Multiple Firefox Profiles

Elvy said…

so much love to gina for the great post,
and thanks to louis for the pointer. ^_^

No problem, Elvy gets credit for making me remember that multiple Firefox profiles is possible. I actually have the same problem and without her complaining I wouldn’t have recalled this possibility.

I just tried it now, but because I still have FFox 1.5, I have to use this bit of Windows Scripting hack (stolen from here):

var shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");
var env = shell.Environment("User");
env("MOZ_NO_REMOTE") = 1;
shell.Exec('C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Mozilla Firefox 1.5\\\\firefox.exe -P "Profile 2"');
env("MOZ_NO_REMOTE") = 0;

You need to first start Firefox with “Firefox.exe -P” so you see the Profile Manager, create a new profile (mine is called “Profile 2″), modify the above code to make sure the directory and profile name on the fourth line are correct and save it as a .js file. Double clicking the JS file should execute it using Windows Scripting Host, or if you hate the icon, make a shortcut with Fox’s icon and this command:

C:\\Windows\\system32\\wscript.exe "C:\\wherever\\you\\put\\your\\jsfile.js"

And to make sure you don’t get lost and confused, you can set a different theme for each profile!