Installing Firefox Manually

[Jim Carlock]

Does anyone know where to find some help on installing Firefox
manually (i.e. without the setup.exe file)?

Thank you for any help.

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Jim Carlock
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[nrth...@gmail.com]

Jim Carlock wrote:
> Does anyone know where to find some help on installing Firefox
> manually (i.e. without the setup.exe file)?

For Firefox 1.5.0.x, setup.exe can be unpacked with any 7-zip aware
archive program, giving a bunch of xpi files. If you extract those
(with anything zip aware) you'll get a bin/ dir which is basically the
same as what the old zip files were. Just ignore the multiple
install.js - they aren't needed. Obviously this doesn't set any
registry keys, but uninstalling is as simple as deleting the folder.

Alternatively, Portable Firefox might be useful to you:
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/browsers/portable_firefox

[Jim Carlock]

nrthomas posted:
> Unpack the Firefox 1.5.0.x setup.exe (a 7-zip zipped file).
> This presents a bunch of xpi files. If you extract those (with
> zip aware software) you get a bin folder... Ignore all install.js
> files - not needed. This fails to configure the registry keys but

> uninstalling is as simple as deleting the folder.
>
> Alternatively, Portable Firefox might be useful to you:
> http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/browsers/portable_firefox

Thanks, nrthomas.

I unpacked the .exe when I first started messing with it. It
started out as some difficulties running two different versions
of Firefox. Firefox seems to check for something... it's not so
much a mutex, but if version 1.00 runs, and you start up 1.5,
you end up running 1.00 as so proclaimed by the app that
runs.

The registry entries provide a way to start a specific Firefox
version which ends up as a Windows limitation. I know a
way to fix this limitation but it's ugly and means developing
an app to present a selection of choices and run the selected
choice. I put the concept of a window running as a menu for
selecting which application to run, into the public domain (if
possible to protect the idea from patents, Microsoft's right-
click kind of does this already, but I'm advancing it as an
executable application or other library that responds to a left
click, middle-click, or other click, and runs as a service or
driver or other type of software/firmware/hardware that runs
when an operating system starts).

So there's some kind of versioning mutexing going on.

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Jim Carlock
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[Robert Strong]

Jim Carlock wrote:
> I unpacked the .exe when I first started messing with it. It
> started out as some difficulties running two different versions
> of Firefox. Firefox seems to check for something... it's not so
> much a mutex, but if version 1.00 runs, and you start up 1.5,
> you end up running 1.00 as so proclaimed by the app that
> runs.

Read up on MOZ_NO_REMOTE but be sure to read up on it before using it
since this has limitations in regards to the profiles that are used.
http://www.google.com/search?q=MOZ_NO_REMOTE