Windows 10 "Open with" Menu Confuses Multiple instances of the same program

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I have a portable and an installed instance of the same internet browser, Firefox. I am trying to make Windows register both Firefox instances to the Open With program list in the context menu of the file. The file I'm trying to open is a pdf. When I try to choose the program to open with by manually navigating to the program path, it ignores what I choose and just opens with the first Firefox instance registered to the menu. A possible workaround is changing one of the browser executable names to something like firefox2.exe, but I don't want a solution. I have tried giving full path in the re

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