不，很显然我并非吃饱了撑的。什么情况下你会想要同时运行多个不同 profile 的 Firefox 呢？比如：
1、需要为一个站点保存不同的 cookies；
2、扩展太多，为特定任务分别安装不同扩展来加快 Firefox 运行速度；
3、多人共用机器的时候。
实现这个目的很容易，为快捷方式加上”no-remote”参数然后用”profile”参数指定不同配置文件夹即可。每个快捷方式对应一个 profile 。
详细内容请参考下文。
For a detailed English version of this article, you can refer to http://dengkefu.com/boke/internet/application/how-to-run-different-firefox-profiles-simultaneously-the-easy-way.html
Seriously, there’re times when you need to run different Firefox instances with respective profiles. If you ever encountered one of the scenarios below, you probably need to read this.
The Reasons
The Solution
There are instructions on solving this problem with the Profile Manager plugin, such as this tutorial by Ross McKillop. However, what I’m going to describe here is a simpler solution.
All set & start to enjoy two Firefox instances at the some. You’ll see that the whole point of this method is the command line argument "no-remote", which enables Firefox to run with multiple profiles. You can find an incomplete list of Firefox command line arguments here.
In the first part of the story, I introduced an SNS extension which resides at the left side of Firefox. Here in this post, I’m going to bring you another extension takes over the right side: Juice.
Juice is an intelligent discovery engine that integrates seamlessly with Firefox. It has features like:
Highlight and move a chunk of text, and Juice directly delivers a set of rich, relevant content to you.
Drag & Drop
It’s easy to use Juice and feel its magic. Just grab a chunk of text, image or video and Juice will start performing its tricks. When dropping text into Juice, Juice will try to understand its meaning and serve you with context-relevant information. In the case of images or videos, it will let you store them for later viewing, while you keep browsing just the way you like!
Intelligent Discovery Engine
The developers didn’t use the term search here in order to distinguish Juice from other search engines. Juice digs into the keywords and looks for more info in various formats.
Juice’s discovery mechanism is grounded on Linkool Labs‘ proprietary intelligent discovery engine. This engine, comprised of a natural language processing system and a dictionary management system, helps to evolve the semantic web by connecting keywords with the most relevant, rich content from third-party web services.
Discover & Organize
The use these two words as a combination not individuals, just like Drag & Drop. Because you can bookmark and organize rich content discovered for you! For example, when Juice delivers a video to you, you can simply add the video into your personal video playlist – for current or future viewing! You can also do this with the videos and images you discover yourself while browsing the web, by dragging the image or tab attached to the videos.
Take a look at the video below to see how Juice works as if by magic:
This article is part 2 of the 2-part series Make Full Use of Your Firefox Side Space, discussing excellent Firefox extensions to fill out the side spaces of wide-screen monitor. For part 1 of the series, refer to Yoono – SNS All in One in Your Firefox Sidebar.
If you’re using a wide-screen monitor as I am, you probably want to take advantage of the extra space generated by the 16:9 (or 16:10) ratio, especially when you’re browsing websites because most of them are designed with a fixed width. Hence Yoono, a browser extension filling the blank spaces with interesting features to monitor your friends’ activities, letting you make quick response and interact with them.
Strictly speaking, Yoono does not take over the sidebar space or resides in the sidebar, and it is just positioned at the left side of your Firefox, which means, normal sidebar elements like “Bookmarks” and “History” can be shown with Yoono at the same time.
There’re a bunch of widgets that you can use to integrate almost everything into Yoono, including:
Friends to
Supported networks & IM: facebook, myspace, imeem, twitter, flickr, friendfeed, piczo, msn, aim, gtalk, yahoo.
