No, you can't run SafeMode in one tab, or even one window, and have other tabs or windows open in normal mode with your extensions enabled.

the-edmeister said

No, you can't run SafeMode in one tab, or even one window, and have other tabs or windows open in normal mode with your extensions enabled.

Thanks for the reply. How would a power user like yourself do this for one tab? Use the "Open in IE/Chrome" addon?

Please provide a public link to that page, and describe your problem(s).

Hmm, Firefox does have an old feature of opening an independent session using the startup switch -no-remote. To avoid conflicts, you also need to create a separate profile folder for the second session. If you were to stack the command line switches

firefox.exe -no-remote -safe-mode -P "profilename" -url URL-to-open

that might work. I definitely haven't tested this idea but if I had a need for this, that's what I would try.

Launching that is obviously a bit of a headache. One possibility would be to use the Open in IE extension because you can change the command line from IE to anything you like. Then you could right-click a link or the current page and choose Open in IE to trigger it. In theory.

More info on command line switches: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options

Open in IE: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/open-in-ie/

You can do the preparatory work of creating the second profile using the Profile Manager. The new profile will have your system-installed plugins (e.g., Flash) and extensions (e.g., security suite toolbars), but no themes, other extensions, or other customizations. It also should have completely fresh settings databases and a fresh cache folder.

Exit Firefox and start up in the Profile Manager using Start > search box (or Run):

firefox.exe -P

Don't delete anything here!

Any time you want to switch profiles, exit Firefox and return to this dialog.

Click the Create Profile button, assign a name like ExtraProfile, and skip the option to relocate the profile folder. After creating the profile, select it and start Firefox in that profile. You can do any settings changes that you'll want to use later.

Or... if you do not have the add-ons installed in the ExtraProfile, or they are disabled there, you do not need to use the -safe-mode switch, which would be better because then you could use hardware acceleration and any theme you preferred in ExtraProfile.

jscher2000 said

firefox.exe -no-remote -safe-mode -P "profilename" -url URL-to-open that might work. I definitely haven't tested this idea but if I had a need for this, that's what I would try. Launching that is obviously a bit of a headache. One possibility would be to use the Open in IE extension because you can change the command line from IE to anything you like. Then you could right-click a link or the current page and choose Open in IE to trigger it. In theory.

This approach seems promising! Thanks I'll try.

junkanoo said

the-edmeister said

No, you can't run SafeMode in one tab, or even one window, and have other tabs or windows open in normal mode with your extensions enabled.

Thanks for the reply. How would a power user like yourself do this for one tab? Use the "Open in IE/Chrome" addon?

As jscher2000 explained, I use multiple different Profiles one of which is devoid of an add-ons or other customizations and I have the desktop shortcuts setup with the -no-remote switch so I can run them simultaneously.