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Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In Windows it's the same. Though the parameter is -P (uppercase) not -p. That's why the comment said "it’s hidden behind a startup parameter".

As best I can tell, there’s no way to make this into a shortcut that you could just click on.

I dont know about Mac, but in Linux you can just manually make a .desktop file to have as a shortcut to call firefox -P, or better a shortcut to a specific profile with firefox -P <profile>. Though what I often do is keep a bookmark to about:profiles and open a new window from there.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I might try this next time I launch. Just launch one, go into profiles, and launch the second one.