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Re:PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to... by oauea on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:47AM (#29522212)
Do that twice, running two firefoxes using two profiles, then click a link in a third application. This tends to try to launch a third firefox process which hangs for a while then says "application already running".

Okay, so you run one of them without no-remote. I had some issues with that, but it mostly works. Now how do you change the default profile? You completely stop firefox, update your shortcuts and finally, in my case, give up on using multiple profiles with firefox on a day to day basis.

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Re:PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to... by magicalhippo on Saturday December 11, 2021 @12:03PM (#29522369)
I agree this is a pain point when using multiple profiles, and something Firefox should improve.

However it's not a huge issue. Mostly just copy-pasting links from mails etc instead of clicking, which gives the nice benefit of observing which site exactly you're about to visit.

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Re:PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to... by ak217 on Saturday December 11, 2021 @01:55PM (#29523276)
Not being able to open links is pretty high on the list of huge issues for a browser.
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Re:PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to... by oauea on Saturday December 11, 2021 @12:22PM (#29522541)
Sure, all it does is it breaks left clicking hyperlinks in all other applications.
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Re:PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to... by db48x on Saturday December 11, 2021 @12:02PM (#29522352)
Navigate to about:profiles and click “Set as Default Profile” for one of them.
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Re:PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to... by oauea on Saturday December 11, 2021 @12:21PM (#29522535)
That button grays out when both profiles are running. Try it.

Also if the firefox instance is launched with no-remote, this won't even work as expected. Instead it'll start another firefox instance with remoting enabled, which will fail to start because the profile is already in use.

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