On Mon, 5 May 2008 at 21:39, "Karl Bowden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Melissa Draper wrote: > > > Dave Hall wrote: > > >> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:59 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > > >>> Does anyone know a way to stop Firefox asking about installing > > >>> missing plugins? Facebook is driving me nuts since they switched > > >>> their status app to Flash, since i'm on 64-bit Gutsy. > > >> > > >> You could install FlashBlock - http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ even > > >> though I have flash working on AMD64, it cuts down the amount of > > >> bandwidth pointless crappy flash wastes > > > > > > noscript ( www.noscript.org ) gets rid of the javascript muck as well > > > as the flash stuff, and allows rules by domain/subdomain/etc. > > > > OK - next question: is there a solution for 64-bit platforms which will > > allow me to run a 32-bit and a 64-bit browser simultaneously? I usually > > have 40 to 50 tabs across 5-10 different windows open at once, and i > > can't afford to stop running my 64-bit browser just to run a Flash site > > in my 32-bit browser. > > You can install both firefox 32bit and firefox 64bit alongside each > other. Just make sure if you run them both at once, you start it with > the --no-remote option.
You're better off isolating different instances of Firefox to their own
profiles, so that they don't tread on each other's toes. Start Firefox with
the "-ProfileManager" option to manually select/create profiles. Once
created, you can start Firefox directly with a particular profile with
the "-no-remote -P <profilename>" parameter.
This is also great for segregating your browsing for different purposes (work,
play, testing, etc.). I keep multiple Firefox profiles, each with their own
settings, saved sessions, plug-ins, etc. I use the Foxmarks extension to
synchronise bookmarks between them. If I was more trusting, I might use
Google Browser Sync to share more than just bookmarks.
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