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1. #Open firefox profile manager outside firefox how to
2. #Open firefox profile manager outside firefox windows

The "set of applications" that were opened is called session. Stock KDE has always let you save your applications when you close your session or shutdown the computer. Well, there's too much more (like the desktop widgets) than what I'm going to explain here and there are articles that explain better than me. I have to say I still don't understand activities. This just automates profile managers job by passing a variable to specify which profile be added opened or deleted rather than duplicating the work by doing it in kde and then in firefox. You said you don't understand the activity based workflow. It's no different to adding/removing profiles via profile manager. This isn't catastrophic though, its just an easier way of configuring firefox for a specific task, and having it open said configuration when needed. Even if all profiles were deleted, there would still be a backup in the cloud. There's also the point firefox profiles can be kept in sync, as they are in the original post. It would be a good idea to ignore any *.default profiles by default though. Adrian's addition does delete old profiles that no longer have an activity but it also has a way of ignoring specific profiles. My original script is just a launcher, so all deletion was manual. You'd have lost your activities names but firefox profiles can always be renamed to match without affecting their contents.Īccidentally deleting profiles wouldn't be a good thing to do.

#Open firefox profile manager outside firefox windows

(I don't usually move firefox windows between activities so it doesn't bother me).Īll of firefox s profiles are stored in ~/.mozilla/firefox/ so deleting ~/.kde4 would not affect them. If you happen to move a windows between activities it doesn't get the activity changed as you would expect when you get used when you use Konqueror, because you know, Konqueror supports Kde4 activities out of the box. I use the same icon file that runs the special firefoxkde script. It just says that firefox is already opened.

#Open firefox profile manager outside firefox how to

I don't know how to create a new window when you're in a activity where your firefox has been already opened. List of firefox profiles that haven't to be deletedĪdapted to iceweasel (Debian's own firefox fork)Īdditionally I've set up a local firefox sync server ( … ync-local/ ) so that I don't have to sync to the Internet each time I open a firefox instance in a new activity. I want to share back my own implementation found at:ĭelete firefox profiles associated to no longer existant activities at desktop login