Comments on: Working with several Firefox profiles

By: Aron Roberts

Aron Roberts — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:14:03 +0000

Transcontinental wrote: “A good feature/extension would be one enabling switching profile from within Firefox itself!”

There is an extension available that performs that task. At least with two profiles, it’s worked well for me, and it seems to work fine - at least so far - with Firefox 3, as well:

Paolo “Kaosmos”’s ProfileSwitcher add-on for Firefox:

https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/profileswitcher-en.html

By: Willem

Willem — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:38:23 +0000

I’m also running Fx2 and Fx3.
I’ve made schotcuts to start them in the right profile.
“C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe” -p “profilename1″ and
“C:Program FilesMozilla Firefox3firefox.exe” -p “profilename2″
This way they don’t conflict with eachother.
With “BrowserTraySwitch” you can make Fx2 or Fx3 your standard browser and that will not conflict with applications starting the default browser.

By: James

James — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:02:26 +0000

I second Randy, and would like to hear more about the security addon that you use, would it be possible to get a listing ?

Thanks,

By: Ken. Mytinger

Ken. Mytinger — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:23:47 +0000

You can open profile manager more quickly by simply typing it into the Command window.

1a. (if desired) navigate explorer the the Program Files\ Firefox or Application Data\(user)\Mozilla\Firefox folders, etc. as desired.

1b. Windows Key + R;
2. Type in “Firefox -p” (without the quotes)

By: Firefox View Dependencies

Firefox View Dependencies — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:32:14 +0000

[...] was commenting on today’s article about using several Firefox profiles pointing out that he would love a list of the security add-ons that I was using in my secure [...]

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:50:33 +0000

A good feature/extension would be one enabling switching profile from within Firefox itself!

Need to say, plugins remain common to all FF profiles…

I have a one and only profile, but now that I read you, Martin, I do consider creating a second profile, should it be only for testing new extensions. Up to now, I would backup FF data in Application Data folder, and restore that data in case of removal of a “heavy” extension. A second profile would make it easier, smarter.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:28:43 +0000

I’d love to get a listing of the security-related add-ons that you use/recommend. This profile approach sounds very useful.

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:01:38 +0000

I use two profiles - one for Firefox 2, and one for Firefox 3 beta.

The idea to use some more for different jobs is quite interesting Thanks for it!