There are tons of resources that tell how to run several instances of Firefox in parrallel. I can't find any that tells me how to configure a command (on a command line, start menu item, or panel button) so that:
- the first click opens Firefox with a predetermined profile <--(this works!)
- subsequent clicks opens new Firefox windows for that same profile <--(how?!?)
Essentially the same as choosing "File->New Window" in Firefox, except triggered from a command line. To be explicit, I do not want to involve other profiles.
My motivation is that I have lots of desktops and lots of browser windows, and often finding that one window for the profile I want is a lot harder than to just click a button that is always going to be in the same place - on the panel.
For the first bullet, I currently use the command "firefox --no-remote -P "thisprofile" %u" and it has always worked as intended. However, for the second bullet, I invariably get the error "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system".
Clarification: I have two panel buttons that start separate Firefox profiles. These use "firefox --no-remote -P "ThisOrThatProfile" %u". If I omit any other parameters and just supply "--new-window", it correctly starts new windows of the default profile (whether that profile is already running or not). The thing is, I cannot figure out how to start new windows for specific (non-default) profiles.
firefox --new-window
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