Can I have Firefox Standalone and Firefox Microsoft Store installed together and open at same time?
Hi.
For several reasons I use two or three browsers. Firefox for pretty much everything since always. Chrome as second browser and Edge just because I can't uninstall the motherf@cker. So I set it with all cookies and trackers allowed, no adblocker etc, for when I want to check a website raw.
Long story short, I'd like to get rid of Chrome. I don't like any other. Only Opera a bit. But when I've seen that Firefox is also in Microsoft Store, I thought "what if I use the two versions at same time? The Store one and the direct-download one?
Possible?
Alle svar (4)
You probably won't be able to download both versions because the codes would be repeated and only change to be available by both means. and to get rid of chrome just go to control panel(you can search for it in home)->programs->programs and features and select chrome and press uninstall.
"codes would be repeated and only change to be available by both means" Can you elaborate on that? I really don't understand what you mean.
What I see is that the download works well, and I have two Firefox now in the list of programs, and when I open the new one (the one I downloaded from Microsoft) it does not have my Mozilla account logged in, history, etc. Seems like they are two separate things, so it should work, but I want to be sure by asking the experts here before I have surprises later.
I don't think that would cause problems as they install differently (MS installs the MSIX version) and use their own profile folder, but to be sure you can download Firefox from the Mozilla server and do a custom install.
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/custom-installation-firefox-on-windows
If you can't run them at the same time, then add the -no-remote parameter to the target line of the Mozilla version.
cor-el said
I don't think that would cause problems as they install differently (MS installs the MSIX version)
Yeah it seems stable. The new guy did sneakily manage to establish itself as default browser, no idea how, but I changed it back.
A question, what do you mean from Mozilla server? What is different from the Firefox that I download from there vs the one that I download from: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ ?
I always do custom for anything I install, because I want control over all options. What was your thought here, that I should tell Firefox to install in a different location than the default one to avoid that they, despite being different, install in the same folder?
Give me a moment. Ok, yeah, I searched in C: and found that the Store version installs in: "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps"
I guess I am safe.