There were a lot of bug fixes in Firefox’s 1.0 release. Unfortunately, the profile manager didn’t come through unscathed. I bypassed the profile manager’s buggy performance via the terminal.
Mozilla documentation tells you to launch the profile manager using this path that dives in the Firefox package: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox - ProfileManager . While this works (mostly) the optional parameters -p Profilename and -profile don’t work at all.
Instead, I found that /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/
firefox-bin -p Profilename worked excellently. The -profile and -p “profile/location” flags work on firefox-bin as well.
To have some real fun, use this code to make a a faceless AppleScript that launches the profile of your choice:
do shell script “/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/
firefox-bin -pProfilename”end do shell script
If Firefox is already running, it will open another Firefox and the script itself will run until the additional Firefox is quit.
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