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Firefox does have profiles and has had for as long as I’ve needed them. For some reason they’ve always been hidden away and needed different args on start to ch

Firefox does have profiles and has had for as long as I’ve needed them. For some reason they’ve always been hidden away and needed different args on start to change the profile being started, or the use of an extension to allow profile switching. I don’t use them anymore but from what I remember they worked well and were very isolated. Hopefully they’re using the current implementation and just making it more user friendly?

worble 2y ago
You can use the url about:profiles to manage profiles too, which is still hidden away and not a great UI, but at least you don't need to use an extension or the command line.
akdor1154 2y ago
As of a recent update, the Profile Manager is available as a startup option if you right click the ff icon (on gnome at least, i assume this was implemented cross platform)
- lxgr 2y ago
  It's definitely not an option on macOS, at least. Holding the "option" key is even somewhat of an UI convention on macOS to allow opening an alternative media library (e.g. for Photos, Music aka iTunes etc.), yet Firefox maps it to "startup in safe mode".
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
  It's not just a GNOME thing, but it might not be that cross-platform. On Linux, there's a firefox.desktop file that describes the application to your DE/launcher, and it looks like this on my box: [Desktop Entry] Actions=new-private-window;new-window;profile-manager-window Categories=Network;WebBrowser Exec=firefox --name firefox %U ---snip--- [Desktop Action profile-manager-window] Exec=firefox --ProfileManager Name=Profile Manager So that'll work on anything that uses https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/de... and there could be parallel features for Windows/Mac, but there also might not be or Firefox might not implement them.

worble 2y ago

You can use the url about:profiles to manage profiles too, which is still hidden away and not a great UI, but at least you don't need to use an extension or the command line.

akdor1154 2y ago

As of a recent update, the Profile Manager is available as a startup option if you right click the ff icon (on gnome at least, i assume this was implemented cross platform)

lxgr 2y ago
It's definitely not an option on macOS, at least. Holding the "option" key is even somewhat of an UI convention on macOS to allow opening an alternative media library (e.g. for Photos, Music aka iTunes etc.), yet Firefox maps it to "startup in safe mode".
yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
It's not just a GNOME thing, but it might not be that cross-platform. On Linux, there's a firefox.desktop file that describes the application to your DE/launcher, and it looks like this on my box: [Desktop Entry] Actions=new-private-window;new-window;profile-manager-window Categories=Network;WebBrowser Exec=firefox --name firefox %U ---snip--- [Desktop Action profile-manager-window] Exec=firefox --ProfileManager Name=Profile Manager So that'll work on anything that uses https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/de... and there could be parallel features for Windows/Mac, but there also might not be or Firefox might not implement them.