ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoFirefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessionswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1347arrow-down17
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minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-217 hours agoJust add -P to Firefox launch flags once and then selected “prompt me everytime”. This also has been true for rlike 20 years.
minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-216 hours agoOr just -P “profilename” to launch that profile directly from a shortcut. You can have as many running simultaneously as you’d want.
minus-squarekaty ✨@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoit’s slightly different; before to have two profiles open at the same time you had to add no-remote and it was still quirky; now its much more streamlines and background links outside of firefox will open in whichever profile has focus.
Just add -P to Firefox launch flags once and then selected “prompt me everytime”. This also has been true for rlike 20 years.
Or just -P “profilename” to launch that profile directly from a shortcut.
You can have as many running simultaneously as you’d want.
it’s slightly different; before to have two profiles open at the same time you had to add no-remote and it was still quirky; now its much more streamlines and background links outside of firefox will open in whichever profile has focus.