Multiple instances of Google talk and Firefox

Firefox and Google talk are two apps which I cannot really manage without...but then what do you do if you share your PC with someone else? Maybe someone else at home. Each of us have our own collection of bookmarks, addons and of course logins. So you would need to get Firefox and Gtalk to run multiple instances. The secret to running them is to use Firefox's in built profile manager. We need to invoke the profile manager by changing the shortcut path on your desktop. Ideally, the target looks like this "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" Change it to

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -profilemanager.

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"  -no-remote -profilemanager

"C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

Mozilla Weave 0.2

Are you using Firefox? I presume you are. If not, discontinue reading this post. This post is for all those firefox worshippers out there, who have multiple Firefoxes running around the web. A sneak preview at the latest from the secret labs of Mozilla. We have our history, our preferences, our bookmarks, history, passwords and everything on one PC and then try to replicate the bookmarks again on our firefox on another PC. What do we do about the history. Imagine browsing last nite from home and then coming home and searching for that website you browsed the previous night. Here is your solution. Mozilla's offical labs product, WEAVE.

Firefox 3 reviewed

The release of thunderror.com coincides with the download day of firefox 3, the browser. So I decided that the first blog should be a review of this site. Mozilla has used clever marketing in packaging the downloads into a guiness world record. So, I decided to do my bit for the most downloads for a single software by downloading firefox 3 (7.15 MB windows installer) and installed it on my microsoft windows xp pc with an AMD athlon dual core processor running at 2.41 Ghz and 1GB of RAM. Decent specs for a browser test I presume. I had already beta tested Firefox RC1 (release candidate 1) and found that there wasn't much which has been changed. Firefox 3 of course being the final release is more polished and complete version of the earlier beta releases. The major changes from its earlier versions (v3 betas excluded) would be the auto suggest address bar. The redesigned navigation buttons, new advanced phishing and malware protection, site identification features which lets you identify whether the site you trust is trustworthy...Improved(tiny tweaks actually) download & bookmark manager. There is even a shortcut to your most visited websites on your bookmarks toolbar. Though I did not find anything radically different, still its a step in the evolution of a browser already so mature that it can handle anything that you throw at it. I have heard stories of firefox 3 crashing..but till date I haven't come across that problem with any of firefox's releases (and I started using firefox when it was called firebird) The auto suggest address bar is both a helpful as well as an irritating feature at times and if you do not like it. I suggest that you use this addon to remove it. The site identification and phishing features are good by being secure without being too intrusive when browsing. The password manager now popups on top of the website asking whether you wish to remember the name of the website without being too intrusive (again, this was a feature already available on flock) The download manager shows its status on the status bar, a very nifty feature. There are lot of other minor tweaks here and there as well which make browsing all the more comfortable. Site rendering and performance too has improved quite a lot... On the whole, even though firefox 3 is not a giant step for browsers, It still is a step in the right direction and I surely would recommend firefox 3 to anybody out there on the web. Get your copy here.