Google Browser?
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Is there such thing as a google browser? Ok, I know there isn't, but here's the problem: I use Firefox, and I use gmail and google calendar, and I'd also use google reader, and possibly google docs and spreadsheets if the browser existed. So, What I'd like is a customised version of firefox that has tabs that only contain the google applications and doesn't register itself as a browser. Any new windows that are created are opened in another instance of firefox. To clear session state of other websites (and debugging asp.net apps), I wouldn't have to close the google browser, just the other instances of firefox (I have cookies set for only the firefox session). I could use opera or ie7 for google stuff and firefox for everything else, but then links wouldn't be opened in firefox (especially important if I'm using google reader). Does anybody have any ideas? Ta ChrisB
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Is there such thing as a google browser? Ok, I know there isn't, but here's the problem: I use Firefox, and I use gmail and google calendar, and I'd also use google reader, and possibly google docs and spreadsheets if the browser existed. So, What I'd like is a customised version of firefox that has tabs that only contain the google applications and doesn't register itself as a browser. Any new windows that are created are opened in another instance of firefox. To clear session state of other websites (and debugging asp.net apps), I wouldn't have to close the google browser, just the other instances of firefox (I have cookies set for only the firefox session). I could use opera or ie7 for google stuff and firefox for everything else, but then links wouldn't be opened in firefox (especially important if I'm using google reader). Does anybody have any ideas? Ta ChrisB
Firefox allows you to create multiple user profiles. Each profile contains its own settings (favorites, cookies, history, ...) You should be able to make 2 profiles and have the 'google' profile have all the pages as homepage See http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new[^] for user profile creation. Hope this helps
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Firefox allows you to create multiple user profiles. Each profile contains its own settings (favorites, cookies, history, ...) You should be able to make 2 profiles and have the 'google' profile have all the pages as homepage See http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new[^] for user profile creation. Hope this helps
Bert [Otherside82] Derijckere wrote:
make 2 profiles
Thanks for that, It seems like that might work, if I were able to run multiple profiles at once :confused:. Ok, after a bit of googling, I can open 2 profiles at once by putting the call to the google profile in a batch file:
@echo off
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
start "" "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -p "Google"
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=0Now I just need a method to open links in the default profile from the google profile. ChrisB