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At yesterday’s WebSG meetup, someone asked me how you can have 2 different user sessions in Firefox, and I was unable to answer as I never had the need for 2 different user sessions (though I imagine it’d be nice for testing certain types of interactive web applications).
Anyway, I found the answer today after some Googling – Lifehacker’s “Manage multiple Firefox profiles” article.
Basically, once you have started Firefox in a profile that you want, you can start another profile by passing the ‘-no-remote’ switch together with the name of the profile you want to start with the ‘-P’ switch:
/path/to/firefox -P profile_name -no-remoteIt does mean you need 2 different profiles though, for the 2 different user sessions. Oh well.
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13 Responses to Running two Firefox profiles simultaneously
coleman yee
March 2nd, 2007 at 12am
nice presentation – learnt quite a bit!
choonkeat
March 2nd, 2007 at 10am
ah.. thanks for digging this up. truely convenient when testing with different logins (access level)
Ivan Chew
March 5th, 2007 at 10pm
At first, I was wondering if I was the only one in the room who didn’t know the tricks (I knew about CTRL-T, CTRL-W but that’s about it). Then later I found out you were the author of the book. Alamak! Why didn’t Lucian tell me earlier?! I would have grabbed copies from the library and got you to sign them. Err… the library has them right? (frantically searches for it…) Cheers!
Rajveer
March 19th, 2007 at 10pm
very nice information, i have three profiles and this is just what i needed the most!
Thanks
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March 7th, 2008 at 9pm
Thank you for the post. Will go try it out. Does it allow for multiple or is it just 2.
philip
May 3rd, 2008 at 6pm
excellent, thank you
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