Running Mozilla Without Trashing Netscape
Installation
This document explains how to run mozilla.exe separately from
netscape.exe without trashing your regular installation of Netscape
Communicator. This is necessary if, for example, you want to use Communicator's
mail client while you work on Mozilla development.
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Before running mozilla.exe, create a new user profile either from
a Netscape 4.0x installation using the "User Profile Manager" shortcut
in the Utilities folder (on Windows) or by using the -new_account
option on the command line of either netscape.exe or mozilla.exe.
We suggest calling the profile "mozilla."
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Always use that new account when running mozilla.exe, and never
run netscape.exe using that same account profile.
To make things easier, you can start the application with the user account
on the command line, for example:
This assures that prefs and the cache will not interfere between the two
versions. This will be especially
important as new prefs are added to the Mozilla product. Note that
you must use quotes around the name and there can be no space between the
"P" and the profile name. Otherwise, the application won't catch the profile
switch, and it will try to load the profile name as the initial URL.
You can copy your bookmark.htm file from an existing profile
to your new profile directory if you want to share bookmarks.
After the initial 3/31 release, we will add some code to Mozilla to
prevent running with a profile that is already being used by netscape.exe.
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