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Still no way to run multiple independent windows without a lot of dirty hacks. This is the only thing that keeps me with Chrome: The ability to close a certain

by vegardx 10y ago

Still no way to run multiple independent windows without a lot of dirty hacks. This is the only thing that keeps me with Chrome: The ability to close a certain set of windows when I'm done at work and have them out of the way. Or the other way around, close windows with private and personal things. I don't understand what stops Firefox from implementing something similar. They already have the concept of profiles. Just no ability to run them simultaneously.

dsp1234 10y ago
without a lot of dirty hacks http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_with_another_profile http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_... Creating an independent set of windows with FF is as easy as creating a shortcut with the '-no-remote' option. Using '-P -no-remote' will open a new independent window and show the profile manager (so you can have one shortcut to run multiple profiles). If you already have a short list of profiles you like to run, then you can hard code the profile name is as well.
- vegardx 10y ago
  It makes no sense that I have to modify the start up options or (on OSX) create a shortcut in Automator to set the correct start up options. In Chrome it has been solved very nicely. But it looks like this is being solved in future versions of Firefox, which is nice. I've tried to do it the way you described, but it just feels messy. Even more so when your dock ends up with X-amount of Firefox-icons, instead of grouping them together like Chrome does. But I guess people have different preferences.
  - jonathanyc 10y ago
    Do you mean you would prefer it to be a preference rather than a command line flag?
- cpeterso 10y ago
  You can use Firefox's about:profiles page to manage your Firefox profiles without using the command line parameters.
bzbarsky 10y ago
See https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identities-on-the-web/ https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identit...
- vegardx 10y ago
  Thanks, definitively keeping my eyes open on Firefox in the future.

by vegardx 10y ago

dsp1234 10y ago

without a lot of dirty hacks http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_with_another_profile http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_... Creating an independent set of windows with FF is as easy as creating a shortcut with the '-no-remote' option. Using '-P -no-remote' will open a new independent window and show the profile manager (so you can have one shortcut to run multiple profiles). If you already have a short list of profiles you like to run, then you can hard code the profile name is as well.

vegardx 10y ago
It makes no sense that I have to modify the start up options or (on OSX) create a shortcut in Automator to set the correct start up options. In Chrome it has been solved very nicely. But it looks like this is being solved in future versions of Firefox, which is nice. I've tried to do it the way you described, but it just feels messy. Even more so when your dock ends up with X-amount of Firefox-icons, instead of grouping them together like Chrome does. But I guess people have different preferences.
- jonathanyc 10y ago
  Do you mean you would prefer it to be a preference rather than a command line flag?
cpeterso 10y ago
You can use Firefox's about:profiles page to manage your Firefox profiles without using the command line parameters.

bzbarsky 10y ago

See https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identities-on-the-web/ https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identit...

vegardx 10y ago
Thanks, definitively keeping my eyes open on Firefox in the future.