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I'm running several Firefox instances side by side on Ubuntu, each with a different user profile.

When each of them has several open windows I get a stack of sometimes two dozen windows, which is very difficult to choose from the specific instance I'd like to e.g. open a new tab in.

Is there an elegant way to differentiate between them? E.g. some about:config trick to add a prefix or suffix to the window title of all windows from a specific profile ? (i.e not a universal change for all instances in a resource shared by all profiles).

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The Firefox extension MR Tech Toolkit can, among many other options, replace the "Mozilla Firefox" text that is appended to the title bar to anything you like, which can also include the profile name.

Below is shown how to change it to the name of the profile ("default" in my case).

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thanks! do you have any idea where it makes this modification? I'd like to manipulate it directly, without an extension. – GJ. Sep 12 '10 at 20:04
Nope, but it's easy enough to find out: use the extension once to change title bar, see which Firefox file has been modified, save file, change again and compare to find where the change is done. – harrymc Sep 12 '10 at 20:28

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