Asif Youssuff

Opening linked URLs from external apps in the last active Firefox profile

Original Post

TL;DR: Is there a way to quickly switch which profile is ‘current’ so that links clicked from outside the browser (e.g. a password manager) open as a new tab in the ‘current’ profile window?

Context:

I really want to be using Firefox, but am currently a Chrome user. I use Chrome with multiple profiles, but haven’t been able to get the desired functionality in Firefox’s profiles - for simplicity, let’s say I have a Work profile, and a Personal profile.

I often have both profiles open at the same time (music playing from Personal, authenticated in to work related apps in Work, and logged in to respective Gmail accounts on both).

Clicking a link from outside the browser opens the OS default browser to handle the URL. With Chrome as default, the URL is opened in whatever Chrome window was most recently focused, and naturally - uses the same Profile the window uses to open the link.

With Firefox though, the link is always opened in the default Profile, even if the most recently focused Firefox window was for a non-default Profile.

Does anyone have any advice on how to accomplish something like this in Firefox?

Thanks!

My Comments

Does anyone have any advice on how to accomplish something like this in Firefox?

This is not available as a Firefox feature. Copying and pasting works, of course.

There is an open feature request to support this filed to bug 1601351.

If you are using Windows, you can try BrokenURL to route URLs. If you are on Linux, you can try Firefox Deflector.


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