HOWTO create additional Firefox profiles

Let's say you wish to have several different Firefox settings. Reasons may vary and I don't want to get into this but I found this feature extremely useful so I decided to make this simple howto.

First open terminal and type:

firefox -ProfileManager

Window will pop out and you will see your Default profile and button which says Create Profile. Click on it and then on Next. Now enter the name you wish to use for this profile and location where it will be located. For most cases it's OK to leave the default location. Click on Finish. Remember the name of your new profile (I'll call it extraprofile, so wherever I say to write extraprofile you type name you gave to profile you just created), select Default profile and start Firefox. Your old profile will open and if you don't want to use Firefox at this time you can close it.

Now go to the top of your screen, or bottom, wherever your launch icons are situated and right click next to one of them. Next click on Add to panel. Then click on Custom Application Launcher. Name it firefox extraprofile and in command field type

firefox -P extraprofile

You can add comment if you wish or an icon so you can differ profiles one from another. Here are some non-default icons of Firefox I found so you don't have to.