This is a bash script to install all major versions of Firefox on OS X
Currently it installs:
- Firefox 2.0.0.20
- Firefox 3.0.19
- Firefox 3.5.9
- Firefox 3.6.28
- Firefox 4.0.1
- Firefox 5.0.1
- Firefox 6.0.1
- Firefox 7.0.1
- Firefox 8.0.1
- Firefox 9.0.1
- Firefox 10.0.2
- Firefox 11.0
- Firefox Beta
- Firefox Aurora
- Firefox Nightly
- Firefox UX Nightly
Optionally, the script can install Firebug for each version of Firefox too.
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The
bootstrap.sh
script downloads the latest version ofinstall-all-firefox.sh
before running to ensure that the script is up to date. -
The script downloads all of the associated resources (icons) and utilities (seticon) to the
/tmp/firefoxes
directory. -
The script downloads the
.dmg
files from Mozilla's FTP server into/tmp/firefoxes
. -
The script installs the Firefoxes to
/Applications/Firefoxes/
. -
The script creates a Firefox profile for each installed version of Firefox.
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The script modifies each Firefox app to launch with its specific profile, and customises the application icon.
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The script can optionally download the latest Firebug available for each version of Firefox, and install it upon first launch.
You can see which versions of Firefox you've already installed using this script, using the following command:
$ ./bootstrap.sh
or
$ ./bootstrap.sh status
You can specify the version
to install, or use any of the pre-defined installation groups:
// Default, installs all versions available
$ ./bootstrap.sh
// You can also use the 'all' keyword to install all versions available
$ ./bootstrap.sh "all"
// 'all_future' installs Aurora, Beta, Nightly, Nightly UX
$ ./bootstrap.sh "all_future"
// 'all_past' installs all versions excluding Aurora, Beta, Nightly and Nightly UX
$ ./bootstrap.sh "all_past"
// 'current' installs the current version of Firefox only
$ ./bootstrap.sh "current"
// Specify the versions you would like to install, from the list at the top of this README, separated by spaces
$ ./bootstrap.sh "2.0.0.20 3.0.19"
You can specify the locale
to use, from the list of available locale
options. By default en-GB
is used.
af, ar, be , bg, ca, cs, da, de, el, en-GB, en-US, es-AR, es-ES, eu, fi, fr, fy-NL,
ga-IE, he, hu, it, ja-JP-mac, ko, ku, lt, mk, mn, nb-NO, nl, nn-NO, pa-IN, pl, pt-BR,
pt-PT, ro, ru, sk, sl, sv-SE, tr, uk, zh-CN, zh-TW
$ ./bootstrap.sh "all" "en-US"
(The installation process for the Aurora and Nightly/UX versions will install as en-US
regardless of what you specify)
If you want to just install all versions and leave the installation process unattended, there is a no_prompt
option, this will default all of the y/n
prompts to answering y
.
$ ./bootstrap.sh "all" "en-GB" "no_prompt"
(You will still need to manually accept the EULA if installing Firefox 2.0.0.20)
From a terminal prompt, enter the following:
curl -L -O https://github.com/omgmog/install-all-firefox/raw/master/bootstrap.sh
chmod +x bootstrap.sh
./bootstrap.sh [version] [locale] [no_prompt]
When the Mozilla license pops up, press Q
and then Y
to continue.
It'll take a little while to grab the .dmg
files, but it should only need to do this once.
(Until you reboot, and the contents of /tmp
are deleted.)
Previous updates removed from the README. Look at the file history to see them.
- Added Firefox 11
- Added
bootstrap.sh
to check for script updates before running script
- Added the installation of Firebug for each version of Firefox.
- Added more checks to ensure that the .dmg's unmount cleanly
- Added
prompt
argument, by default the installer won't prompt
- Changed 'prompt' argument to 'no_prompt', so now by default it will prompt.
- Rewrote the README
- Updated
bootstrap.sh
so that it launches the installer withstatus
argument if no arguments provided.
- Add ability to specify additional versions
- Create launcher to preview a site in all install firefoxes (WIP!)
- Portions of the bash script are based on ievms by xdissent - https://github.com/xdissent/ievms
- setfileicon is a utility created by Damien Bobillot (damien.bobillot.2002_setfileicon@m4x.org) http://maxao.free.fr/telechargements/setfileicon.gz
- Firebug
- Thanks to the community for using/reporting issues/making suggestions for features!