Discoveries to
Web Notes to
Videos to
Photos to
Music to
News to
Supported: googlereader, digg
Mail to
Supported: gmail, yahoo
Shopping to
This article is part 1 of the 2-part series Make Full Use of Your Firefox Side Space, discussing excellent Firefox extensions to fill out the side spaces of wide-screen monitor. For part 2 of the series, refer to Juice – Intelligent Discovery Engine in Your Firefox Sidebar.
Occasionally, you’ll want to use Firefox in another language instead of the one you’re speaking currently. How do you achieve that without reinstalling Firefox? I’m trying to answer this question and talk about related concepts such as locale and language packs.
When you encounter this problem and you google around, you’ll probably notice a Firefox preference general.useragent.locale quickly. Then you change the value of this parameter as what is told, but nothing happens when you restart Firefox.
Why’s that? To find out the reason, we have to dig deeper into the concept user agent and locale. The user agent string is a piece of text which identifies the name and version of a given browser. It is used by websites to determine which browser you use. That is to say, the user agent is your browser’s identity. The current locale in use by Mozilla is stored in the preference general.useragent.locale, and a variety of components consult it for localization information. Remember when you visit YouTube for the first time and the page prompts you for the language you are using intelligently? Oh yeah, that’s the magic generated by our user agent string. You get it now, simply altering this preference just changes how your browser identifies itself, not necessarily its appearance.
Hence what you need essentially to get a different UI language is the language pack, besides changing this preference. A language pack is an extension that changes the language of the user interface in a Mozilla application. Alternatively, you can assign a different user-interface language to each command or icon that you use to start the Mozilla application. For example, to use French you can specify either: -uilocale fr or -uilocale fr-FR. On a Windows system the entire command might look something like:
C:Program FilesMozillaThunderbirdthunderbird.exe -uilocale fr
To download the language packs, visit
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/your-firefox-version/win32/xpi
In my case, that is
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.5/win32/xpi
Image via Wikipedia
Firefox is one of the best browsers ever, but its promotion in my country is a total disaster. I said there are 2 reasons why I hate Firefox, but I didn’t go further into reason no.2 – promotion. Since with the latest release of Firefox 3, the startup time is greatly improved. I feel like I should discuss about the promotion problem of Firefox. The situation is way much worse than you could imagine.
Localized or disorganized? The dilemma of Firefox.
As the biggest threat to IE, Firefox is excellent with its convenience and extendibility. However, influenced by historical factors, the market share of Firefox is relevantly so low, in which case, the promotion of it becomes an essential job.
Google and Mozilla became strategic partners in 2005. Since then Google took the promotion job by advertising Firefox with Google Toolbar in Adsense, and Firefox went into a highway spreading all over the net.
Most things localized in my country are always customized with “The Features”, and Firefox is no exception. Because the promotion is so profitable, some web masters start to play “tricks” in order to make more money out of it. The tricks include fraud or threatening on their web pages, e.g. “IE sucks, if you don’t use Firefox, your computer will be so vulnerable and defenseless to attacks”, blah blah blah. Some even hide their contents with JavaScript to IE users.
Losing not only money, but also reputation.
Promoting Firefox like this does great harm to the reputation of Google and Mozilla. Let’s make the further analysis of the phenomenon described above.
Basically, we may divide users into three types:
As to user type 1, if one doesn’t know anything about Firefox and can’t tell the difference between browsers, they don’t even care! Consequently, the ads are in vain.
User type 2 is the largest part. However, this way of promotion suggests rogue software to users of this kind, because they have the idea of what Internet or Firefox is. Promoting this way does nothing but lower the reputation of Google and Mozilla.
For user type 3, they are proficients, if I may say so. Ads can’t change their viewpoints over something. Now that they are already Firefox users, the promotion doesn’t work either.
Healthy development, the way Firefox should be in.
Firefox is an excellent software with the most promising prospects in the open source world. I sincerely hope that Mozilla and Google will clear out the promotional environment as soon as possible, for the healthy, rapid and sustainable development of Firefox.
