Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
by ttctciyf on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:06AM
(#34640517)
I've been using a multi-profile setup in firefox for years, just by launching it with
which lets me pick a profile at startup, each with its own settings, cookies, history, and add-ons, etc.. This works fine for me, I don't really feel the need to launch into a different profile from the browser's own menu, if that's what you're referring to?
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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
by nicoburns on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:19AM
(#34640665)
Can you run multiple profiles at the same time using this approach?
Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
by BeefWellington on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:24AM
(#34640723)
The --new-instance flag lets you run multiple copies of even the same profile.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions#-new-ins...
Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
by ttctciyf on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:34PM
(#34645755)
IME, starting Firefox with this flag, then (from the profile manager) picking an already-running profile, I get the fatal error:
> Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To use Firefox, you must first close the existing Firefox process, restart your device, or use a different profile.
So I guess it allows multiple instances but only with different profiles, at least on my system.
Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
by BeefWellington on Saturday February 04, 2023 @10:36PM
(#34661556)
If that's true (I haven't tested), then --no-remote is what you're looking for.