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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_

by 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.