This setting is reached with firefox -ProfileManager -no-remoteĪs noted in the question you referred to.įor more information on the command switches available for firefox see man firefox or the Ubuntu manpages online. You can also get prompted each time for which profile to use by making sure 'don't ask at startup' is unchecked, which is in the firefox ProfileManager settings below. 2) Left click the icon located to the left side of the address bar. This is because it can get confusing if you are using different profiles and you start firefox as normal without using a special shortcut and it just loads the last profile used. 3 Simple Steps to Create a Shortcut to a Website 1) Resize your Web browser so you can see the browser and your desktop in the same screen. Something else I recommend is going to your firefox folder ( mine is /home/mike/.mozilla/firefox) and checking that the StartWithLastProfile setting in profiles.ini is false:

If you wanted to do it manually, the desktop shortcut would look something like this you could create it in a text-editor and name it sktop: Įxec=firefox -Profile /home/mike/.mozilla/firefox/55divdmr.Mike2 -no-remote 2.) AutoHotKey is not able to communicate with Firefox: open FF, then input CTRL + B. Go to the Firefox installation directory (usually C:\Program Files\M. What I've tried: 1.) VBA 'Call Send Keys' from Excel 2010 does not 'act on' Firefox. Right-click on the Mozilla Firefox icon and select 'Send To Desktop (create shortcut)'.

This will launch firefox with that profile and make sure that it doesn't connect to any other running instance of firefox with the essential -no-remote switch. I use this Keyboard Shortcut, and it default opens to 'Other Bookmarks'. With internet explorer, you can just right click on the page and select the option of creating a shortcut.

The command you need for each launcher is, for example: firefox -Profile /home/mike/.mozilla/firefox/55divdmr.Mike2 -no-remote With google chrome, you click on the square menu on right hand top of page, click on tools, then hit create shortcut. You can use your menu launcher creator (or right click the desktop and select new launcher, depending on what desktop you are on) to fashion two new firefox launchers.

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