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Can I have muliple instances of Firefox on the desktop -- like one icon for email, one for Tropicalglen, one for Amazon?

Len42
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In the "old days" of OS2, you could create a Copy of a program and it would act independently of the original ("shortcuts" were also possible, but it acted just like its original). In Firefox, I would create a "copy" that when clicked would go to TropicalGlen.com for music. I could have another copy of Firefox that would, when double-clicked, go to my gmail,com account. I knew this process as "Object Oriented Programming." I'm running both Windows Vista Home and Windows 8.1.

In the "old days" of OS2, you could create a Copy of a program and it would act independently of the original ("shortcuts" were also possible, but it acted just like its original). In Firefox, I would create a "copy" that when clicked would go to TropicalGlen.com for music. I could have another copy of Firefox that would, when double-clicked, go to my gmail,com account. I knew this process as "Object Oriented Programming." I'm running both Windows Vista Home and Windows 8.1.

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See this support article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/create-desktop-shortcut-website

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cor-el
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You can add the URL of a website to the target field of a Firefox desktop shortcut.

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See this support article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/create-desktop-shortcut-website