Lazy Hacker Babble

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Running Firefox 2 and 3 together on OSX.

Posted by hsin on September 29th, 2008

Create a new Firefox profile using the Profile Manager (i.e. ff2):

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -ProfileManager

Then launch Firefox 2 with the new profile:

/Applications/Firefox2.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P ff2 -no-remote

Create an apple script using the Script Editor to have a launch icon:

do shell script “/Applications/Firefox2.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P ff2 -no-remote &> /dev/null &”

Save as “Application Bundle” and check “Run only”.

Some icons with version numbers can be found here: http://browserversionicons.com/

One Response to “Running Firefox 2 and 3 together on OSX.”

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