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Firefox's Profiles get a huge upgrade with easier Profile Creation, Switching and Customization (windowsreport.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Me too. At least I used to have a separate profile for PDF viewing, which had its own plugins installed. It can be done by using commandline options to select what profile to use, like in --profile or -P (i forgot which of them I used actually). Just created a script for it (Bash script in Linux) and associated PDF files with it as if it was a separate program.

What they mean in the article is probably its not possible with the GUI only of Firefox. They totally ignored the commandline options.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

IIRC, ~~-p launches a profile by path, and -P launches the GUI for selecting/creating a profile.~~ this is wrong, -P specifies a profile path. I forgot how to open the manager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Type in the terminal firefox --help to see all options. You can open the manager with firefox --ProfileManager. I used to create a profile this way and then either with -P or -p was using that profile.