Pale Moon 32-bit and 64-bit profile sharing

[Herman Strange]

Somewhat related question - under Win7, do Pale Moon / 32 and Pale Moon /64 share profile information, cookies, cache, etc.? I'm rather hoping the answer is that they maintain their data independently, but wanted to check before I break something by attempting to use both simultaneously.

[Moonchild]

under Win7, do Pale Moon / 32 and Pale Moon /64 share profile information, cookies, cache, etc.?

Yes, they do share this information.

You might want to make sure you don't have both open at the same time.
I'm not 100% sure if the running process check actually catches a different architecture one running (I think it should, though!), but on the off chance it doesn't, it'd be best to make sure you close one before opening the other. Having both on the same system is certainly not a normal situation. If you do need to have both open at the same time, I suggest you install the desktop version of x64 (regular install) and use the portable version for the 32-bit one. You'll have complete separation in that case.

[diNovoM]

Or you will use different profiles - i am about to make a howto using multiple versions of FF/Palemoon meaning also different buildts and in x32/x64.

[Herman Strange]

Thanks for the confirmation on the shared data and the suggestion to try the portable version, will have to try that option, believe it might just work. For the reason behind this possibly unusual question, I often have four browsers open at the same time (Pale Moon, FireFox, Chrome, and MSIE) logged in to different systems under the same username but with different passwords and other credentials that get confused when attempting to run them in different tabs (or different windows) of the same browser. I'm wanting to get Chrome completely out of the mix because it crashes my system so often.

[diNovoM]

Just if you're interested - my HowTo on multiple FF/PM installations is online now.

[Herman Strange]

Thanks - will have to read that one closely. Tried simply installing Pale Moon Portable alongside Pale Moon 64 but found that if I start Pale Moon Portable while Pale Moon x64 is already open, Pale Moon Portable appears to still pick up the profile information from Pale Moon x64.

[Moonchild]

Ah yes, my suggestion was incomplete. You will have to edit the palemoon-portable.ini to uncomment the line:
MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 (remove the semicolon)

So it becomes:

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[Environment]
;(multiple istances)
MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

This will allow you to run them completely separately.
By default this is commented out because it interferes with file associations (which is used more often than running multiple copies of Pale Moon on a single system at the same time), but left in as a comment for a quick fix for this scenario.