Firefox 2 and 3 can co-exist so long as their app bundles are in
separate places (or even just named differently in the same place).
For example, I have FF 2.0 in /Applications, and FF 3.0rc1 in ~/
Applications/, my user's apps folder.  They share the same profile, so
you'll be doing a lot of extension-update-checking between launches,
but you might even be able to make a new profile for one or the other,
then use the -P command line switch to force each to use separate
profiles.  I'm not sure how to do that last bit on the Mac, though --
should be in Mozilla documentation somewhere...

HTH

~ Collin


On May 19, 2:18 pm, Shelane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way to install Firefox 3 RC1 without affecting FF2 on a
> Mac.
>
> The release notes have this message: Please note that installing
> Firefox 3 will overwrite your existing installation of Firefox on Mac
> OS X and Linux.
>
> I'm guessing that's if you simply install it into the Applications
> folder.  If I install it in another folder within the Applications
> folder, will it be ok?  If it's using this same directory for it's
> support files (~/Library/Application Support/Firefox) can it still
> affect FF2?
>
> I have to keep FF2 because it's the "officially" supported browser at
> work.  But I would love to install FF3 to start testing on my apps.

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