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

  • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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      10 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.