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Firefox can already run multiple profiles simultaneously (like you do with chrome) http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments http://kb.mozillazine.org/Co
by snthd 8y ago
Firefox can already run multiple profiles simultaneously (like you do with chrome) http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments .
The problem is not having just one instance open all the links. It seems it might be possible to hack around that by writing your own url handler for your os, then dispatching to the correct instance. (https://superuser.com/questions/119014/how-to-remotely-open-an-url-in-firefox-in-a-specific-profile/141350 https://superuser.com/questions/119014/how-to-remotely-open-...)
- kemayo 8y agoI did try that out, when I was seeing if I could stand switching after multiprocess stuff landed. It's closer to the fairly-polished Chrome experience if you use about:profiles, rather than messing around with custom command lines. But, as you say, the problem with that is that it doesn't handle opening links correctly. I could see if I could write a URL handler that queries the window manager to find the last Firefox window that had focus on the current desktop (probably possible, but I'm unfamiliar with that domain)... or I could view Firefox not supporting this natively as a sign that it doesn't think my use case is very important, and stick with a browser that works without jumping through hoops. It's not that I'm averse to putting some work in, per se -- I'm now in the middle of poking at writing a Firefox add-on to see if I can fix my complaints about insufficiently sticky containers -- it's just that writing my own OS url handler is a bit too hacky for my tastes.