Running Firefox 3 at the same time as Firefox 2: Applescript Edition // writing
Following up, Chu Yeow’s excellent tip for running Minefield (aka Firefox 3) alongside Firefox 2 using a separate profile, I thought I’d add my two cents.
If you’re on a Mac (let’s face it who isn’t) you can run it from your AppleScript menu, instead of having to go to the command line.
First of all go and do what Chu Yeow says, he did write the book after all. Done that? Good.
Make sure you’ve enabled the Script Menu, using the AppleScript Utility (in Applications/AppleScript folder). Otherwise the menu won’t appear – no menu, no script.
Now open Script Editor from your Applications/AppleScript folder.
Paste in the following command:
do shell script "/Applications/Minefield.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P minefield -no-remote &"
Save the script in your ~/Library/Scripts folder, perhaps with a clever name such as ‘Firefox 3’. And you’re done. Easy.
Come to think of it if you’re suffering through Windows you could probably create a shortcut on your Desktop to the Minefield application and append ‘ -P minefield -no-remote’ and it might work…