Clone the project in /Applications/Firefox

The original app is located at /Applications/Firefox/Firefox.app

• Download Firefox English
• Open dmg file
• Backup: drag and drop the old one in Backup directoy and copy the content of Profiles as well for a backup
• Update: download the new version and simply replace it by a drag & drop from the dmg file
• Launch FireUpdate.appto update all the launchers with the new version of the app

FYI

• ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles
• ~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles

Aliases: Profiles/Default

Change an icon of an app:

• Get Info
• Drag and Drop the icns file to the first icon (the upper left one, not the big one)

Launchers in the current directory are Automator scripts

1 - Application receives files and folders as input

2 - Run AppleScript

	-- Add Application path as first argument
	on run {input, parameters}

		set arg0 to path to me
		set output to {arg0} & input

	end run

3 - Run Shell Script

	apppath="$1"
	appname=$(basename -- "$1")
	profile="${appname%.*}"

	cd $apppath/Contents/$appname
	./Contents/MacOS/firefox -profile "$apppath/../Profiles/$profile/" > /dev/null 2>&1 &

FireManager.app is also an Automator script with the same steps as Launchers except for the step 3

It is use for creating and managing profiles

3 - Run Shell Script

	cd $1/../Firefox.app
	./Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -p &

FireUpdate.app is again an Automator script with the same steps as Launchers except for the step 3

It is use to update all the Firefox app included inside each launcher

3 - Run Shell Script

	apppath="$1"
	cd $apppath/..

	update_profile_app(){
		local profile=$1
		mkdir -p ${profile}.app/Contents/${profile}.app
		rm -rf ${profile}.app/Contents/${profile}.app/Contents
		cp -R Firefox.app/Contents ${profile}.app/Contents/${profile}.app/Contents/
	}

	update_profile_app Empty

• Copy Empty.app
• Paste New.app
• Show Package Contents
• Rename Contents/Empty.app to Contents/New.app
• Change the icon of both New.app and Contents/New.app
• Copy Profiles/Empty
• New Profiles/New
• Check that prefs.js and user.js are here before first startup.

Note:

• New.app is the Automator script launcher
• Contents/New.app is the copied Firefox app

Configuration As Doc

• user.js to set some default parameters at startup
• prefs.js to set some default parameters for first startup

prefs.js changed when Firefox closes

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/startpage-https-privacy-search
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wikipedia-fr
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazon-fr-1
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/github
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/docker-hub