Running Both 5.5sp and 5.1.3 Concurrently?

[MinutiaeMan]

I was wondering if it would be possible to run both the current OW stable release and the sneaky peek at the same time — or at the very least, rename the old app package to something like "OmniWeb 5.1.3.app". The reason is that I want to continue using the sneaky peek for most of my stuff (since it's mostly functional), but there's a major missing feature or a bug — I can't get any of my RSS feeds to update! So instead of reverting to 5.1.3, I'd like to use it just for the feeds (for now).

Would it cause a problem to have two versions of OmniWeb accessing the same application support files separately? I'm guessing that both versions running simultaneously would be a bad idea, but it never hurts to ask first...

[troyb]

I actually run 5.5 and 5.1.3 simultaneously pretty much all day long without too much trouble. Just remember that only one copy can access the history index at a time, you'll get a warning about this when launching the second copy, just choose "Disable Index".

[MinutiaeMan]

Sweet! That'll make things easier. BTW, is my RSS issue a bug, or a missing feature? (I also posted a separate thread in the bugs forum.)

[bethkatz17582]

This is good to know when I need to do something in OW5.1.3 (like printing). I've been quitting OW5.5sp4 to do stuff, but I definitely prefer OW5.5. My husband was impressed with how fast it displayed our school's course registration system. Much snappier performance.

[Rachael]

another thing to watch out for is that both OW's are writing to the same workspace files, so they can overwrite eachother's changes!

[teorema67]

I had always running only the great betas of OW. Actually I did already delete OW 5.1.3 :rolleyes: