It may be easy on your system but not mine. I've read this works on Windows. My experience is that it does not on Linux. I've used -ProfileManager with firefox on the path, with the entire explicit path to firefox, and switching to the firefox directory and using ./firefox. I've tried this on Linux, CentOS 3.3 and 4.4, which should be functionally identical to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.3 and 4.4. I've even cut and pasted -ProfileManager from the Firefox Help: How To Manage Profiles page to assure I was spelling and capitalizing it correctly. The 3.3 system is much older but fully patched. The -Profilemanager switch has never worked once any Firefox window is open. On the 3.3 system, I have three quite different profiles, including one specific to Tor, that I can switch between, but I've never succeeded in opening two Firefox windows using different profiles at the same time. If there is anyone who has solved this problem on a similar **Linux** system, I'd like to know how. Thank you, George Shaffer On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 08:51, Michael Holstein wrote: > It's easy. > > Start your first instance of firefox as usual. Start the second one like > this : "/path/to/firefox -ProfileManager" and create a new profile (call > it TOR, or whatever). You'll need to reinstall plugins (eg: FoxyProxy, > NoScript, etc) under that new profile, but the settings are separate > from your "normal" one. > > Then just set up a shortcut to involke the second instance using the > -ProfileManager switch, and select the 2nd profile. > > GeorgeDS wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 13:23, Michael Holstein wrote: > >> The reason I suggested seperate Firefox profiles is you can have the > >> "anonymous" one and a "regular" one open at the same time, since routing > >> everything through TOR makes your highspeed connection more like dialup > >> (there's always a trade-off...). > > > > If you could tell me how to do do this I'd really appreciate it. This > > may vary with OS. I've tried multiple times on Linux (CentOS/Red Hat > > Enterprise 3.4) and not succeeded. Once one or more Firefox windows are > > open, the -ProfileManager flag does not appear to be recognized, so I've > > been unable to find a way to get copies of Firefox using different > > profiles to open at the same time. It's a real nuisance to have to close > > a dozen tabs, to do a few things with Tor. > > > > Thanks. > > > > George Shaffer -- Get my GnuPG public key from http://geodsoft.com/about/ or use gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key A1A23194
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