[clug] Firefox default profiles directory.

[Kim Holburn]

On 2013/Oct/24, at 4:28 PM, Brett Worth wrote:

> On 24/10/13 16:04, Randall Crook wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am hoping someone may know the answer to this one.. I am looking to
>> run two different versions of firefox on the one macchine and I dont
>> want the one version messing with the others profiles.
>> 
>> I want to know if there is a file somewhere in the firefox install where
>> I can cange the default profiles location from ~/.mozilla/firefox to
>> something like ~/.mozilla/firefox24 or there abouts...
>> 
>> Any sugestions would be welcome.
> 
> One pretty clunky way to do it would be to mess with the HOME variable in a wrapper:
> 
> $ mkdir /tmp/home
> $ HOME=/tmp/home firefox

#!/bin/bash
HOME=/path/to/firefox24home firefox24 -new-instance -no-remote

> 
> 
> Brett
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