Fli
06-16-2022, 01:11 PM
Main Firefox/ESR profile window and another instance with different profile/plugins.
Second profile can be done under Linux by copying Firefox launcher menu entry making same new one and modifying command line to have -p parameter. For example:
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u -p -no-remote
(right FF path discovered using command "whereis firefox")
Now after launching it i can see the profile chooser menu.
Selecting my secondary profile it was complaining it can not use it since i am using different (older?) version of Firefox (actually Firefox ESR).
And prompted to quit or make new profile.
SOLUTION:
List profiles:
ls -lt /home/$(whoami)/.mozilla/firefox/
change particular profile file:
nano /home/$(whoami)/.mozilla/firefox/myprofilehere.default-release/compatibility.ini
Prefix line "LastVersion=..." by # character (commenting out). Save
Now it launched profile anyway and i see plugins was active and it restored tabs.
Second profile can be done under Linux by copying Firefox launcher menu entry making same new one and modifying command line to have -p parameter. For example:
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u -p -no-remote
(right FF path discovered using command "whereis firefox")
Now after launching it i can see the profile chooser menu.
Selecting my secondary profile it was complaining it can not use it since i am using different (older?) version of Firefox (actually Firefox ESR).
And prompted to quit or make new profile.
SOLUTION:
List profiles:
ls -lt /home/$(whoami)/.mozilla/firefox/
change particular profile file:
nano /home/$(whoami)/.mozilla/firefox/myprofilehere.default-release/compatibility.ini
Prefix line "LastVersion=..." by # character (commenting out). Save
Now it launched profile anyway and i see plugins was active and it restored tabs.