Say I have a window of mostly music that I want to open with shortcut a, and a window of work stuff that I want to open with shortcut b. Is there anything I can do to get firefox shortcuts to remember the windows separately? I don’t want to use chrome or a different browser as the second window, but that would work for specifically what I want to do.

  • TheFool
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    310 months ago

    Yeah search for “firefox profiles”, setting everything up how you described it varies depending on your system but it’s definitely possible

  • ConfusedLlama
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    310 months ago

    Use profiles, as @igorlogius said.

    If you want different shortcuts, use the following command in your .desktop file (assuming you use Linux):
    firefox -no-remote -P

    for example, assuming you named your music profile music, you put the following line in a firefox-music.desktop file you’ll create in ~/.local/share/applications/:

    Exec=firefox -no-remote -P music (in addition to other common .desktop file fields)

    If your firefox executable is not located in your $PATH (for example if you downloaded it directly from Mozilla), then you need to put the path too. for example:
    Exec=~/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P music

    Edit:

    here’s a full .desktop file example for a profile named “work”:
    file path and name: /home/confusedllama/.local/share/applications/firefox-work.desktop

    Content:

    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=Firefox for work
    GenericName=Web Browser
    Exec=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P work
    Icon=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
    Terminal=false
    Type=Application
    MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
    StartupNotify=true
    Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
    Name[en_US]=Firefox for work
    Actions=new-window;new-private-window;
    
    [Desktop Action new-window]
    Name=Open a New Window
    Exec=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P work -new-window
    
    [Desktop Action new-private-window]
    Name=Open a New Private Window
    Exec=/home/confusedllama/apps/firefox/firefox -no-remote -P work -private-window
    
    

    This example will give you “Open a new window” and “Open a private window” options too, when you right click on the shortcut. Also as you can see, you can even set a different icon for each shortcut.

  • ryan
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    210 months ago

    You can have two separate profiles, and two different task bar shortcuts that open up the different profiles. They’d essentially store different user data like history and bookmarks and previously opened tabs, and you could have a music profile and work profile. I did this for work at one point in my life. One helpful thing was making sure they each had different theming to be visually distinct so I could keep track of where to open things.

  • Red
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    110 months ago

    You want to use different profiles.

    about: profiles in bar. New profile (for this time only). Launch profile.

    Shortcut wise I’m sure it’s possible, but I’m not sure

  • rasterweb
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    110 months ago

    I actually run Firefox for all my normal stuff and have a copy of Firefox Developer Edition I use for streaming music and videos so I can keep my “work” and “media” totally separate.