PortableFirefox CX

Portable Firefox for OS X in Cocoa

What is Portable Firefox CX?

Portable Firefox CX is a portable profile switcher written for Mac OS X in ObjC/Cocoa. It's designed to give a simple interface to execute a local copy of Firefox.app with a specific profile, choosen from a list.

Screenshots

Usage

PortableFirefox CX ships with Firefox 1.5/Mac included. You can easily change the version of Firefox with another simply changing the included app.

If you want to create or use another profile, just copy from Finder the included profile in another folder under /profiles/ with a different name. The name of the folder will be the one displayed inside the application.

Download

PortableFirefox CX 1.0a for OSX download 18.4Mb: First release. Allows execution of a local copy of Firefox with a paired set of profiles. Localized in English and Italian.
Firefox 1.5.0.7 included.
PortableFirefox CX 1.0a PLAIN for OSX download 532Kb: Firefox NOT included.
PortableFirefox CX 1.0 source (Xcode2.0) download 148Kb: Source code.

Thanks to

Justin Palmer for the base image
Gand for the idea
SELCUX for the application icon
The CocoaBuilder.com archives for the info about ObjC and Cocoa
Ryan Schwartz (for the debug infos)

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