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by johnnyworker 1032 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 1032 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 1032 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 1032 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 1032 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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