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Firefox has been able to do this forever. It's called profiles. Start firefox with --ProfileManager to try it.


Note that if Firefox is already running, you'll need to use --no-remote --ProfileManager. Details in WONTFIXed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99828.


Fairy nuf. But that isn't nearly as convenient as "File | New Session" for ad-hoc tasks. And I thought only one profile could be in use at once in FF (though that could be worked around with multiple OS users) - am I completely barking up the wrong tree there or is that something that has changed in recent years?




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