This process is more like copying and re-linking. If done correctly, it equates a profile move, a feature FF does not offer within the browser at the moment. You cannot have 2 profiles in FireFox with the same name. Because of this, if you want to keep your current profile name you must rename th...
When a new profile is created, FireFox will give that profile a name or you can name it yourself. When creating a new profile without choosing a custom folder, FF will create a randomly named folder for you in the default location and append the profile name to it. When choosing a custom folder, FF ...
With Firefox, you can delete a profile from the browser but keep the folder that actually contains all of the profile data! In reverse, you can delete the profile folder itself but the profile will still be present in FireFox. Apparently it wouldn’t load because there would be nothing to load in thi...
When you have more than one profile in FF, apparently you will need to load and switch between one or the other on a regular. If you are the only user with multiple profiles, you can do this from within Firefox fluidly. You can also choose which profile you’d like to load before the FireFox browser...
If you already have a profile or two or three in FireFox, managing them is critical to keep your browser experience organized and efficient. For easier reference and more precise manageability, we'll break it down to multiple section: loading and switching profiles, moving profiles, renaming profile...
Your profile maintains its own settings, history, bookmarks, plugins, passwords, themes, etc. FireFox can be used by many different users, each with their own profile. You can also create multiple profiles for a single user. You can use one profile for work, one for research, one for personal use an...
Firefox profiles are custom configurations of your settings, activities and layout within the browser. In a fully active profile this can include your GUI theme, some options, plugins, bookmarks, history, browser activity, passwords and everything else! For each profile, this data is stored locally,...