Multiple Firefox Profiles in OS X

Organize your online activity with multiple Firefox profiles. You can have several instances of Firefox running at once, each with unique bookmarks, cookies, and browsing history.

To run Firefox's Profile Manager, launch Terminal and type or paste the following:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --profilemanager
(Mozilla recommends quitting Firefox before doing this.)

You will need to download and install the application "Launcher", available here:
http://www.categorifiedcoder.info/old//tcltk/Launcher/

You can create a file to launch your new profile using TextEdit.
Copy and paste this text into your .txt file:
#!/bin/sh
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P "yourprofilename"

You may need to change TextEdit's preferences to "plain text". By default it uses the "rich text format" (.rtf). More on this here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20406?viewlocale=en_US

The LifeHacker article on which this video tutorial is based can be found here:
http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--manage-multiple-firefox-...

Firefox profiles are stored within your home folder:
home/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles

More about Profile Manager:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
(There's one for Thunderbird too!)

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[erbodystechguy]

Thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for. I will be back later to let you know how it worked.

[rampagetv]

thanks man, really helped. i know how to do this on windows, now mac too :) tnx!