How to install a second Vivaldi

[code3]

I want two installations of stable and one snapshot, but couldn’t find good instructions anywhere.

[Pesala]

@code3 Install the Snapshot as a Standalone Version so that it does not interfere with your settings for the Stable release.

[TbGbe]

@Pesala He's on Linux - Stable and Snapshot are separate anyway.

@code3 Do you mean you want two installations of Stable on one PC?

[A Former User]

What’s the point of having two Stables?

[Priest72]

@potmeklecbohdan i believe the original poster meant an installation of both snapshot and stable which would constitute 2 separate installs.
Just a grammatical error.

[A Former User]

@Priest72 Given the explicit ‘two’ and ‘one’, I don’t think it is an error.

[code3]

No, no I did mean two stables. One for testing. If you think that’s a bad idea, maybe I could switch to snapshot and use my existing stable for testing. But, I would need an easy way to bring user data from stable to snapshot.

[TbGbe]

@code3 The Stable version is intended for "general use"; the Snapshot version is used for testing.

You could consider using sync to transfer "user data" sync help

[A Former User]

@code3 Moving data from Stable to Snapshot can be done by simply renaming/copying ~/.config/vivaldi to ~/.config/vivaldi-snapshot (you should never (with an exception right after a x.x Stable release) use this method to move data from Snapshot to Stable).

[code3]

@TbGbe Okay...
So, I would like a stable for general use, a snapshot for testing latest features, and an unmodified stable for testing before submitting a mod or bug report.

[A Former User]

@code3 That’s practically nonsense. How can you test latest features while using the Stable?

[code3]

@Gwen-Dragon Thanks! I thought someone would have already done this! That looks like what I want.

[code3]

@potmeklecbohdan said in How to install a second Vivaldi:

@code3 That’s practically nonsense. How can you test latest features while using the Stable?

Not test latest features, test mods and bugs!

[A Former User]

@code3 I was asking coz

a stable for general use, a snapshot for testing latest features

[code3]

@potmeklecbohdan said in How to install a second Vivaldi:

@code3 Moving data from Stable to Snapshot can be done by simply renaming/copying ~/.config/vivaldi to ~/.config/vivaldi-snapshot (you should never (with an exception right after a x.x Stable release) use this method to move data from Snapshot to Stable).

Thanks! I wasn’t sure if that would break anything.

[code3]

@potmeklecbohdan I know.