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How to auto create new profile and open a page using command line in Mac

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In Windows, I can auto create a new FF profile and open a specific page by one command line. In Mac, I assumed the command line is /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P homepageprofile -no-remote https://homepage but I have to configure the profile name in profile manager. how to bypass the profile manager , and use command line to auto create profile and run firefox to open my page? Thanks

In Windows, I can auto create a new FF profile and open a specific page by one command line. In Mac, I assumed the command line is /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P homepageprofile -no-remote https://homepage but I have to configure the profile name in profile manager. how to bypass the profile manager , and use command line to auto create profile and run firefox to open my page? Thanks

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Hi FFQnA,

how to bypass the profile manager , and use command line to auto create profile and run firefox to open my page?

to auto create profile and in the same time to open a web page, i think it is no possible.

to create new profile : firefox -CreateProfile FFQnA (remember no space in profile name)

any luck ?


thank you