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>from terminal [opening URLs in instances using profile paths] works exactly as expected regardless of how many profile instances are currently running or their state.

That's interesting. It didn't work a couple of years ago, perhaps it's been fixed.

Still leaves that initial GUI profile setup.



You don't need GUI to create profiles.

   ./firefox -CreateProfile "profile-name /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile-path/"


This is a good catch and does indeed work.

  -CreateProfile "profile-name"
also works and will use the default profile path.


Keep it mind, though, if you don't specify path, the profile directory name would be:

    random_string + '.' + "profile-name"
That could prove inconvenient for navigation.

If you want predictable, non-random directory names, you'll have to specify it.


Useful. This is not documented in the manfile or command help text, at least for the ESR release.




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