Comments on: Multiple Firefox Profiles in Ubuntu

By: How to launch different firefox profiles via the keyboard using Unity | MoVn - Linux Ubuntu Center

Fri, 11 May 2012 06:53:25 +0000

[...] hit enter and have the Facebook profile launched. Before Unity I had this by having multiple application launchers and then using gnome do to access [...]

By: Bless

Bless — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:22:05 +0000

Great information, and thanks for all the comments too!

By: Elie

Elie — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:58:08 +0000

Thank you, Great info

By: gaarai

gaarai — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:35:32 +0000

They syntax is proper, it’s just WordPress mangling the double quotes into fancy quotes that is creating a problem. The quotes are necessary to launch a profile with spaces.

By: ubunaru

ubunaru — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:31:21 +0000

correct syntax for skipping the profile manager and launch firefox wit profile named Clean is:

firefox -no-remote -P Clean

instead of

firefox -no-remote -P “Clean” who will launch the firefox profile manager

By: gaarai

gaarai — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:38:32 +0000

If you add the -no-remote argument to the firefox command, you can run multiple instances with different profiles. For example:

firefox -no-remote -P default

This runs a new instance of Firefox with the default profile. You can also run the following to launch a new instance and have Firefox as for the profile:

firefox -no-remote -P

Changing your shortcuts or launchers to use these commands rather than just “firefox” allows for easy launching of different profiles with a click of the mouse.

By: aakside

aakside — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:25:44 +0000

How can two instances of firefox run, but each with a different profile? The first instance will load the profile the associated launcher indicated, but once that is running, the other launcher, despite being for a different profile, will just open a new window using the already open profile.

By: gaarai

gaarai — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:54:20 +0000

Great information Toban. Thank for sharing it.

By: Toban

Toban — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:19:55 +0000

Good instructions. You might want to consider this regarding the default profile launcher: "Never use -no-remote to start the "default" profile (the one that is set to open without asking when you launch Firefox). That's because when you launch Firefox, for example, by clicking a link in your mail program, you will get a Firefox is already running but is not responding message if the default profile is already in use. The solution is to always start the default profile normally and launch all others with -no-remote."