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This is tiny, but I've gotten a surprising amount of mileage out of aliasing 'fx' to firefox --new-instance --profile $(mktemp -d) which pops open a new ins

This is tiny, but I've gotten a surprising amount of mileage out of aliasing 'fx' to firefox --new-instance --profile $(mktemp -d) which pops open a new instance of Firefox with a completely clean, temporary profile. Super useful for testing sites or add-ons without influencing (or being influenced by) by my normal browsing profile.

Topgamer7 8y ago
I have a similar command, except it keeps the existing addons from my main profile. Which is useful as I need a proxy for different environments for work.
- zyber 8y ago
  Please share how you did do that, that sounds awesome!
  - OJFord 8y ago
    Not GP, but you could just do the same except after making the temp dir: copy in `profile/addons.json` and `-r profile/extension*` from your main profile. (There might be other files needed to, not tested.)
  - Topgamer7 8y ago
    #!/bin/sh PROFILEDIR=`mktemp -p /tmp -d tmp-fx-profile.XXXXXX.d` mkdir -p $PROFILEDIR/extensions cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/yvwc47i0.default/ cp extensions/* $PROFILEDIR/extensions/ cp addons.json extensions.json $PROFILEDIR/ cp -R browser-extension-data $PROFILEDIR/ cp cert_override.txt $PROFILEDIR/ #cp prefs.js $PROFILEDIR/ echo 'user_pref("devtools.selfxss.count", 10);' > $PROFILEDIR/prefs.js cd - firefox -profile $PROFILEDIR -no-remote -new-instance rm -rf $PROFILEDIR Created this as a script somewhere in my path. You'd need to change `cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/yvwc47i0.default/` to match what yours is.
throwaway2021 8y ago
This is great, thanks.
egoisticalgoat 8y ago
I can't believe i never thought of using command line switches for that kind of stuff, i always just have firefox set to forget all data on close. Not exactly a bash alias, but might be useful too: Since I often get bug reports for specific versions of firefox, i've set up a small script for downloading and starting a given firefox version: https://pastebin.com/t2PHxJqE https://pastebin.com/t2PHxJqE
kalev 8y ago
What would the Google Chrome equivalent look like?
- scrollaway 8y ago
  chromium --user-data-dir $(mktemp -d)
  - noir_lord 8y ago
    Aye, learnt this when I wanted selenium profiles with some Dev plugins available but not my main profile.

Topgamer7 8y ago

I have a similar command, except it keeps the existing addons from my main profile. Which is useful as I need a proxy for different environments for work.

zyber 8y ago
Please share how you did do that, that sounds awesome!
- OJFord 8y ago
  Not GP, but you could just do the same except after making the temp dir: copy in `profile/addons.json` and `-r profile/extension*` from your main profile. (There might be other files needed to, not tested.)
- Topgamer7 8y ago
  #!/bin/sh PROFILEDIR=`mktemp -p /tmp -d tmp-fx-profile.XXXXXX.d` mkdir -p $PROFILEDIR/extensions cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/yvwc47i0.default/ cp extensions/* $PROFILEDIR/extensions/ cp addons.json extensions.json $PROFILEDIR/ cp -R browser-extension-data $PROFILEDIR/ cp cert_override.txt $PROFILEDIR/ #cp prefs.js $PROFILEDIR/ echo 'user_pref("devtools.selfxss.count", 10);' > $PROFILEDIR/prefs.js cd - firefox -profile $PROFILEDIR -no-remote -new-instance rm -rf $PROFILEDIR Created this as a script somewhere in my path. You'd need to change `cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/yvwc47i0.default/` to match what yours is.

throwaway2021 8y ago

This is great, thanks.

egoisticalgoat 8y ago

I can't believe i never thought of using command line switches for that kind of stuff, i always just have firefox set to forget all data on close. Not exactly a bash alias, but might be useful too: Since I often get bug reports for specific versions of firefox, i've set up a small script for downloading and starting a given firefox version: https://pastebin.com/t2PHxJqE https://pastebin.com/t2PHxJqE

kalev 8y ago

What would the Google Chrome equivalent look like?

scrollaway 8y ago
chromium --user-data-dir $(mktemp -d)
- noir_lord 8y ago
  Aye, learnt this when I wanted selenium profiles with some Dev plugins available but not my main profile.