How to Run Firefox 1.5 And Firefox 2.0 RC3 Side by Side
Mozilla has recently announced Release Candidate 3(RC3) of the next version of Firefox - Firefox 2.0. Those who can’t wait for the final version to be released before having a peek at the new features(not too many actually) that will be part of Firefox 2.0 can grab the RC3 version and install it on their systems.
For Windows users there is an all familiar wizard based installer file to install it, but remember that it will overwrite the existing Firefox installation, so make sure that you really want to move to a version that is not completely bug free yet(release candidates are fairly stable but of course not as stable as the final version) and you understand that you might have to live with a broken installation if luck is not on your side. In any case, backup the current profile before attempting to upgrade to RC3 so that you can go back to it by reinstalling the stable version if things do go wrong.
The same thing applies to the GNU/Linux users too: grab the tar ball of the RC3 version of Firefox 2.0 and install it on your system(again ). But if you want to minimize the risk of corrupting the current Firefox installation and still want to get a sneak peek into what the next version of Firefox is going to be like, you can just extract the Firefox 2.0 RC3 tar file into a separate folder in your home directory, create a new profile for it and run the new version of Firefox using this newly created profile; this way, you can continue to use the stable version of the Firefox with your older profile. Below is the procedure on how to do this.
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