Warren Togami wrote:
Rodd Clarkson wrote:
With the inclusion of Firefox 3 in f9, how easy would it be to include
RPMs for older versions of firefox.
I do web development and while I can't wait to be able to use ff3 for
personal browsing, I still need to be able to test with ff2 (and ff1.x
would be nice too).
This is something that has always frustrated me about Windows.
Recently, I was offered IE7 as and update. This is great, as I need to
be able to test this browser, but now I have no ie6 to test with.
Arghh.
Can we do better, by offering installs of older browsers that can be run
in parallel to make it easier to test browser based development?
If you have parallel installs of Firefox, doesn't it try to use the same
.mozilla/firefox directory and things go horribly wrong?
As a web developer you might be better off downloading upstream's binary
tarballs and putting them in the homedir of a different non-root user so
the different versions don't step on each other.
Using the other version is not a problem if you're using two different profiles
within Firefox (both profiles get stored in ./mozilla/firefox under different
subdirs). The problem with packaging it for a system wide install would be that
there is no simple way to setup using different profiles for a user who just
installs the RPM and expects it to work. I don't see any way around this.
I've used multiple profiles for awhile due to heavily using extensions, so I
occasionally want to startup a profile with things stripped down.
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