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Is there an easy way to run two profiles of firefox simultaneously? As it stands I use FF with a bunch of extensions that limit what it can do (uMatrix, cookie zappers, etc.) and then occasionally when I just want to quickly view something I open it in chromium (and I also use it for youtube). But if they're going to cripple ad blockers (among other things) I'd rather just do it all in firefox

Is there an easy way to run two profiles of firefox simultaneously?

Start one of them with

    firefox.exe -p profile_name -no-remote
I do this to run the beta and the stable version at the same time.

More details here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

thank you

Best solution i found is to have normal firefox + Firefox Developer Edition

They use separated profiles (you could sync them to same if you wanted)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

You can run:

firefox -no-remote -profile ./ff

It will create the folder and a new Firefox profile there

Optionally you can download Firefox portable

Create a shortcut to firefox using the command

firefox -P

whenever you launch it you'll be presented with a dialog to pick a profile or create a new one.

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