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Firefox's Profiles get a huge upgrade with easier Profile Creation, Switching and Customization (windowsreport.com)

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[–] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

At the moment, running different profiles simultaneously is not possible

Bullocks. I run 2 or 3 profiles at the same time. For over 2 years now. Just easier now.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone Me too. At least I used to have a separate profile for PDF viewing, which had its own plugins installed. It can be done by using commandline options to select what profile to use, like in --profile or -P (i forgot which of them I used actually). Just created a script for it (Bash script in Linux) and associated PDF files with it as if it was a separate program.

What they mean in the article is probably its not possible with the GUI only of Firefox. They totally ignored the commandline options.

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

IIRC, ~~-p launches a profile by path, and -P launches the GUI for selecting/creating a profile.~~ this is wrong, -P specifies a profile path. I forgot how to open the manager.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

Type in the terminal firefox --help to see all options. You can open the manager with firefox --ProfileManager. I used to create a profile this way and then either with -P or -p was using that profile.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but you have to do it with separate launch arguments.

[–] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or always start with profilemanager. But indeed, also a launch argument.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Or open about:profiles (which you can put conveniently in your bookmark bar).

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

Hopefully it's not an actual regression in the latest version, because that'd be terrible.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Rookie numbers! 4 here.