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That's the one feature I really want from Firefox profiles!
Bullocks. I run 2 or 3 profiles at the same time. For over 2 years now. Just easier now.
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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
--profileor-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.
IIRC, ~~
-plaunches a profile by path, and-Plaunches the GUI for selecting/creating a profile.~~ this is wrong,-Pspecifies a profile path. I forgot how to open the manager.Type in the terminal
firefox --helpto see all options. You can open the manager withfirefox --ProfileManager. I used to create a profile this way and then either with-Por-pwas using that profile.Yeah but you have to do it with separate launch arguments.
Or always start with profilemanager. But indeed, also a launch argument.
Or open
about:profiles(which you can put conveniently in your bookmark bar).Hopefully it's not an actual regression in the latest version, because that'd be terrible.
Rookie numbers! 4 here.