If you are working with multiple profiles in Firefox you have probably your own ingenious way of launching them. Some Firefox users may use shortcuts to launch their profiles, others the built-in profile manager, the command line or an add-on like Switchy If you are new to the concept, I suggest you take a look [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Profile Manager Final Released
You may already know about Mozilla’s plan to retire the built-in Firefox profile manager to replace it with an external program called the Profile Manager. This new program, available for all supported operating systems that Firefox runs on is not only compatible with the web browser but also with other XULRunner-based applications like Mozilla Thunderbird [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Switch and Create New Profiles in Firefox with Switchy
Firefox, like other browsers, saves a profile which contains user preferences, passwords and bookmarks. Browsing history is also saved in this profile. This is useful for finding web pages that you have lost track of or did not bookmark and also for monitoring browser usage history. It is convenient to have your passwords saved, but [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Run Firefox Stable, Beta, Aurora And Nightly Simultaneously
Can you run multiple versions of the Firefox web browser next to each other on a system? And if you can, how can you configure the different browser versions to either share a user profile, or use their own independent profiles? Maybe you have already installed multiple Firefox versions on your PC. If you did, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Create Multiple Firefox Profiles For Specific Tasks
It is likely that the majority of Firefox users are using only one profile in the browser. Profiles are basically separate identities with their own sets of bookmarks, settings and customizations. This makes them very interesting for users who use the browser for unrelated tasks, for instance for work and free time, or for SEO [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Run Multiple Firefox Profiles Simultaneously
This post is a direct response to a comment from the user Digitarius on the post where I detailed my Firefox Security Profile. He assumed that it is not possible to run multiple Firefox profiles at the same time and I would like to use this article to explain how it is possible to run [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Working with several Firefox profiles
Most Firefox users strangely work only with one Firefox profile. Well, I should not say strangely because one profile is of course sufficient for most tasks. I however prefer a different way of working with Firefox. I use several profiles that all aid me in certain situations that I encounter regularly. It takes an additional [...]