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Opening links when having multiple browser profiles

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I created two profiles in Firefox. One personal, another for work. How do I control in which of these profiles to open the links from other applications? Let's say I access a link from Telegram. During the day I would like all the links to open in the work profile, and in the evening I want to open them in the personal profile.

I created two profiles in Firefox. One personal, another for work. How do I control in which of these profiles to open the links from other applications? Let's say I access a link from Telegram. During the day I would like all the links to open in the work profile, and in the evening I want to open them in the personal profile.

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External links are opened in the default profile which you can change in real time by visiting about:profiles and clicking the "Set as default profile" button. Note that to avoid conflict, only one browser session can make changes to about:profiles at a time.

Alternatively you can add the -no-remote argument to the shortcut to ignore external links, this would require launching from separate day/evening shortcuts for each profile.

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External links are opened in the default profile which you can change in real time by visiting about:profiles and clicking the "Set as default profile" button. Note that to avoid conflict, only one browser session can make changes to about:profiles at a time.

Alternatively you can add the -no-remote argument to the shortcut to ignore external links, this would require launching from separate day/evening shortcuts for each profile.

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Hey zeroknight! Thanks for the answer, but it doesn't solve my problem.

The links open in the personal profile, although the work profile is set as the default one.

I tried switching them, and nothing changes.

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Make sure they are not separate installations. Go to about:support in each profile and check that the "Application Binary" values are the same.

The default browser configuration could possibly be specifying a profile which would take precedence. Try re-installing Firefox and re-applying it as the default browser without specifying a profile.

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The value for Application Binary is the same for both:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin
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So, zeroknight was right in the first answer.

I accessed about:profiles from the Work profile, and there this profile was set as Default, although the links opened in the Personal profile.

Then I accessed about:profiles from the Personal profile, where I set the Work profile as Default. Now the links open in the Work profile.

If anyone else encounters this problem, check the about:profiles settings in both profiles.