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Launches a temprorary firefox session
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firefox-temp
#!/bin/sh
set -u
PROFILEDIR="$(mktemp -p /tmp -d tmp-fx-profile.XXXXXX.d)"
[ -d "${PROFILEDIR}" ] || exit "mktemp failed"
firefox -profile "${PROFILEDIR}" -no-remote -new-instance $*
rm -rf "${PROFILEDIR}"
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norpol commented Apr 4, 2018

Via. https://cat-in-136.github.io/2012/12/tip-how-to-run-new-firefox-instance-w.html

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norpol commented Apr 4, 2018

Great for testing browser extensions.

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