On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 12:24 PM Stephen Dowdy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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I was not aware that the —class parameter would group icons by the profile,
will be adding that, so thank you.
I totally agree that having a distinctive theme for each profile is
absolutely necessary. Having the name of the profile somewhere in the
Title bar would be great. Ditto for the TaskBar icon.
However, it needs to be easy enough for Grandma and have found
about:profiles is vey buggy, not actually using the profile clicked on.
Profilist addon helped make it easier, but not sure if that is available
since Quantum.
For the ultimate in separation, use Qubes-OS as it makes a separate VM for
each use case by default.
>
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