Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better

Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by k8svet on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:33AM (#37953633)

You can take this a step further. You can copy the existing firefox.application to ~/.local/share/applications in triplicate.

Leave the first the same, but add Hidden=true, NoDisplay=true. Then rename the other two "personal.desktop" "companyname.desktop" and change the Name values inside, and add "-P {personal/companyname}" to the Exec line.

Now your application launcher, if functioning correctly, should hide the default Firefox instance (which due to stupid Firefox behavior can do... unpredictable things), and instead you can type "personal" or "companyname" to have Firefox launch with those specific profiles.

It's really quite fantastic, as good a solution as any I could ask for.

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Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by PcChip on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:56AM (#37955396)

How do you keep from getting them mixed up in the task bar when they're both running?

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Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by baby_souffle on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:28AM (#37956567)

Presumably there’s a configuration directive to change icon?

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Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by k8svet on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:46PM (#38017343)

I'm 5 days, late, but yes, I changed the Icon directive, and also I use a tiling WM and different themes per profile, so there's zero chance of mixing them up.

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