Open Bug 1559816 Opened 6 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Running multiple profiles on macOS

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, enhancement, P5)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Startup and Profile System
Version:
67 Branch
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: someperson, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

There's a problem with using multiple profiles on macOS — they behave as browsers, creating additional icons in the tray, instead of working as additional windows. I have 9 profiles for different purposes. That would be 9 icons in the tray! This is the only problem that keeps me from using Firefox as a main browser. Would you kindly make Firefox behave the same as it does on Windows and Linux? Please? Pretty please with ice-cream on top?

Actual results:

N/A

Expected results:

N/A

I believe that this is just how OSX works and we don't really have a way to change this.

Priority: -- → P5

FWIW, I love this behavior of Firefox in macOS, so I would prefer this not change.

It would be super useful an easy behavior similar to chromium to create/separate and switch from a profile to another.

Type: defect → enhancement
Severity: normal → S3
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