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Look I'm a contributor to Firefox and even I think it's a stretch to say that FF has multi-profile support. I mean the feature is technically there but it's unusable by everyone except FF nerds. It's a special kind of hell where something like

    FIREFOX_PROFILE_DIR=~/.profile1 firefox

    FIREFOX_PROFILE_DIR=~/.profile2 firefox
would actually be an improvement on the UX.



You need to make one shortcut[0]:

  firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager
Then just click that every time you want a new/different profile. It has a list, with Create, Delete, Rename buttons...

I do wish -ProfileManager implied --no-remote though -- I wonder whether there's a reason it doesn't?.

EDIT: I just found `firefox -P` elsewhere in the thread. Also it seems like -ProfileManager does imply --no-remote now. Yay!

[0]: Or a shell script in my case, but a shortcut is probably more "accessible".


But it is that easy:

    firefox --no-remote --profile /path/to/profile/directory




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