Comment by yjftsjthsd-h 8 years ago If you mean profiles, Firefox has had it even longer, albeit with poor UI. 3 comments yjftsjthsd-h Reply Spivak 8 years ago Look I'm a contributor to Firefox and even I think it's a stretch to say that FF has multi-profile support. I mean the feature is technically there but it's unusable by everyone except FF nerds. It's a special kind of hell where something like FIREFOX_PROFILE_DIR=~/.profile1 firefox FIREFOX_PROFILE_DIR=~/.profile2 firefox would actually be an improvement on the UX. qu4z-2 8 years ago You need to make one shortcut[0]: firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager Then just click that every time you want a new/different profile. It has a list, with Create, Delete, Rename buttons...I do wish -ProfileManager implied --no-remote though -- I wonder whether there's a reason it doesn't?.EDIT: I just found `firefox -P` elsewhere in the thread. Also it seems like -ProfileManager does imply --no-remote now. Yay![0]: Or a shell script in my case, but a shortcut is probably more "accessible". yjftsjthsd-h 8 years ago But it is that easy: firefox --no-remote --profile /path/to/profile/directory
Spivak 8 years ago Look I'm a contributor to Firefox and even I think it's a stretch to say that FF has multi-profile support. I mean the feature is technically there but it's unusable by everyone except FF nerds. It's a special kind of hell where something like FIREFOX_PROFILE_DIR=~/.profile1 firefox FIREFOX_PROFILE_DIR=~/.profile2 firefox would actually be an improvement on the UX. qu4z-2 8 years ago You need to make one shortcut[0]: firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager Then just click that every time you want a new/different profile. It has a list, with Create, Delete, Rename buttons...I do wish -ProfileManager implied --no-remote though -- I wonder whether there's a reason it doesn't?.EDIT: I just found `firefox -P` elsewhere in the thread. Also it seems like -ProfileManager does imply --no-remote now. Yay![0]: Or a shell script in my case, but a shortcut is probably more "accessible". yjftsjthsd-h 8 years ago But it is that easy: firefox --no-remote --profile /path/to/profile/directory
qu4z-2 8 years ago You need to make one shortcut[0]: firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager Then just click that every time you want a new/different profile. It has a list, with Create, Delete, Rename buttons...I do wish -ProfileManager implied --no-remote though -- I wonder whether there's a reason it doesn't?.EDIT: I just found `firefox -P` elsewhere in the thread. Also it seems like -ProfileManager does imply --no-remote now. Yay![0]: Or a shell script in my case, but a shortcut is probably more "accessible".
yjftsjthsd-h 8 years ago But it is that easy: firefox --no-remote --profile /path/to/profile/directory
Look I'm a contributor to Firefox and even I think it's a stretch to say that FF has multi-profile support. I mean the feature is technically there but it's unusable by everyone except FF nerds. It's a special kind of hell where something like
would actually be an improvement on the UX.
You need to make one shortcut[0]:
Then just click that every time you want a new/different profile. It has a list, with Create, Delete, Rename buttons...
I do wish -ProfileManager implied --no-remote though -- I wonder whether there's a reason it doesn't?.
EDIT: I just found `firefox -P` elsewhere in the thread. Also it seems like -ProfileManager does imply --no-remote now. Yay!
[0]: Or a shell script in my case, but a shortcut is probably more "accessible".
But it is that easy: