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How to remotely open a URL in Firefox in a specific profile?

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Mar 15, 20265285 views
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I have several instances of Firefox with several different profiles running. Among them profiles with the names "software" and "test". I am trying to open an URL from a bash script to have it open in profile "test", like this: However that opens it in profile "software" anyway. Any ideas? Mozilla/5…

Error Output

firefox -P "test" http://www.example.org/

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Sorry for the 3 years late answer, I became interested in this topic just now and found this question. I didn't find a documented solution anywhere, so I checked out the source code and here is a very relevant part: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-ce…

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