Start browser with selected Person

[Pandorino]

I have three different Vivaldi people: one for me, one for work, and one for my wife.
Since we use the same laptop, it would be handy to open the browser directly with a specific person.

Currently one has to

1. open the browser with the last used person
2. switch to the desired one (which will open a new window)
3. close the previous window with the unwanted person

I think that it would be great to have:

• A way to right-click the Vivaldi icon and select a person from there
• A way to save on the desktop specific shortcuts for different people

(I use Vivaldi on MacOs and Linux)

Thanks

[LonM]

@Pandorino Hi, this is already possible:

1. Type chrome://settings/manageProfile in address bar
2. Turn on "show desktop shortcut"
3. Repeat for the other profiles

does this work?

[A Former User]

Also, this seems to be (partly?) a duplicate of these requests (which are one (partly?) duplicate of the other )

• https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/36669/profile-set-default-startup-profile
• https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/36029/better-profile-management

[Steffie]

@LonM Um...

Spoiler

[A Former User]

@Steffie Interesting, I think I’ve seen it also under Linux (though it was a looong time ago so I may be wrong).

Anyway, we have the --profile-directory switch.

[Steffie]

@potmeklecbohdan That's very cool - ta muchly.

steffie@archlinuxTower[~] 23:49:24 Tue Oct 06 $> firejail --blacklist=/Seagate* -- vivaldi-stable --disk-cache-dir=/tmp/vivaldi-stable-cache --force-device-scale-factor=1 --profile-directory

Helluva custom launcher i'm growing here; a tad longer again of course for Snapshot.

[A Former User]

@Steffie said in Start browser with selected Person:

--profile-directory

I was about to inform you that this does nothing & should be used like --profile-directory="Profile 10", but I’ve tried it… and…

Thank you for posting the launcher coz otherwise I wouldn’t discover this possibility (actually I think I’ve known this earlier, but I seem to have forgotten this).

[Pandorino]

Thanks all for the answers.

@Steffie @potmeklecbohdan I'll try it on Linux, I'm not a very expert Linux user and I'd rather not reach out to the terminal. That's why I made the request. Thanks also for pointing me to similar requests.

@LonM I think is only Win, I tried this on Linux with no success.

[LonM]

@ everyone who says this doesn't work on linux, apologies for the misleading suggestion!

I have filed a bug internally for this - VB-72760

Please do vote for the original request if you'd like for this to be available for other platforms!

[A Former User]

@Pandorino said in Start browser with selected Person:

I'd rather not reach out to the terminal

You can easily create a desktop (or menu) shortcut for it. Ignoring all the translations & other actions (new (private) window) which you can get yourself from /usr/share/applications/vivaldi-snapshot.desktop (both in the file name & in the file content I assume the use of V-snapshot)

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Vivaldi (snapshot)
GenericName=Web Browser
Comment=Access the Internet
Exec=/usr/bin/vivaldi-snapshot --profile-directory %U
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Icon=vivaldi-snapshot
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=application/pdf;application/rdf+xml;application/rss+xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xhtml_xml;application/xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;image/webp;text/html;text/xml;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/mailto;

To have it on the desktop, save it e.g. as ~/Desktop/vivaldi-custom.desktop, to have it in the menu, save it to ~/.local/share/applications/vivaldi-custom.desktop (if you want to override the default launcher, use the same file name (vivaldi-snapshot.desktop).

You could play with it even more & make it launch the profile manager by default, with specific profiles available in the context menu.

[A Former User]

@LonM I think a new, specific request should be made (i.e. something like allow desktop shortcut creation on Linux/macOS (if it doesn’t work under mcOS either)).

[Steffie]

@potmeklecbohdan Yes it's quite cool, isn't it, in presenting us with that initial selector window. I was pretty pleased when i saw that... & i'd not have known about it but for your kindness in telling me of that switch*.

* I hope to remove at least a little bit of my ignorance by learning from this:
https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

[Steffie]

@LonM said in Start browser with selected Person:

@ everyone who says this doesn't work on linux, apologies for the misleading suggestion!

Oh it's fine, please don't worry. I feel pretty confident that in about a decade or so most of us, scarred & broken at the moment by your crushing misdirection, might be able to reduce our medication & begin trusting strangers again. Maybe.

[LonM]

Thank you for your request. As this post has had less than 5 votes over 4 years it will now be archived. You can make a new request if you feel it is still needed in the browser.