Comments on: A couple more cool Firefox tips

By: Michael Sharman

Michael Sharman — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:25:37 +0000

Separate profiles? That’s cool, I’ll have to check that out.

One ‘lightweight’ profile for normal surfing and one plugin heavy one for development.

I like it!

Thanks Garrett

By: Garrett Williams

Garrett Williams — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:59:39 +0000

That is pretty cool.

I recently learned about using multiple profiles via “firefox.exe -profilemanager” from the command line. (it only works if all Firefox instances are closed.) But that’s not the cool part…

You can open two separate Firefox profiles at the same time using “firefox.exe -P profilename -no-remote” for as many profiles as you have created. This means mulitple separate google accounts logged in and open at the same time in separate browsers, etc. Very handy! Separate add-ons, separate themes, etc.

I believe you can also set the path of the profile and make it a network location enabling you to use the same profile from anywhere on the network.

Windows and Linux alike. Make shortcut icons for each profile and life is grand!

By: Ben Nadel

Ben Nadel — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:57:29 +0000

I didn’t know about the recently closed tabs history. That is awesome.

By: Michael Sharman

Michael Sharman — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:34:09 +0000

Ah nice one, I never knew that was there! That’s a much nicer way to do it. Thanks Raul

By: Raul Riera

Raul Riera — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:14:36 +0000

Actually the UNDO for closing tabs is built in without any addons, just right click on the tab bar and click UNDO