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Where or how can I find the complete command line options for starting firefox?

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fcousin
fcousin
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I would like to have 2 different profiles to start Firefox. I suppose I can do that through the command line, but I failed to find the command line options in the support web site. I work on Windows XP...

Thank you.

I would like to have 2 different profiles to start Firefox. I suppose I can do that through the command line, but I failed to find the command line options in the support web site. I work on Windows XP... Thank you.

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TonyE
TonyE
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These links will help with that:

Venemovil
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Hi Fcousin. 

* If Firefox is open, close it completely by choosing "File -> Exit".
 * Go to the Windows Start Menu (bottom left button) and then select 'Run'. On Windows 7 or Vista, press "windows key+R" 
   * Enter (without quotation marks) "firefox -P" (i.e. firefox space hyphen P ) then click OK

I found this useful information at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows