Launching WWW::Mechanize::Firefox with a certain profile

tomgracey has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks, I've been playing around with WWW::Mechanize::Firefox, and it's all going rather well - except I'd like to be able to launch the browser and have it select the profile of my choice when it loads. Does anyone know if this can be done and if so how? I couldn't find anything in the documentation about it and a web search didn't get me very far either. Thanks...

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Re: Launching WWW::Mechanize::Firefox with a certain profile by Corion (Patriarch) on May 05, 2011 at 12:32 UTC
So far, there is no immediate support for that. Either find out how to pass the profile of your choice via the command line, and launch Firefox through a custom command line, or find out what Javascript code is needed to switch a profile and tell me... Update: firefox profile command line tells me that https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options has the information: `-P "My Profile"` [download] or `-profile "/path/to/profile"` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Launching WWW::Mechanize::Firefox with a certain profile by nysus (Parson) on Apr 20, 2016 at 00:58 UTC
I needed to have several FF instances running at the same time so I set up profiles in Firefox for each instance of FF needed and launch them like so: `$mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new(launch => ['firefox', '-P', "Prof +ileName", '-repl', '4244'], repl => 'localhost:4244');` [download] Each profile set up in Firefox will need to have the MozRepl add-on installed and also have a different port number set for repl. The port number for repl can be changed from the FF menu in Tools -> MozRepl -> Change port. $PM = "Perl Monk's"; $MCF = "Most Clueless ~~Friar~~ ~~Abbot~~ ~~Bishop~~ ~~Pontiff~~ ~~Deacon~~ Curate"; $nysus = $PM . ' ' . $MCF; Click here if you love Perl Monks	[reply] [d/l]