KDE-Activities support for Firefox

Use seperate firefox-profile for each activity in KDE.

The script below will start a specific firefox-profile depending on the kde-activity it is started from. At first start it will create a new profile based on your default firefox-profile. You can run several instances/profiles of firefox parallel.

Sources:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1074333#p1074333

Script in /usr/local/sbin/kfirefox:
# # Compatability for Firefox and kde 4.x's activities. # by MOber.at # based on: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137941 #


ACTIVITY=$( /usr/lib/qt4/bin/qdbus org.kde.ActivityManager /ActivityManager/Activities CurrentActivity )

bla=$( ls $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/ | grep .default )

DEF_PROF="$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/$bla"

NEW_PROF="$HOME/.config/kfirefox/$ACTIVITY"
if [ ! -d $NEW_PROF ];

then

        firefox -CreateProfile "$ACTIVITY $NEW_PROF"

        rm -rf "$NEW_PROF"

        cp -a "$DEF_PROF" "$NEW_PROF"

        cd $NEW_PROF

        rm -rf sessionstore*

        cd ~

fi
firefox -no-remote -P "$ACTIVITY" "$@"

exit

To add a launcher copy /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop to /usr/share/applications/kde4/kfirefox.desktop and edit each Exec= line in it to point to /usr/local/sbin/kfirefox.

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