Can we run firefox and Nightly simultaneously?

Question

When I start nightly, new window of firefox is starts again, so I have to close firefox and start nightly, then if I open firefox Nightly's new window opens. What I am asking is can I run them both simultaneously?

Answer 1

I think the main problem is that the executable 'firefox' is placed in /usr/bin/ for both. Take a look at this link: http://www.ghacks.net/2011/08/23/how-to-run-firefox-stable-beta-aurora-and-nightly-simultaneously/

Answer 2

There are several ways of running to instances of Firefox simultaneously described in the Mozilla wiki:

You can either export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 and start firefox (like MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox or export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1; firefox) or use the -no-remote argument like firefox -no-remote.

To automatically do this on every login, you can add the export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 line to your shells profile file (like ~/.bash_profile).