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Open Firefox with a clean profile
Authored by: CaptnEvilStomper on Aug 19, '09 12:02:45AM

@birddog: You don't necessarily have to keep the extra profile completely clean. The point of the script is just to allow you to switch between a main profile and a secondary profile without having to restart Firefox and without having to use the profile manager. For example, say you're creating a Firefox theme or extension. You could have your main profile for daily use and a separate profile that you only use for testing the new theme or extension. If you're working on more than one extension or theme you could even save multiple versions of the script and create multiple profiles with customized test environments for each extension or theme.

Personally, I wanted a second profile because I'm writing a few different user styles for use with Stylish and I found myself constantly disabling and enabling AdBlock Plus, switching between my current theme and the default one, etc., all of which required me to restart Firefox. With the script I can just open my secondary profile that only has DOM Inspector and Stylish installed and test my user styles in that.



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