Remember the MultiFirefox

Today is the day that records are meant to be broken.

In the world of open source browsers named Firefox, that is.

While the official Mozilla site is crashing, and crashing hard, I was able to grab it from one of their official mirrors quickly, so it still counted towards their desire to break the record for most downloads of a new release (or something like that).

You can grab a copy for yourself.

What’s that? You don’t want to get rid of Firefox 2.x just yet? Developer worried about backwards compatability? Some useful add-on not updated yet?

Fret not.

Multifirefox to the rescue. I know I wrote about it before, but we just wanted to let you know that it’s not just for betas of Firefox3. I works with as many versions of Firefox as you care to drop in your App folder and appropriately name.

Just drag the Firefox.app out of the DMG, put it on your desktop for a hot second. Rename it Firefox3, and put it in your Applications directory from there.

Easy peasie.

Get the latest version of MultiFirefox (now with sparkle, so it’ll keep updating as Dave makes updates).


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  • http://www.codecontortionist.com Dave Martorana

    You humble me man!

  • http://www.codecontortionist.com Dave Martorana

    You humble me man!

  • http://nouincolor.com/ Oskar Krawczyk

    While the idea is great, I had some trouble using it… literally. It seems that the “ok” action has no event attached (keep pressing it and absolutely nothing happens – http://mt14.quickshareit.com/share/picture80f79c.png). / Leopard 10.5.2.

    Best, Oskar!

  • http://blog.olicio.us/ Oskar Krawczyk

    While the idea is great, I had some trouble using it… literally. It seems that the “ok” action has no event attached (keep pressing it and absolutely nothing happens – http://mt14.quickshareit.com/share/picture80f79c.png). / Leopard 10.5.2.

    Best, Oskar!

  • http://nouincolor.com/ Oskar Krawczyk

    Ok, managed to solve it by moving my two firefox instances from Desktop to Applications – so I don’t get the message any more.

  • http://blog.olicio.us/ Oskar Krawczyk

    Ok, managed to solve it by moving my two firefox instances from Desktop to Applications – so I don’t get the message any more.

  • http://rogersmj.com Matthew Rogers

    Nice concept, gives me a little more flexibility than the profile manager, but it asks me every single time if I want it to check for updates on startup. Very annoying. Running Leopard, all the latest updates.

    Also, I can’t find any way to contact the developer about this! There’s no comments form on the MFF page, no Contact link on his site!

  • http://rogersmj.com Matthew Rogers

    Nice concept, gives me a little more flexibility than the profile manager, but it asks me every single time if I want it to check for updates on startup. Very annoying. Running Leopard, all the latest updates.

    Also, I can’t find any way to contact the developer about this! There’s no comments form on the MFF page, no Contact link on his site!