Filed under: Internet, Macintosh, Mozilla
Easily run Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 beta side-by-side in OS X
by Christina Warren Feb 22nd 2008
So, you want to try out Firefox 3 and get a feel for the new features, but you don't want to risk corrupting, deleting or otherwise messing up your stable Firefox 2 installation. Sure, you can hit the command line, create a new profile and then customize the shortcut to each version of Firefox so that it launches the correct profile (or manually choose what profile you want at the start of each Firefox session), but that can be a pain -- especially if you want to try out different plugin configurations in Firefox 3.
Enter MultiFireFox, the fantastic little launching application created by Dave Martorana. Just download the DMG (the source file is also available if anyone wants to try to port this to Windows) and not only will you get Firefox 3 beta 3, but a very tidy little launching application. Upon running MultiFireFox for the first time, you will be instructed to create a second profile if you do not already have one (and the profile manager will start up automatically, no going into the command line to get it started). From that point, you can choose what profile and what version of Firefox you want to launch. You can even run the two side-by-side to test performance.
Although this program is Mac only, you can replicate the same functionality (if not the finesse) by following these instructions.
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