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Profile switching (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Deepness9310@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I recently switched from brave(flatpack) to firefox(rpm) on fedora 38 running wayland

Is there a better way to switch between different profiles other than going to about:profiles and selecting the profile there

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[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Create Firefox launchers

Launch the Firefox profile manager:
$ firefox -ProfileManager

Launch a specific profile:
$ firefox -P "ProfileName"

[–] Auster@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's an extension made by Mozilla themselves, Multi-Account Containers, which could be useful for your needs:
https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers

I guess you could say it works as a "profile-lite" feature.

[–] bahmanm@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had no idea you could do that via about:config 😅 I would always either disable "Use the selected profile ..." or launch it with firefox -P --no-remote as suggested.

FYI after years of having several profiles for different activities, I settled down on Multi-account containers and have been quite happy with it. I even wrote a little blogpost about my experience sometime ago - you might find it useful.

[–] Deepness9310@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Sorry i made a typo in the question,i go to about:profiles

[–] Kuunha@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

[–] mercan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

You can use Profile Switcher for Firefox extension

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switcher/

It doesn't work the same way as Chrome, as a warning though. If you open links from other applications, it will only open in the first instance of Firefox.

Also the profile manager can be used with a shortcut: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles#w_start-the-profile-manager-when-firefox-is-closed

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