Purpose
Because of my somewhat excessive use of tabs—which often contain PDFs'—I use 64-bit builds of Firefox. It has now gotten to a point where I want to use different profiles; one for my research the other for my day-to-day stuff.
Attempt
- Created a new profile called:
Research
, by running Firefox with the-P
CLI arg. - Quit Firefox
- Created two shortcuts following the official documentation; linked to:
[path to firefox]\firefox.exe -no-remote -P "Research"
[path to firefox]\firefox.exe -no-remote -P "default"
- Opened each shortcut
Result
Only the fast profile clicked loaded; opening the second shortcut just opens a new Window in the previous profile. Same happens if I open them with inverse order.
Troubleshooting
I tried linking the shortcuts to different Firefox binaries (i.e.: HTguard, Waterfox, Cyberfox) to no avail.
How do I get multiple profiles to work side-by-side; on Windows 8?
Best Answer
You do not need to install multiple versions of Firefox to do this. If you want to have two shortcuts, one which launches the default profile and one which launches a profile named "Research", your two shortcuts should point to:
[path to firefox]\firefox.exe
[path to firefox]\firefox.exe -P Research -no-remote
It does not matter which shortcut you launch first.
Opening a new instance of your Mozilla application with another profile: