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Firefox profiles with different icons in Ubuntu dock

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Ubuntu 17.10 (xorg), GNOME 3.26.2, Firefox 58.0 (64 bit).

I have a few Firefox profiles setup. When I run each profile, I would like it to be a separate icon on the dock. How do I make that happen? Right now what happens is that they are all grouped in the standard Firefox icon.

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answered 1 Year ago disdry · Accepted Answer

Edit profile's .desktop file:

add --class SomeClass to the end of Exec key to change program's WM_CLASS value (see this article)

add new key StartupWMClass=SomeClass to the end of file (see this article and desktop entry specification)

The string SomeClass must be the same in both changes.

Example .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Firefox Test

Exec=firefox -p test -no-remote --class FxTest

Terminal=false

Type=Application

StartupNotify=true

Icon=/path/to/custom/icon.png

StartupWMClass=FxTest

Added in 2022

For Snapped Firefox you can try Parallel Installs:

sudo snap set system experimental.parallel-instances=true

reboot

sudo snap install firefox_parallel --unaliased

cp /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/firefox+parallel_firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/firefox+parallel_firefox.desktop