade.

 

[Blackrat]

Thanks for noting .

 

[RangerWickett]

I always wondered why we can't have multiple versions of a browser on the same computer. You'd figure there'd be enough demand from people coding websites who need to check format in multiple versions that the people making Firefox would have an easy-to-implement solution.

 

[JohnRTroy]

Actually Morrus, that isn't true. If you always used the default path it will try to overwrite the existing one, but when I installed Firefox 3 it overwrote my 1.x version and left my 2.x version alone.

There's also a web site that give you guidance.

http://www.empiregpservices.com/blog/post.cfm/running-multiple-versions-of-firefox

 

[Psion]

Actually Morrus, that isn't true.

Advisory.
Michael Morris is not Morrus.

That said: I'll consider upgrading to FF3 once I am confident all my plugins work. (I hear it's much better on memory, which is a good thing [TM].)

 

[Destil]

Fewer memory leaks and some nice features, indeed.

But JohnRTroy 100% right here. Just point the installer it someplace else and you can have both versions, firefox is smart about this.

 

[Nifft]

Thanks for noting .

I mentally added an aitch and wondered why you were being mean to Mike.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Greylock]

Actually Morrus, that isn't true. If you always used the default path it will try to overwrite the existing one, but when I installed Firefox 3 it overwrote my 1.x version and left my 2.x version alone.

There's also a web site that give you guidance.

http://www.empiregpservices.com/blog/post.cfm/running-multiple-versions-of-firefox

Ditto. When FF3 came out I installed it on it's own, and switched back and forth between FF2 and the new one quite often. There were a number of bugs in FF3 that forced me to use 2 for a long while. But I think it was in Beta at the time.

 

[Morrus]

Advisory.
Michael Morris is not Morrus.

Please, everyone, remember this. I realise Mike's surmane sounds a little bit like my username, but that's the only similarity. And I, the guy who owns thisnsite, am the only person who speaks with authority on non-moderation issues (moderatation issues are delegated to the moderators and are backed up with full authority)

 

[hong]

I mentally added an aitch and wondered why you were being mean to Mike.

Cheers, -- N

Hnoting? Sounds very Anglo-Saxon.