Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR on the same machine

[Robin Laing]

Hi, I need to use Java within Firefox for some network tools that 
require it.  Is there a way to use both Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR 
on the same machine?

I spend quite some time to get Quantum to work close to what I and I 
don't want to lose that.

Robin

[Fernando Cassia]

On 2/27/18, Robin Laing <MeSat(a)telusplanet.net&gt; wrote:
>  Hi, I need to use Java within Firefox for some network tools that
>  require it.  Is there a way to use both Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR
>  on the same machine?
>
>  I spend quite some time to get Quantum to work close to what I and I
>  don't want to lose that.
>
>  Robin 
Yes, Robin,

What I do is download the AppImage build of Firefox.
https://dl.bintray.com/probono/AppImages/:Firefox-57.0.4.glibc2.3.4-x86_6...

And then rename it firefox-latest, put it somewhere on your $PATH

Then have the ESR version installed by your package manager

You might want to use separate user-profiles... eg make both launchers
use the -P command line option to invoke the Profile Manager window
upon launch. This allows you to have separate profiles for each and
avoid any conflict with addons or differences between versions...

FC

[Robin Laing]

On 26/02/18 20:07, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>  On 2/27/18, Robin Laing <MeSat(a)telusplanet.net&gt; wrote:
> > Hi, I need to use Java within Firefox for some network tools that
> > require it.  Is there a way to use both Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR
> > on the same machine?
> >
> > I spend quite some time to get Quantum to work close to what I and I
> > don't want to lose that.
> >
> > Robin
>  
>  Yes, Robin,
>  
>  What I do is download the AppImage build of Firefox.
>  https://dl.bintray.com/probono/AppImages/:Firefox-57.0.4.glibc2.3.4-x86_6...
>  
>  And then rename it firefox-latest, put it somewhere on your $PATH
>  
>  Then have the ESR version installed by your package manager
>  
>  You might want to use separate user-profiles... eg make both launchers
>  use the -P command line option to invoke the Profile Manager window
>  upon launch. This allows you to have separate profiles for each and
>  avoid any conflict with addons or differences between versions...
>  
>  FC
>  _______________________________________________ 
Thanks for the quick response.

I would rather do it the other way and have the ESR version as the 
firefox-oldest.

A separate profile is a great idea and I normally use different accounts 
for most of my stuff if possible.  Helps to keep my stuff separate and 
less finger issues.  :)

Will try it tonight.

Robin

[Fernando Cassia]

On 2/27/18, Robin Laing <MeSat(a)telusplanet.net&gt; wrote:

>  Thanks for the quick response. 
You're welcome.

>  I would rather do it the other way and have the ESR version as the
>  firefox-oldest. 
But I'm not sure if the AppImage project maintainers build
Firefox-ESR... I haven't seen it on the repo.

>  A separate profile is a great idea and I normally use different
> accounts
>  for most of my stuff if possible.  Helps to keep my stuff separate and
>  less finger issues.  :)
>
>  Will try it tonight.
>  Robin 
There's some odd configuration in bintray that hosts the AppImage
binaries where there appears a : on the path, you have to remove it if
you want to download using wget...

Also, remember to sudo chmod a+x the .Appimage to make it executable.
You can then rename it to whatever you want...  move it around to some
dir in your $PATH

FC

[Samuel Sieb]

On 02/26/2018 06:56 PM, Robin Laing wrote:
>  Hi, I need to use Java within Firefox for some network tools that 
>  require it.  Is there a way to use both Firefox Quantum and Firefox ESR 
>  on the same machine? 
I just download the tarball from Mozilla into my home directory and 
manually run it from there with a separate profile.  Make sure you add 
the "-no-remote" parameter.  You could even make your own .desktop file 
for it for easier launching.