[SOLVED] Creating profile question

[ron_1]

Operating system: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (Excalibur)
Browser version: 34.0.1 SSE2 GTK2
32-bit or 64-bit browser?: 64-bit browser

I hope this is the right board to post this in. When setting up my backup browser, Chromium, after an OS install, I create a second profile by first creating a link on the panel to the currently non-existent profile. The link's command is /usr/bin/chromium --profile-directory="Profile 2". Once the link is created, I click on it and Chromium automatically creates and opens the second profile. My question is can Pale Moon do the same? If so, would the end of the command be the same: --profile-directory="Profile 2", or something different?

[Mæstro]

Using the official tarball, /home/maestro/.palemoon/palemoon/palemoon --p will open a GUI profile manager, equivalent to that in about:profiles without running any profile. The CLI interface, according to its own help file, can run existing profiles (even in other directories), but no instructions are given for creating new ones, and using a non-existent profile name as an argument /home/maestro/.palemoon/palemoon/palemoon -p fumo cannot create a new profile.

[Michaell]

A good reference: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=8933

[ron_1]

and using a non-existent profile name as an argument /home/maestro/.palemoon/palemoon/palemoon -p fumo cannot create a new profile.

Is it something in the way Pale Moon is coded? Because it works with Chromium.

Anyway, the link in Michaell's post gave me enough info to figure out the syntax I needed to make a link point to a certain profile (that already exists), so I guess I'll mark as solved.

[Moonchild]

Is it something in the way Pale Moon is coded? Because it works with Chromium.

Not sure why you expect us to work the same as a completely different application.

[ron_1]

Not sure why you expect us to work the same as a completely different application.

I don't expect it. But it would be nice if it did.