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I have several Firefox profiles and I have them pinned to my taskbar.

Since i installed windows 7 SP1 I can no longer have both there. Is there a way to fix this so that I can have multiple instances of the same program pinned at once?

Marc.2377
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In case anyone stumbles upon this, it's actually really simple to setup Firefox profiles to group into separate taskbar pins like the Chrome profile manager works.

I like to have a separate "personal" and "work" Firefox profile with separate shortcuts pinned side by side:

• Launch Firefox and go to about:config.

• Add New > Boolean > "taskbar.grouping.useprofile" > true.

• Next, close and relaunch a new instance of Firefox using RUN > "firefox.exe -P [profile] -no-remote"

• Pin this app icon to the taskbar.

• Now, navigate to C:\Users[profile]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar.

• Edit properties on the now pinned shortcut to include the same "-P [profile] -no-remote" in the target.

Repeat this procedure for every profile you would like to pin separately to your taskbar and each profile will have its own grouping accordingly.

MathewCNichols
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You either pin an application or a document to an application. I guess you want the first behavior where you have more than one pinned application on the taskbar itself. I thus suggest you to rename each instance of Firefox and leave the default (in which new links should open) named firefox.exe.

So you have:

  • firefox.exe (new links)
  • social.exe (profile optimized for social stuff)
  • multimedia.exe (profile optimized for music/movies/...)
  • work/school/research.exe (profile optimized for more productive things)
  • ...

Then just change the shortcut properties so that each loads a different profile.

Tamara Wijsman
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Enable this first : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Show-or-hide-file-name-extensions

  • Create an empty file somewhere and call it "firefox1.exe"
  • Drag & pin it to taskbar
  • Rename the file to "firefox1.bat"
  • Shift+Right-click the taskbar icon & select properties
  • Change the target to ".bat" from ".exe" (since you renamed your file)
  • Edit firefox1.bat & add start <path to firefox app>\firefox1.exe
user
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