Image via Wikipedia
I said I was a fan of Firefox in the article showing massive updates of Firefox plugins. Yep, and I still am. No, I didn’t plan to give up using it. I’m not playing around here. The truth is, although I hate Firefox in some aspects, it doesn’t keep me from using it. There is an old Chinese saying that “one rails badly at what he loves most”. That’s a proper description of me and Firefox.
Nothing is perfect, and Firefox is not an exception either. Below are 2 critical matters about Firefox, which Mozilla should improve in my opinion.
As to the browser itself, Firefox is a great program with quantities of powerful extensions. And I just wish it could get better. By the way, are you ready for Firefox 3? It’s coming in no time!
Preface
Once I thought I could not write without Windows Live Writer, but I was wrong. I would not give up WLW just because I did not have the reason to. And now, here comes the very reason: zemanta. Since zemanta only works in a browser, I have to stop using WLW.
What is zemanta?
Zemanta is a browser-based extension which makes your blogging easy and creative. There are 2 types of it available: a Firefox extension or a WordPress (or other blogging platforms) plugin. Zemanta will help you blog in so many ways, including automatically searches for the related links, tags, pictures and articles according to what you’re writing currently. Using zemanta to blog
For more info read the FAQ or watch the screencast.
Pros and cons?
We do everything based on some counting nowadays. Usually, the list becomes long and the decision is hard to make, but not for this one.
Where can I get it?
Image by leorolim via Flickr
This is not an common scene we could see everyday. Maybe it’s not a big deal for you, but for me, it is. With only a few plugins installed in my Firefox, I’ve never seen that many plugins updated at the same time before. (“that many” means three. ^^)
I know, I know, you all have already got the news that Firefox 3 is going to be available at 17th, June. I just can’t help feeling so excited about it, because I’m using Firefox 2 currently. I’ve tried a beta version of Firefox 3 re-encapsulated by PortableApps, and it works just fine. These are several features you should know about it. However, being a perfectionist, I prefer a more stable version for long term usage.
By the way, Mozilla is holding an event for Firefox 3 named “Download Day“, the purpose of which is to set a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. If you’re a Firefox fan just like me, feel free to join us and spread it, then enjoy the web!
当你在Vista系统下装好了Firefox，却发现似乎flash插件装不上……点击“安装缺失的插件”按钮、按照向导提示操作、重启Firefox，但是插件仍然没装上。烦死啦！
多次重复上述步骤根本没用，其实你可以通过简单几步来手动安装插件。
注：这个方法是通用的，可用于安装其它任何插件。
在Vista系统下手动安装Flash插件
首先你需要下载插件文件，可以右键点击以下链接然后“另存为”。
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi
下载完成后重命名文件的扩展名为zip：
双击解压该文件，因为xpi文件实际上就是zip文件重命名后得到的。
现在你需要从解压所得的文件中拷贝两个，到另外两个目录中的一个，选择哪个目录取决于你想为本机所有用户安装该插件，还是只为当前用户安装。
需要拷贝的文件是这两个：
为所有用户安装
在到下面的路径中找到Firefox的插件安装目录：
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins
注：如果你使用的是64位Vista系统，路径中会包含(x86)字样（如下图）；若你使用的是便携版的Firefox，插件目录的具体路径会有所区别，但目录结构是一样的，所以你可以自行查找确定位置。
粘贴上述两个文件至该目录下（其间会有UAC提示），然后重启Firefox即可。
仅为当前用户安装
如果你没有当前所用机器的管理权限，或者你只想为当前账号安装插件，那么找到下面的路径：
%APPDATA%\Mozilla
在Mozilla目录下创建名为“Plugins”的目录（如果该目录不存在）：
然后粘贴上述两个文件至Plugins目录并重启Firefox即可。
验证安装效果
你可以在地址栏输入about:plugins以查看插件是否被正确加载：
当然，最简单的验证方法是查看之前无法正常观看的页面。 =)
原作者：The Geek
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