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A shell script for making copies of Firefox. Each copy runs their own profile so that I can have 3 separate sets of cookies.
rm -rf /Applications/Firefox\ H.app
rm -rf /Applications/Firefox\ K.app
rm -rf /Applications/Firefox\ P.app
cp -R /Applications/Firefox.app /Applications/Firefox\ H.app
cp -R /Applications/Firefox.app /Applications/Firefox\ K.app
cp -R /Applications/Firefox.app /Applications/Firefox\ P.app
# Copy icons
cp ~/Applications/Split\ Firefox/horse.icns /Applications/Firefox\ H.app/Contents/Resources/firefox.icns
cp ~/Applications/Split\ Firefox/kigurumi.icns /Applications/Firefox\ K.app/Contents/Resources/firefox.icns
cp ~/Applications/Split\ Firefox/personal.icns /Applications/Firefox\ P.app/Contents/Resources/firefox.icns
# Find replace
sed -i '' 's/\<string>Firefox\<\/string>/\<string>Firefox-Personal\<\/string>/g' /Applications/Firefox\ P.app/Contents/Info.plist
sed -i '' 's/\<string>Firefox\<\/string>/\<string>Firefox-Kigurumi\<\/string>/g' /Applications/Firefox\ K.app/Contents/Info.plist
sed -i '' 's/\<string>Firefox\<\/string>/\<string>Firefox-Horse\<\/string>/g' /Applications/Firefox\ H.app/Contents/Info.plist
sed -i '' 's/\<string>org.mozilla.firefox\<\/string>/\<string>org.mozilla.firefox-personal\<\/string>/g' /Applications/Firefox\ P.app/Contents/Info.plist
sed -i '' 's/\<string>org.mozilla.firefox\<\/string>/\<string>org.mozilla.firefox-kigurumi\<\/string>/g' /Applications/Firefox\ K.app/Contents/Info.plist
sed -i '' 's/\<string>org.mozilla.firefox\<\/string>/\<string>org.mozilla.firefox-horse\<\/string>/g' /Applications/Firefox\ H.app/Contents/Info.plist
# NOTE: May require that you set up your own personal cert. in XCode
codesign --deep --force --sign "MyLocalCodeSignCert" /Applications/Firefox\ H.app
codesign --deep --force --sign "MyLocalCodeSignCert" /Applications/Firefox\ K.app
codesign --deep --force --sign "MyLocalCodeSignCert" /Applications/Firefox\ P.app
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