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Starting Firefox with a specified profile from the dock (Mac OS X)

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I have different Firefox profiles for each version I have installed on my system and I know I can specify the profile name I want to use like this: Is it possible to create a dock icon or alias with additional parameters (just like in this article with shortcuts on windows)? That way I could have a…

Error Output

/Applications/Minefield.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P minefield

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Fix for: Starting Firefox with a specified profile from the dock (Mac OS X)

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It's a bit more work to do this on mac but this is what you want: Managing Multiple Firefox Profiles in OS X (via Internet Archive WayBackMachine) The custom Firefox icons are still available from Gnome-Look.org

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