662025 - [wfh] Add a profile-switching menu

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Tiger.711]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110602 Firefox/7.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110602 Firefox/7.0a1

Add a profile-switching and Sync operations menu in the app-button.
By selecting a profile, open it like 'firefox --no-remote -p %profilename%'

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tiger.711]

Attachment: Mockup

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

It was WONTFIX'ed a long time ago in bug 214193.

But the Profile Manager UI itself will be removed from Firefox soon (see <http://www.ghacks.net/2011/01/19/firefox-profile-manager-to-be-removed-soon/>), and it will be replaced with an application for the people that want profiles (see <http://jagriffin.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/profilemanager-1-0_beta1/>). It will be a bit different though, you won't be able to switch profiles on the fly (which would require a full restart anyway !).

Comment 3

[Tiger.711]

I don't want to be able to switch profiles on the fly. I want to open a new window with a different profile. Something similar to how it is implemented in Chromium.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

That's not possible at the moment - there can be only browser (with 1 profile) active on your screen, as it's used to share cookies, bookmark, history and other resources among the different windows. Maybe the app will allow you to launch multiple browsers (with different profiles), just like the developers have been doing, but I don't know about that.

Comment 5

[Tiger.711]

I talk about params --no-remote
It's already works.

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

That's what I'm talking about too - I hope the application would respect that.

Comment 7

[Asif Youssuff]

Adding [wfh] for people working from home who want to separate work and personal more easily. Seen feedback about this specifically.

Comment 8

[Asif Youssuff]

This WebExtensions Experiment may be interesting for people following this bug: https://github.com/pudymody/experiment-profile-switcher

Comment 9

[Andrei Petcu]

Hi all! I'm interested in working on this. I'm pretty new to ff dev. Who can help me and answer a few questions? Maybe we can chat on Matrix.

Comment 10

[Alex Davis [:adavis]]

I found an extension for this since I've long wanted this too, sharing in case it helps others: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/profile-switcher/