Side Channel

Firefox allow us to specify multi profile, other than just the default. This is useful for example to test web application with different users has to logged in into the system. The usage is quite simple:-

will show a dialog box for you to select which profile to use or create new one. But once you have an instance of Firefox running, the dialogue box is not displayed anymore. Firefox (at least on ubuntu because I guess the wrapper script screw up) specify the --remote option to TRUE.

So to get back the profile manager dialogue box, we have to use another wrapper script (wtf ...) to start up firefox:-

I try to put this directly into ubuntu application launcher but it does not work.