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Originally Posted by mart44
I found the beta version of Firefox 2.0 initially grabbed hold of the existing 1.5 Profile and disabled a few extensions. It was OK after a separate Profile was created for Firefox 2.0. After that, one Profile or the other could be selected in the Profile Manager when starting up each version of the browser.
Alternatively, a couple of .bat files can be used to make the browsers start up independantly of each other without the need to use the Profile Manager. Firefox 1.5 and Firefox2 Beta 2 can even both run at the same time (if you want them to), each one using its own Profile. I found that best in the end. Instructions here on how to set it up. |
Yes Firefox will use the existing default profile and check to see if they are compatible. If not, it will disable them. It's what it's supposed to do.
The annoying thing about using 2 profiles was when trying to open a link from an email or from a separate application. With the FF shortcuts, you had to put the "-P" profilemanager suffix, to tell FF which profile to use, but you can't with the above. So with me anyway, it must have tried to open the 1.5 profile and went through the compatibility test.
Alternate to using the profile manager, just keep a backup copy of your profile, uninstall 1.5 and install 2.0. If you want to go back to 1.5, uninstall 2.0, swap the profiles over and then install 1.5.