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Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?

by Barry Margolin <barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jul 30, 2007 at 07:58 PM

In article <1185234360.750662@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc Warren Oates <warren.oates@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> > In article <f82id7$3mm$02$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > d d <dd_no_spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> >> I want to have Safari 1.3, 2.0 and 3.0 all installed on the same
(Intel) 
> >> Mac Mini. Does anyone else successfully have such a configuration?
> > 
> > You could install them under 3 different users, and use fast switching

> > to  move back and forth. Kludge, for sure, but it would probably work.
> 
> No, it would not work.
> 
> You don't install Safari for a user, you install it on a system. 
> Installing from three different users will make no difference at all.
> 
> Safari is just a very thin shell around WebKit.framework which lives in 
> /System unless you're doing some non-obvious tricks. Any approach which 
> doesn't acknowledge this is bound to fail. There's a lot more than just 
> the .app at work.

Isn't there an automatic search list for frameworks, that looks in 
~/Library/Frameworks before /System/Frameworks?  So maybe you could put 
the old WebKit.framework in one user's ~/Library.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 15 Posts in Topic:
Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
d d <dd_no_spam@[EMAIL  2007-07-23 17:44:39 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
TaliesinSoft <taliesin  2007-07-23 10:58:04 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
d d <dd_no_spam@[EMAIL  2007-07-23 18:22:59 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
Reinder Verlinde <rein  2007-07-23 18:23:27 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
d d <dd_no_spam@[EMAIL  2007-07-23 18:33:48 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
Reinder Verlinde <rein  2007-07-23 20:11:39 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
d d <dd_no_spam@[EMAIL  2007-07-23 20:19:11 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
Sherm Pendley <spamtra  2007-07-23 14:45:53 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
d d <dd_no_spam@[EMAIL  2007-07-23 20:56:16 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
Sherm Pendley <spamtra  2007-07-23 15:18:19 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
Warren Oates <warren.o  2007-07-23 18:07:43 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
Michael Ash <mike@[EMA  2007-07-23 18:46:00 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
Warren Oates <warren.o  2007-07-23 22:22:58 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
Michael Ash <mike@[EMA  2007-07-23 22:05:24 
Re: Multiple Safari versions installed ... possible ?
Barry Margolin <barmar  2007-07-30 19:58:40 

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