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Not GP, but this extension seems to only allow switching profiles. Is there something that allows opening a new window using a different profile? People who use
by AnonC 3y ago
Not GP, but this extension seems to only allow switching profiles. Is there something that allows opening a new window using a different profile? People who use Chrome with multiple profiles may have multiple windows open at the same time, with some windows using (or possibly) sharing profiles.
- Semaphor 3y agoNo sharing, but I can easily open different profiles in a new window in about:profiles (I rarely use profiles, preferring containers, so I don’t care about other ways to open/switch profiles)
- asciimov 3y agoYou can directly launch a firefox profile with "firefox -p 'profile-name'" This will create a separate firefox instance running with that profile. It's not as nice as having a button in firefox to accomplish this, but if you use different shortcuts or keyboard commands to launch things it works quite well.
- johnnyworker 3y agoAlso, adding the option "-no-remote" allows you to open a new profile that way when Firefox is already running.
- nerdponx 3y agoGreat, so why I can't just do this from within the Firefox UI in a nice way? I use terminal/CLI stuff all the time, but when it comes to my GUI desktop I would rather avoid this kind of messing around. Plus, it's definitely not going to get people to switch from Chrome.
- asciimov 3y agoEh... just from reading this comments section and the way people would want to use profiles (instead of containers), I'm ok with the feature being obfuscated.
- littlestymaar 3y agoYou can, just go to the `about:profiles` page. > Plus, it's definitely not going to get people to switch from Chrome. Given that it's only enabling multiple profiles that require such a step (afterward you get a GUI prompt at start-up), you just Google “how to Firefox profiles” once, follow the steps and call it a day. In fact, most people would need to do the same googling if they wanted to use multiple chrome profiles as well…
- asciimov 3y agoThat's a good call on Windows systems, or -new-instance depending on usage. In my linux setup, I removed the -no-remote option for some forgotten reason.
- mariusor 3y agoIt allows running multiple profiles at the same time. You can't open links from one into the others though, which I'm sure Chrome doesn't do either.