Getting Multiple Profiles to work on Mac

mac-firefox-profiles.md

Run multiple Firefox profiles as separate Applications on Mac

Creating a new Firefox profile

Open terminal and execute the following to set up a profile:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --ProfileManager

Using Automator to run the new Firefox profile as an application

1. Open Automator
2. Choose File -> New -> Application automator new app
3. Choose Utilities group under Library
4. Drag Run Shell Script to the workflow pane on the right
5. Paste the following script

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P MyProfile -no-remote >&/dev/null

6. Choose "Save as" and save it where you want to keep it

Making it pretty - Change the Application Icon

1. Right click on the saved file and choose Get Info ( or use Cmd + I ) to bring up the Info window. sure that it is not locked (bottom right corner) -
2. Open Finder and go to /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resource directory
3. Open firefox.icns file in Preview (just double click it).
4. Click on the image shown in the main Preview pane, copy it using Ctrl – C, click on the icon in the top of Info window and paste it using Ctrl – V.