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Using `qutebrowser-profile` I can keep all of these in separate qutebrowser profiles. (I in fact also keep them in separate i3 profiles via [i3-launcher](https://github.com/jtyers/i3-launcher) too, but that's another story).\n\n## Installation\n\nClone this repository and add it to your `$PATH`.\n\nThe script depends on `dmenu`. Rofi is also supported and automatically used if available. You can also override, e.g. `--dmenu=\"rofi -dmenu\"`.\n\n### Arch Linux\n\nThere is a [package](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qutebrowser-profile-git/) available in the AUR:\n\n```\nyay qutebrowser-profile-git\n```\n\n## Getting started\n\nTo create a new profile, just call the script:\n\n`qutebrowser-profile`\n\nYou'll get a rofi prompt asking for a profile name (if you don't have `rofi` installed, the script will try to use `dmenu`, and fallback to asking via the terminal). Type one in and hit enter, and qutebrowser will load your profile.\n\nNote that:\n* qutebrowser's window will have `[my-profile-name]` at the start, so you can easily distinguish different qutebrowsers loaded with different profiles\n* qutebrowser loads configuration from the normal location (and all qutebrowsers share configuration regardless of profile, this includes quickmarks/bookmarks)\n* other data, such as session history, cache, cookies, etc, will be unique to that profile\n\nCredit to @ayekat for the inspiration for the approach.\n\n## Other options\n\nHere's the full options list (also available with `--help`):\n\n```\n  qutebrowser-profile - use qutebrowser with per-profile cache, session history, etc\n\nUSAGE\n    Usage: qutebrowser-profile [OPTIONS] [QB_ARGS]...\n\n    Options:\n      --profiles-root TEXT            The directory to store profiles in\n      --choose / --no-choose          Prompt the user to choose a profile, then\n                                      launch it (try rofi, dmenu then fallback to terminal)\n      --load TEXT                     Load the given profile (fails if profile\n                                      does not exist, see --new)\n      --new / --no-new                Allow --load to create a new profile if it\n                                      does not exist\n      --dmenu TEXT                    Override the location of dmenu/rofi when\n                                      using --choose\n      --only-existing / --no-only-existing\n                                      Do not allow the user to specify a new (non-\n                                      existent) profile during --choose\n      -l, --list-profiles, --list / --no-list-profiles, --no-list\n                                      List existing profiles\n      --show-stdio / --no-show-stio   Show stdout/stderr from qutebrowser when it\n                                      is launched\n      --qutebrowser TEXT              Location of qutebrowser launcher\n      --help                          Show this message and exit.\n```\n\n## Licence\n\nMIT\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fjtyers%2Fqutebrowser-profile","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fjtyers%2Fqutebrowser-profile","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fjtyers%2Fqutebrowser-profile/lists"}