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Announcing my new project, "sVersioN": http://moourl.com/tvtik
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Code contortionist website finally has RSS feeds! Ain't that lovely. http://moourl.com/wcb06
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5k run with @indyhallfitclub and friends ruled! http://moourl.com/m1197
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Venice is awesome! Second home, absolutely. Miss Philly, love Italy!
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MultiFireFox hits the home page of download.com!!
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Two Guys On Beer launches! http://twoguysonbeer.com
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Thursday release of a new project of mine (and Johnny Nines). Can't wait to release it!
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Back at Indy Hall - so long SXSW, see you next year!
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What is MultiFirefox?

Alex Hilman of Indy Hall fame (and many other fames) wrote a nice little description (1, 2) of what MultiFirefox is.

For those of us who work on the ‘front end development’ side of things, there’s a careful balance we hang in regarding new browser releases. The short version is that as new browsers approach their release candidate status, we need to be checking and double checking our work in them to make sure that their change logs don’t break our work.

At the same time, there’s a known issue with the fact that, more often than not, running the latest beta or release candidate alongside with the production version (and, if you’re a really good developer, one previous version back from the most current production release to take care of things). Internet Explorer is notorious for this and I recall the headaches I went through beta testing it. I essentially resolved to (and continue to resolve to) use multiple virtual machines, one for each version of IE.

[Dave Martorana] created a little launcher app that, when copied to your Apps folder along with the accompanied Firefox3.app file (appropriately renamed so it wont overwrite the stable version), will let you create and/or select an additional profile, as well as the version of Firefox that you wish to use. It’s clean, it’s simple, and it works.

Alex rules, be sure to visit his site. The beautiful part is that I'm constantly updating the app, which you get via auto-updates, and you can now run as many versions of Firefox as your heart desires.

NOTE!!

We no longer bundle Firefox 3 in the download. Now that Firefox 3 is out of beta, please download it from Firefox's website first.

Get the latest!!

We've released version 2.0 (v006) of MultiFirefox! Here are a few of the major features:

Totally rewritten in Objective-C and Cocoa! We still love Python, but not for building OSX apps.
10.4 Tiger compatible!
Auto-detection of all Firefox versions in your /Applications folder
Bug fixes for directories with spaces
UI improvements to make the user experience better
Sparkle based automatic updates!

Downloads

You can download the latest versions here.

MultiFirefox 2.0 (v006) - ~877 KB
MultiFirefox 2.0 (v006) SOURCE CODE - ~661 KB

For those still interested in the Python version - perhaps for porting it to Windows?? :)

MultiFireFox.dmg version 1.0.3 (28.23 MB)
MultiFireFox103_source.zip (777 KB) - Built for OSX, but very portable to Windows, should you so be inclined. Written in Python and wxWidgets (wxPython)

Donations

I've actually been approached by some people who have downloaded MultiFirefox to put a donation button on screen here. Be warned: I expect nothing for MultiFirefox. I made the decision to open the source and offer both the binary and source under the MIT license. I have never regretted doing so.

So should you choose to donate a few bucks, consider me humbled to the utmost.

Last updated June 19th, 2008

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MultiFirefox 2.0

by David in Mac OSX Software
A small utility to let developers run multiple versions of Firefox side by side.