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How to allow multiple instances with 2nd profile?

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ShalaMala
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How to allow multiple instances with 2nd profile?

Putting the FirefoxPortable.ini in FirefoxPortable folder and setting AllowMultipleInstances=true allows me to start multiple instances of FirefoxPortable.
But when I want to start FirefoxPortable2ndProfile while FirefoxPortable is already running it wouldn't start, saying that another instance is already running. How can I enable FirefoxPortable2ndProfile to allow multiple instances? I tried putting the FirefoxPortable.ini in the FirefoxPortable2ndProfile folder and setting AllowMultipleInstances=true like in my previous case, but it doesn't work!

thany
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I think this is a limitation

I think this is a limitation in Firefox, not in PA...

Liandri
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Is it really impossible? Like

Is it really impossible?
Like using the " -no-remote" switch of Firefox in the launcher of 2ndProfile app?
I'm really interested in this way too, to be able to launch multiple Firefox with different profiles.

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you cant

Because Firefox has no way of knowing which instance you mean.

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barky
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can have 2 firefox based browsers running off the PA menu ...

.... firefox portable & comodo icedragon side by side, only works because one runs firefox.exe & the other icedragon.exe
doubt that icedragon runs 100% portably though

ShalaMala
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Thanks for the IceDragon

Thanks for the IceDragon suggestion. Acually, once I saw the 2nd Profile "thingy" was using almost the same amount of disk space as Firefox itself I resolved the issue with Pale Moon side by side... but IceDragon seems promising - I'm going to try it out!

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