What's the easiest way to open two instances of an application?
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I'm relatively new to Macs after being on PC's for the last twenty years.
Question: What's the easiest way to open two instances of an application? Once an application is open the right-click does not display Open, and doing a standard Google search the only solutions I'm finding involve scripting and command lines (hint: Don't comment with a link to a script or command line). I'm hoping there is an easier solution.
Thanks.
Jim
I'm relatively new to Macs after being on PC's for the last twenty years.
Question: What's the easiest way to open two instances of an application? Once an application is open the right-click does not display Open, and doing a standard Google search the only solutions I'm finding involve scripting and command lines (hint: Don't comment with a link to a script or command line). I'm hoping there is an easier solution.
Thanks.
Jim
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What application are you trying to open twice? With most applications, you can just open two documents or two windows and this give you the same effect as opening two instances of the application.
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I wanted to pull this off with Chrome (UI app left side, instructions url right side) and DbVisualizer (two different SQL scripts on each side), but the responses above give me enough info to reset my expectations.
With PC's it's as easy as right-click: Open to open a second instance, and I was hoping there was similar functionality for Macs.
Thanks.
Jim
With PC's it's as easy as right-click: Open to open a second instance, and I was hoping there was similar functionality for Macs.
Thanks.
Jim
How about running Windows Chrome with WINE? You'll have all the functionality of Windows Chrome in your Mac. I do that sometimes when I don't want to run a full blown VM. I haven't tried it with chrome yet, but I do know that firefox and palemoon work just fine in wine.
You can install wine with either Fink, MacPorts or Homebrew. Once installed you can create a script to start chrome and you'll just have to click on it. You'll then be runing a Windows version of Chrome and you can do what you want.
You can install wine with either Fink, MacPorts or Homebrew. Once installed you can create a script to start chrome and you'll just have to click on it. You'll then be runing a Windows version of Chrome and you can do what you want.