Provide UI to control profiles.ini's General::StartWithLastProfile setting
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(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)
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(Reporter: jwatt, Unassigned)
Details
On Windows it's possible to make Firefox always show the Profile Manager when it starts by adding -P to the shortcut that's used to launch Firefox, as described in SUMO Q&A's and docs such as:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1408869
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles#firefox:win10:fx123
That makes it easy for users to segment browsing instances and select the one they want when starting Firefox.
On macOS, unfortunately there's no user friendly-ish way to do this.
The only option to make Firefox start with the Profile Manager on macOS is to set StartWithLastProfile=1 in the General section in profiles.ini. However, having to find the profile directory and edit a .ini file is not very user friendly for the average user. It could be made accessible to a wider range of people if about:profiles had UI to allow this option to be tweaked. Perhaps a checkbox, or perhaps some sort of combining of the default profile and option to start the Profile Manager into a dropdown?
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Comment 1•8 months ago
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The profile manager you see on startup has a checkbox to toggle this setting. However this UI is not intended to be user visible at this point so this is something I wouldn't want to add to about:profiles.
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