Do these Firefox Profile Manager instructions work for you?

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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manag ... r_shortcut - they don't seem to work for me.

I can help you, I've tried to make a video for you but I'm used to recording videos of my games. Not so much my desktop and the software I had for that wasn't working correctly :/

EDIT: Made you a quick video (Captions are your friends):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-7LiDcD398[/youtube]

What you're trying to do is run a program with a command line argument! An example of this:

I have a converter program "converter.exe" that converts A.jpg to A.tga.

If I run this program directly it will pop up a box that asks me where A.jpg is and then convert it but I don't feel like opening this program.

So, instead, I can provide converter.exe with a "command line argument".

I can do this multiple ways but the easiest way would be to copy converter.exe.

Paste it as a "shortcut" to my desktop.

Right click the shortcut.

Edit it's properties.

Look in the Target: or File Location: box and it should have a path like (Target: "C:/TGA Converter/converter.exe")

You want to edit this Target/Path to accept your command line argument so you edit it like this:

Target: "C:/TGA Converter/converter.exe" -C:/My Picture/A.jpg

This would simply convert my picture to a TGA all while opening and closing converter.exe in a blink of an eye! Cool stuff!
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Now, to do this with Firefox for your profile manager we need to first go to Firefox's working directory. This is pretty easy:

Open your start menu (If you're on windows 7 it looks like a circle with the windows logo in the bottom left of your screen.)

In your search bar type in Firefox

Right click the Firefox object and click Properties.

If you're on Windows 7 you can click "Open File Location"

Now you'll be in your Firefox working directory

Find your Firefox executable, it will be named Firefox or Firefox.exe depending if your computer shows extensions.

Right click it and click copy or you can press the key combination Ctrl C.
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Now we need to paste this as a shortcut to your desktop, so exit out of your Firefox directory and right click your desktop.

Click paste as shortcut!

Congrats, you're mostly done!
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Rename your new shortcut to whatever you want

Right click your new shortcut

Click Properties

Locate the Target: or File Path:

You should see a file path like ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" if you're on a x64 System

Or

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" if you're on an x86 System

now we want to click just to the right of that last " basically at the end of that text box

add a space : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"[space here]

add your command line argument : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -profilemanager

press OK

Close out of ALL your browsers if you have any up this is important!

run your new profile manager!

Or alternatively, just find whatever Start | Run is called in Windows these days (or open up a console prompt) and just type:
firefox -profilemanager

Ah, I just realized "doesn't seem to work for me" isn't specific at all, so... uh, specifically what didn't work was opening another profile with another instance... and I also just realized that there was another page linked to from there that detailed how, using "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P "My Profile" -no-remote

So many realizations, it's as if I had just switched on the light for a darkened room!

I'm glad you figured it out.