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I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.6

I'm a member of a website under 2 different usernames. 1 is a player
account the other is an admin account.

Can I run FF so that I can keep both logged in eg under 2 seperate
profiles or do I have to set them up under two different user accounts
on Windows XP?

dino wrote:
> I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.6
>
> I'm a member of a website under 2 different usernames. 1 is a player
> account the other is an admin account.
>
> Can I run FF so that I can keep both logged in eg under 2 seperate
> profiles or do I have to set them up under two different user accounts
> on Windows XP?

A lot of that will depend upon how the website maintains a record of who
is/is not logged on. It would seem probable that it uses either a
cookie or a session cookie. If that is the case, I know different
profiles maintain separate cookie files. Can't say for certain
regarding session cookies. I believe that the session cookie is still
stores in your cookie file; it's just that it is deleted when you sign off.

Trial and error says that you can run the profile manager when you
already have a Firefox session active, so it doesn't look like you can
easily be logged into both accounts in two different windows, if that's
what you were trying to do.

dino wrote:
> I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.6
>
> I'm a member of a website under 2 different usernames. 1 is a player
> account the other is an admin account.
>
> Can I run FF so that I can keep both logged in eg under 2 seperate
> profiles or do I have to set them up under two different user accounts
> on Windows XP?

you can only have 1 instance of firefox running at a time.
So, what you want to do is log in with one, then you have to
log out, close FF and restart with another profile.

That being said, there is a way to get two instances of FF
running at the same time. In order to do this, you would
have to set up something called an environment variables and
you'd have to know what you're doing.

Set the EV to MOZ_NO_REMOTE to 1

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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> dino wrote:
>> I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.6
>>
>> I'm a member of a website under 2 different usernames. 1 is a player
>> account the other is an admin account.
>>
>> Can I run FF so that I can keep both logged in eg under 2 seperate
>> profiles or do I have to set them up under two different user accounts
>> on Windows XP?
>
> you can only have 1 instance of firefox running at a time. So, what you
> want to do is log in with one, then you have to log out, close FF and
> restart with another profile.
>
> That being said, there is a way to get two instances of FF running at
> the same time. In order to do this, you would have to set up something
> called an environment variables and "you'd have to know what you're doing".
>
> Set the EV to MOZ_NO_REMOTE to 1
>
And there lies my problem

Sounds like the easiest thing to do is set up a new user under Windows
XP for the least used account and see if that works instead. Otherwise
I'll end up using a different browser for one of the accounts and I
don't really want to have to do that

> > Can I run FF so that I can keep both logged in eg under 2 seperate
> > profiles or do I have to set them up under two different user accounts
> > on Windows XP?

maybe


> you can only have 1 instance of firefox running at a time.

false.

websearch: MOZ_NO_REMOTE



> Set the EV to MOZ_NO_REMOTE to 1

I really should read the entire post before replying.


There are several ways of using MOZ_NO_REMOTE in your batch files.
Its on you to determine which way to set the variable first or after
loading etc etc [insert flame war here]

websearch: MOZ_NO_REMOTE batch


eg

set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
start firefox.exe -profile Admin
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=0
....



websearch: xp batch files

> > Can I run FF so that I can keep both logged in eg under 2 seperate
> > profiles or do I have to set them up under two different user accounts
> > on Windows XP?

maybe


> you can only have 1 instance of firefox running at a time.

false.

websearch: MOZ_NO_REMOTE



> Set the EV to MOZ_NO_REMOTE to 1

I really should read the entire post before replying.


There are several ways of using MOZ_NO_REMOTE in your batch files.
Its on you to determine which way to set the variable first or after
loading etc etc [insert flame war here]

websearch: MOZ_NO_REMOTE batch


eg

set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
start firefox.exe -profile Admin
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=0
....



websearch: xp batch files

beat that horse some more
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1783909