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FF profile switching.

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phraktal
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I'm trying to understand how to switch profiles in FF. I've been testing it for few days, and I like it but to fully switch I need a good Profile switching function. I can't seem to find it anywhere. My search led me to running it with -p or going to about:profiles.

Neither of this option is very user friendly or practical on a day to day basis. Can you make use profile more of a thing ?

I'm trying to understand how to switch profiles in FF. I've been testing it for few days, and I like it but to fully switch I need a good Profile switching function. I can't seem to find it anywhere. My search led me to running it with -p or going to about:profiles. Neither of this option is very user friendly or practical on a day to day basis. Can you make use profile more of a thing ?

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user1929
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Hi,

Unfortunately, you're correct that those are the only two ways to switch profiles. I'm not sure whether you've seen this or not, but there's also a containers feature that does many of the same things that a separate profile does. It lets you have multiple sets of cookies and other site data, so for example you could have a "personal" container where you're signed into one set of sites, and a "work" container where you're signed into a different set.

Alternatively, if you just need two profiles you could install Firefox Developer Edition. The developer edition comes with some extra tools intended for web developers, but it also includes an option to use a second profile that's separate from your main Firefox installation.

Hope that helps!

cor-el
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You can use individual desktop shortcuts that specify the profile via the target field (-P "profile-name"). If you need to switch regularly then you can consider to use the -no-remote command line switch to run multiple Firefox instances simultaneously.

You can add -no-remote to the command line to open another Firefox instance with its own profile and run multiple Firefox instances simultaneously.