Opening 2 Firefox profiles |was: Re: Tor and Thunderbird: Outgoing Email Unsafe?

[Michael Holstein]

It's easy.

Start your first instance of firefox as usual. Start the second one like 
this : "/path/to/firefox -ProfileManager" and create a new profile (call 
it TOR, or whatever). You'll need to reinstall plugins (eg: FoxyProxy, 
NoScript, etc) under that new profile, but the settings are separate 
from your "normal" one.

Then just set up a shortcut to involke the second instance using the 
-ProfileManager switch, and select the 2nd profile.

GeorgeDS wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 13:23, Michael Holstein wrote:
>> The reason I suggested seperate Firefox profiles is you can have the 
>> "anonymous" one and a "regular" one open at the same time, since routing 
>> everything through TOR makes your highspeed connection more like dialup 
>> (there's always a trade-off...).
> 
> If you could tell me how to do do this I'd really appreciate it. This
> may vary with OS. I've tried multiple times on Linux (CentOS/Red Hat
> Enterprise 3.4) and not succeeded. Once one or more Firefox windows are
> open, the -ProfileManager flag does not appear to be recognized, so I've
> been unable to find a way to get copies of Firefox using different
> profiles to open at the same time. It's a real nuisance to have to close
> a dozen tabs, to do a few things with Tor.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> George Shaffer
> 
> 
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