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One of the few remaining browsers in 2024 that does not support profile switching (and no, a debug
about:profiles
page does not count as supporting profile switching), and sure, AI is absolutely what it needs right now to become relevant. /sAre you talking about this? Because it exists since ~2016
Unfortunately not, that doesn't meet the needs for either a different user, or a completely different use case. For example, I want to completely separate my work profile with a set of extensions, and my personal profile with a completely different theme and set of extensions. In most other browsers you simply click on your profile picture and choose "Switch Profiles" or something. Not Firefox nor its derivatives.
Firefox has a profile manager (the thing that's also exposed to about:profiles). Run it like
firefox -profilemanager
and you'll get a profile switcher.Run
firefox -profilemanager -no-remote
if you want to open multiple different profiles at once (only the original one without "no-remote" will open new tabs when you click on links outside the browser). You'll probably want to make a shortcut for different profiles though, not sure from memory what it is (but probably-profile ProfileName
) and then you can easily use profiles.The support is actually pretty decent, just kinda hidden. You don't get a profile switcher because the browsers are completely separate, they don't really know about each other.
-P works, -profile probably does as well