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the-edmeister's
Firefox Advice
Edit your profiles.ini file
Q: Why would a user want to or need to edit the profiles.ini file?
A: To let the Profile Manager know that you
have added a Profile to your Profiles folder;
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thru importing a Profile from another installation.
or
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have imported a Profile from another machine.
or
- thru
Cloning a Profile.
or
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to reflect changing the location of the
entire Profile folder to a different folder or logical drive.
Firefox must be closed when performing these modifications!
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Find the file named profiles.ini that resides
in the same folder as your Profile folder is located.
as in
C:\path-to\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\
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Open the profiles.ini file in a text program such as Notepad.
Profiles.ini Sample 1
- Immediately upon opening profiles.ini do a
"File" > "Save as..."
to save the file as a backup with a suffix such as
.bak or .old.
- Create a new entry in profiles.ini as shown in
Profiles.ini Sample 2
new entry = [Profile4]
to reflect your new ( or cloned ) Profile.
Profile name tip = use no spaces within a name
use an underscore _ or a hyphen - instead.
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Save your modified file as profiles.ini in the original location.
When starting Firefox use the Profile manager switch
-p in the command box.
( Note: If -p doesn't work, use
-ProfileManager instead. There must
be a space between the quote ending the path-to and the hyphen.)
as in
->Start>Run>
"C:\path-to\firefox.exe" -p
or you can start Firefox directly
with the cloned, imported, or moved Profile
like this
->Start>Run>
"C:\path-to\firefox.exe" -p "profilename"
last updated 04-03-05
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