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Test nightly builds of Firefox 3 without installing
This is a neat trick. If you're one of those bleeding edge people who want to try out Firefox 3 while it's still undergoing major changes, but don't want the hassle involved in installing, uninstalling, and repeating daily, this script could be a major time saver. The nifty script downloads the nightly build and installs it as a portable configuration, allowing you to keep the use of your trusty mainline Firefox, and still play around with the nightly build like the cool kids.
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Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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AsktheAdminDotCom said 10:58AM on 7-31-2007
This is just what I needed!
Much love From Your friends over @ http://www.askTheAdmin.com
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Download Sqaud No #1 fan said 10:58AM on 7-31-2007
Any word on when Firefox 3 gets a official release?
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Ryan Wagner said 1:20PM on 7-31-2007
This is an awesome tool...nice find Grant!
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bugmenot said 2:18PM on 7-31-2007
If you really want to be like the cool kid, you use the command line argument to start with alternate profiles. Almost like the cool kids, not using the script (/w included portable firefox), but use Free The Fox , http://www.mai9.net/blog/prog/firefox/free-the-fox/ , then run as many firefoxes from a USB drive at the same time as you like (may want to disable disk cache then), like a few different builds of Firefox Musume, maybe portable k-meleon and a few copies of opera and maxthon on the side.
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Marc Savoy said 2:53PM on 7-31-2007
This is way cool. Thanks very much. This is *exactly* what I, as the Firefox-crazed user that I am, would have wished for had I thought of it.
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Nxqd3051990 said 10:02AM on 8-01-2007
You should use sandboxie :)
nXqd
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Ryan Wagner said 2:17PM on 8-01-2007
Sandboxie is definitely an awesome app!
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dave said 12:23PM on 8-06-2007
i get a 403 Forbidden when I follow the "Read" link.
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Martin said 4:13PM on 8-06-2007
I get:
"You don't have permission to access /s/slythfox/ on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
when I click on the "this script" link, and I really wanted to try this.
Please fix the link.
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Ryan Wagner said 11:10PM on 8-06-2007
A mirror of the script can be found here:
http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2007/07/31/updating-portable-firefox-with-a-script/
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