Comments on: How to: Running Multiple Firefox Instances http://www.stanleyshilov.com/blog/how-to-run-multiple-firefox-instances/ Web Development with a twist of Affiliate Marketing Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:34:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dchuk http://www.stanleyshilov.com/blog/how-to-run-multiple-firefox-instances/comment-page-1/#comment-1378 dchuk Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:07:10 +0000 http://www.stanleyshilov.com/?p=192#comment-1378 So I finally started digging...apparently, if you just pass a :profile => "example_profile" to the browser.new function, it should load that profile. This would be perfect if coupled with a script that checked to see if a profile existed for whatever app you're running, and if it doesn't exist, creates a basic one, then continues on to launching the browser. # Description: # Starts the firefox browser. # On windows this starts the first version listed in the registry. # # Input: # options - Hash of any of the following options: # :waitTime - Time to wait for Firefox to start. By default it waits for 2 seconds. # This is done because if Firefox is not started and we try to connect # to jssh on port 9997 an exception is thrown. # :profile - The Firefox profile to use. If none is specified, Firefox will use # the last used profile. # :suppress_launch_process - do not create a new firefox process. Connect to an existing one. # TODO: Start the firefox version given by user. So I finally started digging…apparently, if you just pass a :profile => “example_profile” to the browser.new function, it should load that profile. This would be perfect if coupled with a script that checked to see if a profile existed for whatever app you’re running, and if it doesn’t exist, creates a basic one, then continues on to launching the browser.

# Description:
# Starts the firefox browser.
# On windows this starts the first version listed in the registry.
#
# Input:
# options – Hash of any of the following options:
# :waitTime – Time to wait for Firefox to start. By default it waits for 2 seconds.
# This is done because if Firefox is not started and we try to connect
# to jssh on port 9997 an exception is thrown.
# :profile – The Firefox profile to use. If none is specified, Firefox will use
# the last used profile.
# :suppress_launch_process – do not create a new firefox process. Connect to an existing one.

# TODO: Start the firefox version given by user.

]]> By: dchuk http://www.stanleyshilov.com/blog/how-to-run-multiple-firefox-instances/comment-page-1/#comment-1371 dchuk Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:53:06 +0000 http://www.stanleyshilov.com/?p=192#comment-1371 You'll be my hero if you can make this all happen in Ruby and extend the Browser.new function to allow you to choose a profile upon launch... You’ll be my hero if you can make this all happen in Ruby and extend the Browser.new function to allow you to choose a profile upon launch…

]]> By: How to build Firefox 3.5+ with JSSH on Ubuntu 9.10 64bit – Stanley Shilov – Web Development, SEO and SEM - Blog Archive http://www.stanleyshilov.com/blog/how-to-run-multiple-firefox-instances/comment-page-1/#comment-1197 How to build Firefox 3.5+ with JSSH on Ubuntu 9.10 64bit – Stanley Shilov – Web Development, SEO and SEM - Blog Archive Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:11:21 +0000 http://www.stanleyshilov.com/?p=192#comment-1197 [...] from any existing Firefox installation you might have already had. I would recommend creating a separate Firefox profile to use for this [...] [...] from any existing Firefox installation you might have already had. I would recommend creating a separate Firefox profile to use for this [...]

]]> By: Jack Harris http://www.stanleyshilov.com/blog/how-to-run-multiple-firefox-instances/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Jack Harris Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:23:43 +0000 http://www.stanleyshilov.com/?p=192#comment-447 Thanks for this Stanley. Do you know how to copy one profile to another? Thanks for this Stanley. Do you know how to copy one profile to another?

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