multifirefox

README.md

multifirefox: have multiple firefox profiles

Equivalent of firefox -P PROFILE_NAME -no-remote but with the remote enabled.

Multifirefox is a way to have multiple firefox profiles and open links in them. There are multiple ways of invocation:

multifirefox PROFILE_NAME ...

Start Firefox with the profile PROFILE_NAME (or open a new window in the existing firefox instance).

multifirefox [-] ...

Ask for the profile then start firefox (or open a window in the running Firefox profile).

Installation

• put multifirefox on your PATH

• put multifirefox.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications

• run:

    xdg-mime default multifirefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/http x-scheme-handler/https
  

• on GNOME, run:

    gvfs-mime --set x-scheme-handler/http multifirefox.desktop
    gvfs-mime --set x-scheme-handler/https multifirefox.desktop
  

multifirefox

#!/bin/bash

export LOGNAME="$USER"

profiles="$(cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini | grep Name= | cut -d= -f2)"

if echo "$profiles" | grep -Fx "$1" >/dev/null; then
  profile="$1"
  shift
  export LOGNAME="$USER.$profile"
  exec firefox -P "$profile" "$@"
else
  if [[ -z "$1" ]] || [[ "a-" = "a$1" ]] || [[ "a--" = "a$1" ]]; then
    shift
  fi
  if profile="$(echo "$profiles" | zenity --list --title="Choose a Firefox profile" --text="$*" --hide-header --column=)"; then
    case "$profile" in
      dev-edition-default)
        exec firefox-developer "$@"
        ;;
      default)
        exec firefox "$@"
        ;;
      *)
        export LOGNAME="$USER.$profile"
        exec firefox -P "$profile" "$@"
        ;;
    esac
  fi
fi

multifirefox.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Multi Firefox
Exec=/usr/bin/env multifirefox - %u
Icon=firefox
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;