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I want to run two or more firefox processes under the same user at the same time

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My setup: A laptop running Fedora 20 and Gnome 3. I would really like to have a Firefox window on the laptop screen, and at the same time another one on the VNC client I am running on another computer. Both under the same user account. Closing one of the firefox windows is a very poor solution, as I would lose all the tabs I opened, in addition to the hassle.

Is that possible at all? If yes, how? And if not, can you suggest workarounds?

My setup: A laptop running Fedora 20 and Gnome 3. I would really like to have a Firefox window on the laptop screen, and at the same time another one on the VNC client I am running on another computer. Both under the same user account. Closing one of the firefox windows is a very poor solution, as I would lose all the tabs I opened, in addition to the hassle. Is that possible at all? If yes, how? And if not, can you suggest workarounds?

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Hi berndbausch, Have you used Firefox Sync? Tabs are synced accross computers and found in about:sync-tabs or History > Tabs from other devices.

How do I set up Sync on my computer?

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Is this what you want?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multifox/ Multifox 2.2.0 No Restart by jhultmann

Multifox is an extension that allows Firefox to connect to websites using different user names. Simultaneously!

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You can use the -no-remote command line switch to open another Firefox instance with its own profile and run different Firefox instances simultaneously, but do not use -no-remote to start the default browser with the default profile.

See also Remote Control:

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Thanks! All three suggestions look like they could at least partially solve my problem or work around it; I will try them out.