Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Make A Profile In Firefox And Manage It,Manage And Create Profile in Firefox


01. Close your Firefox.

02. Now Go To Start --> Run or use Win+R keys and type this:

start menu
run command in windows 7
run command prompt

For Vista/Windows 7
run command prompt in vista


03. This will open Profile Manager for you. Now click on Create Profile... (I have untick Don't ask at startup option, so that you can select which profile to load when you start Firefox)
profile manager

Click Next and now Choose the Name of your profile(marked as 1). You can optionally choose where to save your profile data, just click on Choose Folder... and choose the location , which is useful if you plan on exporting your data and settings to another computer or setup in the future. And finally click on Finish.
profile wizard
profile wizards step


04. You will be taken back to choose the profile you want to work with, as we have previously selected to show it everytime, so whenever you start Firefox, you will be shown below screen, so that you can choose your working profile:
choose user profile

Besides this, you have other options like:
other options in fireox profile manager
  • Rename Profile..., to rename a profile selected.
  • Delete Profile..., to delete a selected profile.
  • Work offline, to loads the selected profile and starts Firefox without connecting to the Internet. You can view previously viewed web pages and experiment with your profile.

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