I want to share a profile -- extensions, cookies, etc -- across two firefox processes

I want to share as much of a profile as possible across two separate processes.
Why?
FF seems to accumulate increased CPU load over time; flash seems to affect this more than anything else. FF also seems to grow; again, flash makes this more common.
On Mac OS X, swap space isn't released until the process exits; by having my browser in two processes, I can release some and not have to close all my windows.
Specifically, I'm looking to have firefox processes organized by function: I want to have one FF for my blog and everything related to that blog (the blog page, the google docs pages where I'm editing; the wiki pages that I'm searching for background info, etc), and another for the various forums that I read (lots of text, lots of tabs), and a third for the web comics (lots of graphics, google reader, etc). This setup should allow me to restart the comics or the blog quickly; as my "work in progress" is saved, this doesn't hurt me. In contrast, restarting a bunch of tabs with forum postings will cause session restarts / changes in "new posts since last visit" / loss of posts in progress.
In addition, there are a number of extensions -- stylish and greasemonkey in particular -- where there is significant amount of per-profile state. This is probably the biggest killer -- simply using multiple normal profiles works, but seems to have duplicated overhead from multiple plugins being duplicated. But the whole problem with adjusting things in stylish or greasemoney, and wanting those changes to be global, is the big problem.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder

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