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> Firefox has a concept of profiles but AFAICT you can only run one profile at a time. :( You can have one primary firefox instance, and any number of instance
by TheDong 8y ago
> Firefox has a concept of profiles but AFAICT you can only run one profile at a time. :(
You can have one primary firefox instance, and any number of instances that have the "--no-remote" flag set, each running different profiles. Any links you click outside of firefox (e.g. xdg-open) will use the primary firefox.
The 'firefox --no-remote -P' trick has worked for longer than chrome has existed and I've been using it to juggle about 15 profiles since firefox 3, usually having 4 different firefox instances open with 4 different profiles.
The more user-friendly way to do this is with firefox containers though.
- pastununtrium 8y agoWhat is the memory hit though. Do the separate profile processes share some of the library memory or do they each reuse a lot of memory. I’d assume chrome profiles being natively supported via a easy GUI means the separate profile processes are able to share memory??