When you are working on Firefox, it saves all your private data like bookmarks, history, cookies, plugins and even custom UI settings in a tile file called profile. If you’re using Firefox on a shared computer with multiple users working on it, it’s a healthy habit to create multiple profiles for each individual.
With Profile Manager for Firefox, you can create and manage multiple Firefox profiles, each containing a separate set of user information. Since this feature is not intended for basic users, it is not available directly in the browser. In other words, it takes a bit of passion to unearth it.
See how you can create and manage multiple profiles in Firefox.
Working on Firefox Profile Manager
The Profile Manager is a built-in feature of Firefox and does not require the installation of any 3rd party software to work. Before you launch Firefox Profile Manager, make sure you have closed Firefox completely. Now type: firefox.exe –ProfileManager in the Windows Run Command box and press enter.
When the Profile Manager appears, it will have a list of all your current Firefox profiles along with the Create, Delete, and Rename Profile buttons.
To create a new profile, invoke the wizard by clicking the Create Profile button. In the wizard, just enter your desired profile name followed by the folder where you want to store all your Firefox personal data like settings, preferences. When done, click finish.
The new profile you create will be listed in Profile Manager along with all others effective immediately.
If in the future you need to rename an existing profile, you can do the same by pressing the rename button after selecting the desired profile from the list. Provide a new profile name and press ok.
If you want to delete a profile, just select it and hit the delete button. While doing so, you can keep the profile data files on your computer or delete all files related to the profile.
Keeping all data saved in one profile also helps you during the backup and restore process.
To switch to a different Firefox profile, simply close Firefox, open the profile manager, select the desired profile, and click the Start Firefox button to have Firefox open it for you.
You can always create separate profiles for work and play, for secure transactions (such a profile must not have any add-ons or plugins), etc. You get the picture.
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