Profiles: How to use them in Firefox and derivatives

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Greetings readers and friends, today I bring how to use multiple profiles in Firefox and derivatives.

Problem

The other day trying to try the new Firefox Developer Edition (While I had my Iceweasel), I ran into the following problem:

Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

Doing some research I found out that you can't run another version of Firefox at the same time, which is logical. If I have my browser open, why not just browse in a new window? But ... What happens if we want that window to run with certain settings?

The answer is to use Multiple profiles in Firefox

Profiles in Firefox and derivatives

In Firefox and derivatives (Abrowser, Iceweasel, etc) all the settings such as: our home page, default search engine, passwords, bookmarks, etc. are stored in special folders called Profiles and they are always ready to load our preferences every time we open our browser.

For more information visit the official reference site here

Using the Profile Manager

We are going to create a new profile for our browser that will run with "another profile" (A different profile than the normal one), in my case I will create a profile for the Firefox Developer Edition

To create and delete profiles, just run the following code from the terminal (as the case may be)

/HOME/USUARIO/DESCARGAS/firefox_developer/firefox -ProfileManager

And we create the new profiles that we want.

Every time we use a certain profile, the settings we make in that session will be saved in the corresponding profile
An example from the Firefox Profile Manager

An example from the Firefox Profile Manager

READY!

If we want to run the browser with a specific profile:

firefox -P [Nombre_Del_Perfil]


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  1.   anonymous said
    ago 9 years

    And we can launch all the instances we want with the following command:
    $ firefox -ProfileManager -new-instance

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  2.   tabris said
    ago 9 years

    Install the ProfileSwitcher Addon and save time! I have two profiles with two Sync configured, a marvel.

    Reply to Tabris
    1.    mmm said
      ago 9 years

      mmm how interesting, it's a good idea. you organize better. Thanks for the information.

      Reply to mmm
  3.   sieg84 said
    ago 9 years

    I used that a few times to run aurora from RAM to avoid updating the profile every time I ran the normal version.

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  4.   Pedro said
    ago 9 years

    What a great contribution !!
    I will use it in my work that I have with my personal profile.
    Thank you!!

    Reply to Pedro
  5.   rpyanm said
    ago 9 years

    They can go to Preferences -> General and mark the option that says: "Allow Firefox Developer Edition and Firefox to run at the same time" or "Allow Firefox Developer Edition and Firefox to run at the same time", here is an image that sample: http://imgur.com/Xvxn6vx

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  6.   bul3t3 said
    ago 9 years

    haha tacos

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