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Accessing Firefox profile name via add-on

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franconbiasin
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Hi!

I've been browsing the web looking for a way to access the browser's current profile name programmatically. I'm writing a little browser extension that should run code conditionally depending on what the current profile is. I'm wondering if there's any way to do this? The closest thing I found was runtime.getBrowserInfo() runtime.getBrowserInfo().

Hi! I've been browsing the web looking for a way to access the browser's current profile name programmatically. I'm writing a little browser extension that should run code conditionally depending on what the current profile is. I'm wondering if there's any way to do this? The closest thing I found was [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/runtime/getBrowserInfo runtime.getBrowserInfo()] runtime.getBrowserInfo().

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Paul
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Hi

I recommend that you ask about this in the official add-ons forum at:

https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/add-ons/35

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