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I installed mozila aurora when I already have firefox on my computer. But every time when i turn on one of them it check compatibility with add-ons, and opens a page just like i am dowenloaded firefox now. so,i know that i need to create another profile,i did it,but now both [Firefox and Aurora] work on the same profile.so how can i change the profile? (sorry for my english)

I installed mozila aurora when I already have firefox on my computer. But every time when i turn on one of them it check compatibility with add-ons, and opens a page just like i am dowenloaded firefox now. so,i know that i need to create another profile,i did it,but now both [Firefox and Aurora] work on the same profile.so how can i change the profile? (sorry for my english)

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For help, refer to this article:

Using The Profile Manager

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You might find this KB article helpful, too.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_multiple_profiles_-_Firefox

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yes,but how can i make that firefox use x profile and aurora use y profile?

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ok.i go to the command line argument [windows-run] and what do i need to write there? the profile name? do it when aurora is open?

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wow ok thx!! i understand. one little more question can i remove the old shortcut?

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all works but now i have another problem:when i want to update aurora it says: update could not be installed Please make sure there are no other copies of Firefox running on your computer what can i do?

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Forget using the command line in the Windows -> Run box, you'd have to type there each time. Assuming that you created a desktop shortcut already, try something like this in the Target line of a Firefox desktop shortcut

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Aurora 25\firefox.exe" -p "Profile Name"

You would need to add a space -p another space and then the name of the new Profile, to what automatically appears in the Target line.

Example is here- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Shortcut_to_a_specific_profile , which was linked from both page that I hyperlinked before.

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THX! About the update in aurora its all works now. but i downloaded aurora in 8/19 and i check for update and i have an update. It's every time updated like that? day after day? [I promise you-this is the last question]

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Yes, Aurora receives daily updates, when there is a "check-in" of new or changed code from the last time Aurora was "built". After all, it is an alpha development version, but 6 weeks advanced in the development stage from the Nightly builds on the same day.

Every new Firefox version spends 6 weeks in the Nightly channel, then 6 weeks in Aurora, followed by 6 weeks in Beta before becoming the new Release version.

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ok. thank you very much!

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Firefox on the Aurora channel stops updating for a few days when a new Firefox version is released to allow the tree to stabilize when moving to the next Aurora version.

The Beta version currently gets two updates a week apart from the first week (week 1) and last week (week 6) when only one update is released.