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Why does have to keep profiles hidden in "about:profiles" like they're illegal to have. It's quite literally the 1 feature stopping me from using it over Vivaldi. That and vertical tabs, of (mastodon.social)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why does @firefox have to keep profiles hidden in "about:profiles" like they're illegal to have. It's quite literally the 1 feature stopping me from using it over Vivaldi. That and vertical tabs, of course

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This baffled me to no end, but the -P flag did the trick.

eg Win11: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P as a shortcut.

Got used to always start with profile picker.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you add -no-remote to the command, you can launch multiple profiles simultaneously. You don’t need that parameter on your main profile.

Example:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P [profile’s name] -no-remote

You can even make a shortcut to Firefox and put the command in. I have several icons launch profiles when I need them.