Firefox 3 Beta available
Today Firefox3 beta was released and I grabbed my copy from here.
I want to use it side by side with my existing Firefox 2 installation. The new version is installed automatically into a separate folder so all I had to do is to set up a separate profile.
I did this by running firefox.exe -ProfileManager from Start -> Run which opens up the the profile manager. Inside the profile manager I created a new profile (I called it “beta1″) and closed the manager.
I changed the target of the Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1 shortcut on my desktop to
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1\firefox.exe" -no-remote -P beta1
which starts my Firefox 3 instance with the newly created profile. The -no-remote parameter allows me to run both profiles simultaneously and links from other applications are always opened in Firefox 2.
