[Zope] Using Mozilla with Zope

[J Cameron Cooper]

Tim Edwards wrote:

>I am trying to switch to Mozilla due to IE6 being extremely buggy,
>especially when working through proxy servers. We are currently developing a
>Zope/Plone application which uses standard Zope authentication using an
>acl_users folder. To test this application I need to open a browser window
>onto it, loged-in as a user, however at the same time I also need to have
>another browser window open onto the ZMI logged in as a manager user so that
>I can edit the Scripts/ZPTs. 
>
>Doing this in IE6 is simply a matter of starting up 2 intances of it (ie.
>Not clicking File->New->Window to open the 2nd window). This seems to keep
>the authentication info. seperate. 
>
>I realise that this is a bit off-topic as it is more of a general
>web-browser question but I was hoping that some Zope users have had some
>experience using Mozilla during application development.
>
I usually use a Mozilla instance and a Mozilla Firebird instance (or 
sometimes even throw Konquerer in on the ZMI task).

Mozilla can have two instances going at the same time if you have two 
different profiles: see the Profile Manager. You can either always start 
Mozilla that way, or (I think) it'll give you a choice when you try to 
start a second time. I recall that the Windows installer makes an icon 
for the Profile Manager. On the command line you can just throw a 
'-ProfileManager' flag on.

I don't know if Mozilla's issues with multiple instances for the same 
profile are intrinsic or a feature.

       --jcc

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