Juggling Eggs » Mac http://sonnygill.net Priceless eggs, variable gravity Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:28:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Run multiple Firefox profiles as separate Applications on Mac http://sonnygill.net/mac/mac-multiple-firefox-profiles/ http://sonnygill.net/mac/mac-multiple-firefox-profiles/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:24:09 +0000 Sonny Gill http://sonnygill.net/?p=232 Here is a visual guide to creating multiple Firefox profiles and set them up to run like separate applications on Snow Leopard.

Creating a new Firefox profile

Open terminal and execute the following command:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --ProfileManager

This should bring up the Firefox Profile Manager -

Firefox_Profile_manager.png

Go ahead and create a brand new profile.

Using Automator to run the new Firefox profile as an application

Now, on to creating a proper Mac application to run Firefox with your chosen profile.

  1. Open Automator
  2. Choose File -> New -> Application
    Automator.png
  3. Choose Utilities group under Library
  4. Drag Run Shell Script to the workflow pane on the right
  5. Paste the following script: 
    /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P MyProfile -no-remote &> /dev/null &
    Utilities_run_shell_script-1.png

    Replace MyProfile with the name of the profile you created earlier

  6. Choose File – Save As, and save it wherever you want to keep it. Leave the File Format as Application in the Save dialog.

Making it pretty – Changing the Application icon

  • Right click on the saved file and choose Get Info ( or use Cmd + I ) to bring up the Info window.
    Make sure that it is not locked (bottom right corner) -

    Firefox_get_info.png
  • Open Finder and go to /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources directory.
    mac_firefox_icon.png
  • Open firefox.icns file in Preview (just double click it).
  • Click on the image shown in the main Preview pane, copy it using Ctrl – C, click on the icon in the top of Info window and paste it using Ctrl – V.
    Copy_firefox_icon.png

And that is it, your new Firefox Application is ready to go. You can open this even when you have the default Firefox running. And, of course, you can create as many such application as you like.

If you’d like to give different icons to different profiles, just download an icon set and use that with the above steps. One of my favourites is Carbon Firefox, or try a Google search for icons.

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Mac OS X hints has a handy tip on how to resume a download after Safari crashes – Resuming a download after Safari crashes.

With a slight modification to that process, you can manually resume a download that requires a session, for example by requiring you to log in to a website.

Follow the same steps as in the hint above, and after starting and stopping the download, copy the following two items (substitute the urls from the info.plist in the new download file) to the info.plist in the old download that you want to resume -

<key>NSURLDownloadURL</key>
<string>http://www.mypatchsite.com/patch.sit</string>

<key>DownloadEntryURL</key>
<string>http://www.mypatchsite.com/patch.sit</string>

Now open the old download package in Safari, and it should be able to continue the download from where you left it.

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