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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Rather than make a pre-emptive strike against Chrome as my calibre-library browser, I'll wait for the version 3.0 release - unless you tell me that Chrome won't work with it  |
Since you've mentioned using Firefox as your primary browser, I'll make a different suggestion - use Firefox.
The trick is that you aren't limited to one Firefox instance.
When you install Firefox, it installs in two parts in two locations. The actual program code goes in a system directory intended for such things. In Windows, that will be a subdirectory of Program Files. But your personal data, like your bookmarks, history, installed extensions, and customization go into a profile directory. Where this is will vary by OS and OS version. Firefox will create a default profile for you there when you install it, but you aren't limited to it.
If you run Firefox in Profile Manager mode (firefox -p), you'll get the dialog that will let you create a profile, give it a name, and specify where it will be created. You can then run Firefox using that profile, with "firefox -p <profilename>" I've found it convenient to have different Firefox profiles customized for different tasks.
You can have more than one instance if Firefox active at a time, as long as each uses a different profile. (The first Firefox instance to use a profile locks it.) To have two instances open at a time, add the -no-remote directive to the command line, like "firefox -no-remote -p <profilename>"
So you can have a Firefox instance customized to communicate with Calibre Server at the same time you have a production instance running for standard browsing.
(I actually have my Firefox profile on a ramdisk. I made a zip archive of my desired profile, which unzips to the ramdisk. I used Profile Manager to create a profile that would use it, pointing to the version on the ramdisk as the profile location. "firefox -p ramdisk" runs FF using the ramdisk profile. The copy on the ramdisk gets zipped back when I'm done to catch changes made in that session. Works fine, and is
quick.)
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Dennis