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I'd like to have the option as I had in Firefox to choose which profile I want to open, have not stumbled across a way to do that with PM and Linux Mint 17.3 Tried adding "palemoon %u -p" to the launch icon but that did not work. Any easy way to enable this and import another profile?

I think launching with the -profilemanager flag [Edit: Or -P] should let you do what you want to do. I would also recommend this extension, based on code taken from SeaMonkey.

you need to use either the "-no-remote" or "-new-instance" option. They're effectively identical. It's mentioned in the output when you run "palemoon -h" from the commandline in a terminal. E.g. to launch a profile named "youtube", you'd need to do something like...

palemoon -no-remote -p youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_2gbGXzFbs

I have a whole slew of profiles, not all open at the same time.

To open multiple instances of Pale Moon with different profiles, you need to do what Walter Dnes said. If you just want multiple profiles, and to use one at a time, the flags I mentioned are enough.

zack wrote:Tried adding "palemoon %u -p" to the launch icon but that did not work

Explain, this "launch icon" (& what gets passed in %u)?

Anyhow, the -P switch does work, does bring up the Profile Manager.
If PM is already running, running palemoon -P would not have an affect.


[quote="Walter]"-no-remote" or "-new-instance" option. They're effectively identical.[/quote]
That may not be the case - in Windows? (Actually hard to say offhand. Over time, the meaning of the switches changed, maybe even changed back - on the Mozilla end, & may also differ by OS. And then throwing a particular PM version into the equation & which meaning may have been in force at the time of that particular PM version ...)

I found what I was after. I edited the tray icon and removed the" palemoon %u -p" line from the command line. Replaced it with the command I used in the desktop link I had created long ago to do multiple profiles open at once " palemoon -new-instance " and it brings up the dialog about choosing a profile as I wanted.

Thanks for the info-

Cool!