On Jul 14, 2:06 pm, Steven Roussey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can have multiple profiles open at the same time, you know... so > > > it would be the awful painful process of switching windows. Yikes! > > > Not by default you sure can't (at least, not in Windows). > > This is all over the web, but just to be complete: > > 1. Make a four shortcuts to Firefox. Edit the properties of each one > and change the target: > > 2. The profile manager profile: target should be something like (this > is 64bit win7): > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" - > profilemanager > > 3. Use that to create a Developer profile and again to create a > Banking profile. > > 4. Edit another of the shortcuts and change the target to something > like this (minus the (x86) part if your Window is 32bit): > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P "default" - > no-remote > > 5. Edit another of the shortcuts target: > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P > "Developer" -no-remote > > 6. Edit another of the shortcuts target: > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P "Banking" - > no-remote > > 7. Rename your shortcuts to match the profiles (to your taste).
So easy my grandma could do it! o_O Okay, so I was wrong about it not working in Windows (had no idea about the -no-remote switch), can you at least see how big of a hassle this is now that you've written out the 7 compact steps of the dozens of steps this actually takes? I don't see the point in going through this at all. I have a workflow setup where I use a single Firefox window for nearly everything I do on the web. It is senseless to change my workflow and habits. I don't want a bunch of Firefox windows open (particularly not windows that have different extensions and experiences going on in them), I like knowing that everything I'm currently doing is self contained in one window. > > > I would be shocked to find that more > > than a few developers actually bother having multiple Firefox windows > > open with tons of different profiles for testing. > > Thanks. An easy question to ask when interviewing, no doubt. I'll > remember that. Go for it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
