Download Safari 2.0.4 for Leopard

This is a zip of a pre-modified version of MultiSafari 2.0.4
Use this if you don't already have MultiSafari 2.0.4 installed

How To Install...

  1. Download the zip — Safari 2.0.4.zip
  2. Unzip the zip
  3. Drag Safari 2.0.1 into your Applications folder
  4. Wipe your LaunchServices cache with:
    /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
  5. Enable the Debug Menu in your new Safari 2 with:
    defaults write com.apple.Safari.MultiSafari204 IncludeDebugMenu 1
  6. Launch Safari 2.0.1
  7. Profit!
  8. There is no step 9

Background Info

There were a bunch of standalone Safari versions available from Michel Fortin called MultiSafari. They only worked on Tiger.

I took what he had done and modified it very slightly to enable it to run on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

I wrote a quick Terminal Shell Script to convert a pre-installed copy of MultiSafari to work on Leopard.

The UpdateSafari2forLeopard.sh script does this stuff…

  1. Changes the CFBundleVersion in the Info.plist to "999999 MultiSafari/419.3"
    This fools Leopard into condescending to deem it worthy to run.
  2. Changes the bundle identifier to "com.apple.Safari.MultiSafari204"
    This allows Safari 2.0.4 to have a separate Preference file and to be called directly with open 'http://www.subtleGradient.com/' -b 'com.apple.Safari.MultiSafari204'
  3. Changes the CFBundleName to "Safari 2.0.4" so that you can tell the difference between Safari 2.0.4 and your normal Safari.