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