My 2cents...
I'm confused by the notion that running multiple versions/profiles of firefox
is at all difficult -- at least on linux:
{path-to-firefox-specific-version}/firefox -P {profile-name}
--class=firefox_{profile-name} -no-remote -new-instance
is all you need to run an infinite number (as much as your system can deal
with) of versions and profiles as the user you are logged in as.
This should work platform independently, though i don't use MacOS or Windows
much, but i'm sure i have run at least multiple profiles of the same firefox
version on Windows just fine (i don't think the 'class' cmdline arg does
anything on Windows, though, but that's only useful for advanced grouping). (i
know that Windows Registry probably doesn't support multiple firefox installs
simultaneously (other than by "Channel"), but that'd be something Mozilla could
Fix by creating Version-Dependent Registry sub-trees to avoid conflict (i doubt
they are interested in doing that due to the low-payoff)
I usually run 3 or more profiles at once (with hundreds of windows and
thousands of tabs concurrently). As the "Web" has become more weaponized by
"advertising" this gets harder and harder and more CPU and memory intensive,
even with NoScript and the like.
The hard part is keeping it all straight.
I used to use 'showcase' to search down the tab i was looking for, but that's
been deprecated.
I now use "Tab Search" (
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab_search/ )
which does a decent (though not complete) job of replacing 'showcase'
I also useda different theme for each profile for visual distinction (solid
color themes work well, or, for example, if you have a "facebook" firefox
profile, use a theme that has the "f" icon in it.
Unfortunately, firefox makes it darn hard to identify/brand the visual layout
with your profile name. I used to use "Show Profile" to do this to insert the
profile name in the window's Titlebar, but again, that was deprecated by the
new extensions system (sigh). there are others (like "Crappy Firetitle", but i
think that one did something to GLOBALLY affect ALL my profiles with its static
title referencing (grr)).
best thing Firefox offers there is "about:profiles" so you can wade through
your dozens of profiles (for me, anyway), and finally come across the text
"This is the profile in use and it cannot be deleted." to know which profile
that window is using.
Also, the task managers for your Desktop Environment (i use KDE),
theoretically SHOULD group your icons for each firefox individually based upon
the X11 "class" name you specify on the command line, but unfortunately,
KDE/Plasma's icon-only-task-manager has really sucked after KDE3 and fails to
do this properly for me most of the time.
--stephen
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