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Is it possible to create Firefox profiles via the command line? I need to programatically launch Firefox with different proxy settings. From my understanding, I can do this via creating a profile. However, I don't want to create these profiles manually.
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You sure can!
example:
firefox -CreateProfile john
check out the rest of Firefox's command line arguments.
Once your profile is created and configured you can launch the profile by doing the following:
firefox -P john
John T
Posted 2010-02-04T20:15:51.217
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1The -CreateProfile is not available in recent versions of Firefox anymore. Is there any manual way to simulate this command? – Amir Ali Akbari – 2014-08-30T19:16:20.653
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@AmirAliAkbari From a pseudo-answer by jotomo (who doesn't have enough rep to comment): "This still works in FF 31. If there is an instance of Firefox already running, the -no-remote option must be specified as well, otherwise the -CreateProfile argument is ignored and FF just opens another window."
You may get a better response on superuser.com – Brian – 2010-02-04T20:16:32.140