Since you are running firefox
instead of ./firefox
, I guess you are using your system-wide firefox anyway. You can just use the built-in profile manager instead.
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weirdly enough, when i launch ff by ./firefox --no-remote
and check the about:profile
, it is showing up as a separate profile in my main ff.
\
But when I check the about:profile
, it indicates the root directory not as my main one. Like if my main ff is in /home/user/.mozilla
then my instance's root directory is showing /home/user/firefox1/.mozilla
.
I need persistancy.
I think you want to use profiles, not myltiple binaries. Just lauch with "--no-remote --profile-manager"
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
Yeah, this is about the hackiest hack you can hack. If OP says it works then great, I guess, but profiles are exactly this just built-in and tested.
I think multiple binaries should even end up with the exact same profile and therefore are the exact opposite of what OP wants, actually.