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Open 2 Firefox sessions for a single user

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Kissberly02 Posted messages 3 Status Membre -

Hello,

Is it possible to use 2 different Firefox sessions on the same PC with a single user?

Why?

Depending on my activities, I need to have multiple tabs open at the same time, which leads me to have up to 30/40 tabs open at once to avoid having to search for them all the time.

If I had two sessions, I could easily have one with about a dozen tabs and the other with twenty.

I could open only one session at a time (during my activity A and at another time close this session and open the other for my activity B), which would consume less memory that sometimes significantly slows down the PC.

If yes, of course: How?

Thank you in advance

Best regards


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Kissberly02 Posted messages 3 Status Membre 2
 

Yes, it is entirely possible to use multiple Firefox sessions on the same PC with a single user. To do this, you can use Firefox "profiles".

A Firefox profile is a set of preferences, extensions, bookmarks, and other settings that determine how your browser displays and works. Each profile is associated with a different folder on your computer.

To create a new Firefox profile, you can follow these steps:

1. Open Firefox and go to the "Help" menu.

2. Click on "Troubleshooting Information".

3. In the "Profiles" section, click on "Open Profile Folder".

4. In the profile folder, create a new folder for your new profile.

5. Open Firefox again and enter "about:profiles" in the address bar.

6. Click on "Create a New Profile" and follow the on-screen instructions to set up your new profile.

Once you have created your new profile, you just need to open it from the Firefox menu to have a separate session with its own settings and extensions. You can also configure Firefox to ask you at each startup which session you want to use.
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brucine Posted messages 24411 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 105
 

Hello,

I don't see the "need" to have 30 tabs open, but to each their own.

We can't switch between 2 "sessions" that would be saved (that would return to where we left them after closing unless it was unexpected and resulted from a crash).

We can open directly in Firefox via File-New Window.

One trick is to open Firefox twice and switch between the two; you can do this directly from the desktop or from Windows 10 using "Switch between windows," creating a new desktop, which is found by default in the Quick Launch taskbar and if not used, the shortcut can be integrated into the "normal" taskbar by looking for it at C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch.
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aquarelle Posted messages 7185 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   1 311
 

Hello,

It is possible to use the add-on Temporary Containers. Each new tab opened is independent as if it were a new Firefox session each time.
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MPMP10
 

Hello,

Create multiple user profiles on Firefox

Two Firefox profiles open...

 https://lenewbie.com/2015/03/23/creer-plusieurs-profils-utilisateur-sur-firefox/

Once the new profile is created, simply open a second profile without closing the first one by selecting the one you want as shown in the screenshot by using the command "Windows + R" ....
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