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Alex Hillman Writes Here: More than One Firefox (Beta) 2.0 to rule them all - a Dave Martorana concoction

  • ken rossi · 1 year ago

    Could someone please make this for windows... I am a few months away from moving over to a mac setup... and a couple of months from FF3... pls pls :-)

  • Florian · 1 year ago

    This is wonderful! Thank you very much!

  • ea · 1 year ago

    hi... just found this tool via google but your amazon aws link is not working. shows some xml saying that "access is denied"

  • Alex Hillman · 1 year ago

    AWS link fixed, sorry I missed the permissions when I updated the files this morning.

  • Neal · 1 year ago
    Hi. Firefox 3 beta 5 is out. Is it safe to just get the beta 5, rename it to Firefox3.app like the one in your package, and just use that instead?

    Thanks.
  • Alex Hillman · 1 year ago
    Neal,
    You can, indeed, simply rename a new version of Firefox to Firefox3.app and it will work.

    There's a new Cocoa version that Dave is working on, it will be bundled with the newest beta as well.
  • Neal · 1 year ago
    Oooo. I guess I'll wait for that instead then.

    Thanks lots. :D
  • Addison · 1 year ago
    I can't get mine to work. Every time I open it, it tells me to create a new profile and so I click ok and then it quits. Any ideas? I have firefox 2 installed already. Originally it was called BonEcho because I am using a version of firefox 2 edited to run better on intel macs but then I renamed it to Firefox 2 but it still doesn't work. Hopefully you can figure out the problem.

    Thanks
  • Dave Martorana · 1 year ago
    @Addison - MultiFirefox assumes that in your /Applications folder there is at least one application named Firefox. This is obviously a bug, since you have a version called Firefox2, which it should pick up on. I'll fix this bug today and release an update. When I have, (if you have version 2.0) opening MultiFirefox will launch the auto-updater.

    I'll post back when I'm finished. Thanks for pointing that out!
  • ian · 1 year ago
    Hey - thanks for this. Nice app. FF3 is solid, but not all service providers have caught up with it. Just found one yesterday that didn't recognise the new FF3 user-agent, so I had to roll back to FF2 to get it to work. This version switcher makes it easy to jump back if I really need to.

    Thanks
  • Ruprict · 1 year ago
    So, I have the same problem as Addison. I start MFF and it asks if I want to check for updates. Any answer results in MFF crashing. I can send you a crash report, if you think it'd help.

    Oh, and I am on a G5....that matter?
  • Dave Martorana · 1 year ago
    @Addison, the newest version of MultiFirefox should have your problem fixed.

    @Ruprict - that is indeed an odd error, we'll figure it out together. It should not matter that you're on a G5, it's built as a Universal application targeting 10.4 and 10.5, both PPC and Intel.
  • ScottBruin · 1 year ago
    I'm having the same problem with a crash on a 1.8ghz PowerMac G5.
  • GALA · 1 year ago
    THANKS!
  • Jamespro · 1 year ago
    I'm having the same crash problem as Ruprict... G4 dual 867mhz 2 GB RAM

    Thanks!
  • Dave Martorana · 1 year ago
    To all those having the crash issue:

    It's now (I'm almost sure) solved. A few core people have been kind enough to test the app after experiencing the crash issue, and are now using MultiFirefox with no problems. Sweet.

    Those experiencing the crash issue will not be able to update via auto-update, so please uninstall MultiFirefox, and download the newest version (2.0 v006) from here:

    http://codecontortionist.com/software/mac-osx-s...

    I hope this fixes everyones issues!!

    Dave
  • broasaurus · 1 year ago
    anyone got a windows implementation?
  • keithlam (Keith Lam) · 1 year ago
    MultiFirefox lets you run FF2, FF3, and Minefield all at the same time on a Mac http://tinyurl.com/3b7yd4