[janjan]

If I had one wish for future browsers, it it is:

I wish there would be a good/convenient way to open several independent browser instances for different purposes. There should be a way to name each instance.

For example at work I really wish I could have one Chrome instance for research on project 1, one instance for project 2 and one for private stuff. When I close on of the them there should be a way to reopen it later exactly in the state I left it.

On startup I want to see a main browser window which list all my instances. When I click on one of them, a normal Chrome broswer opens with all the corresponding tabs (and perhaps specialized bookmarks).

Right now I have about 100 tabs open for different projects and private stuff. With the proposed systems I could put several browser instances on different workspaces next to the editor/console of the specific project.

[PerryCox]

If your using the dev branch of Google Chrome, you can setup profiles to accomplish this. To enable it you'll need to type `about:flags` in the URL bar and scroll down to where it says enable multiple profiles. Then you can setup a bunch of profiles with different bookmarks/preloaded tabs. Each browser will have it's own history, cookies, associated account, etc.

[a3_nm]

Firefox profiles?

[janjan]

Yes, profiles would be some kind of solution but I'd like to have something more dynamic where I create/delete/clone profiles/instances on the fly.

[sid0]

Shouldn't actually take more than 5 minutes of you writing a few scripts.

  open: firefox --no-remote -P <profile>
  create: firefox -CreateProfile <new name>
  delete: rm -rf <location of profile>, e.g. %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\<profile name> on Windows
  clone: cp -R <location of profile> <new name>

[sid0]

Firefox profiles do exactly what you want.