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by AnonC 1036 days ago
Not GP, but this extension seems to only allow switching profiles. Is there something that allows opening a new window using a different profile? People who use Chrome with multiple profiles may have multiple windows open at the same time, with some windows using (or possibly) sharing profiles.
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asciimov 1036 days ago
You can directly launch a firefox profile with "firefox -p 'profile-name'"

This will create a separate firefox instance running with that profile. It's not as nice as having a button in firefox to accomplish this, but if you use different shortcuts or keyboard commands to launch things it works quite well.

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johnnyworker 1036 days ago
Also, adding the option "-no-remote" allows you to open a new profile that way when Firefox is already running.
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nerdponx 1036 days ago
Great, so why I can't just do this from within the Firefox UI in a nice way? I use terminal/CLI stuff all the time, but when it comes to my GUI desktop I would rather avoid this kind of messing around. Plus, it's definitely not going to get people to switch from Chrome.
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littlestymaar 1036 days ago
You can, just go to the `about:profiles` page.

> Plus, it's definitely not going to get people to switch from Chrome.

Given that it's only enabling multiple profiles that require such a step (afterward you get a GUI prompt at start-up), you just Google “how to Firefox profiles” once, follow the steps and call it a day. In fact, most people would need to do the same googling if they wanted to use multiple chrome profiles as well…

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asciimov 1036 days ago
Eh... just from reading this comments section and the way people would want to use profiles (instead of containers), I'm ok with the feature being obfuscated.
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asciimov 1036 days ago
That's a good call on Windows systems, or -new-instance depending on usage.

In my linux setup, I removed the -no-remote option for some forgotten reason.

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Semaphor 1036 days ago
No sharing, but I can easily open different profiles in a new window in about:profiles (I rarely use profiles, preferring containers, so I don’t care about other ways to open/switch profiles)
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mariusor 1036 days ago
It allows running multiple profiles at the same time. You can't open links from one into the others though, which I'm sure Chrome doesn't do either.
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