Issues running Firefox 1.5 and 2.x simultaneously

Hello All,
I followed advice on an older post about how to run Firefox 1.5 and 2.x simultaneously. However I'm having a couple of problems when I click links in emails and IM windows or url shortcuts on my desktop.

If Firefox is not open I get:

Windows cannot find 'http://.... ". Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again.

If Firefox is running, then I get the above message and:
Firefox is already running and not responding.

Here are the files I have
FIREFOX2.BAT

@echo off
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
start " " "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -p "default "
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=0​

FIREFOX1.BAT

@echo off
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
start " " "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 1.5\firefox_1_5.exe" -p "05312007 "
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=0​

PROFILES.INI

13:10 5/31/2007
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/43r98rol.default
Default=1

[Profile1]
Name=05312007
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/clone_05312007.05312007​

Thanks,
Chris

 

Welcome to the Forum, Chrismartin76

Chris,

I believe this is what you're looking for:

Managing Multiple Firefox Profiles

As of Firefox 2.0, you can use the "-no-remote" command line option instead of setting the var in a batch file.

It's also worth noting that using no-remote breaks external links. That is, if you click on a link from your favorite chat client, the link will not open in your Firefox instance.

A way around this, assuming you want to run two profiles at once, is to start your primary Firefox instance normally, from the Desktop shortcut, adding the default profile name:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe " -p "default

then start your second instance using -no-remote. This way, external links will still work (they will open in the primary instance).

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 1.5\firefox_1_5.exe" -p 05312007 -no-remote

Let us know if this solves your problem.

.

 

This line doesn't seem to work--it launches firefox 2. According to geektolive, the -no-remote flag only works with firefox 2.0, but am I doing something wrong?

I did change the registry setting for hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\firefox.exe to point to the 2.0 version. I don't know if that's relevant; I don't think it is.

A workaround that does seem to work is to launch firefox 2.0 in a normal way and then launch firefox 1.5 via the batch file.
Thanks,
Chris