Create & Manage Multiple Profiles on Mozilla Firefox


Mozilla Firefox is the most customizable browser. Thousands of developer & millions of users are part of Mozilla community & makes it one of the best browsers in the world. Very few of us know that Firefox allows us to create different profiles & those can be used together. This is extremely useful when you want to maintain different cache, profiles, Logins, site history, add-on, themes & many more things.

For ex. I can use one profile for my office work, one profile for blogging and another profile for my personal work & social sites. This  feature helps us in keeping things organized 

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How to Create Multiple Profiles on Firefox

1.Press Windows + R.
2.It will open Run window.
3.Now enter Firefox.exe –P and click OK

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4.This will open New window showing default Firefox profile.
5.Create a New Profile & assign a Name and now you should be able to see 2 Profiles.

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How To Create Shortcut For Specific Firefox Profile

1.Suppose you don’t want to see the Choose Your Profile window every time & for that  you can create shortcut for  your new profile by using following command.
2.You can just copy/paste the current Mozilla shortcut , then open up the properties page and go to the Shortcut tab.
3.Paste Following code at the end of Target Box.

-P BlosHippo -no-remote
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4.Replace Blogshippo with your new profile name & press OK. This method works in Firefox 2.2 & later versions.

Mozilla Firefox is the most customizable browser. Thousands of developer & millions of users are part of Mozilla community & makes it one of the best browsers in the world. Very few of us know that Firefox allows us to create different profiles & those can be used together. This is extremely useful when you want to maintain different cache, profiles, Logins, site history, add-on, themes & many more things.

For ex. I can use one profile for my office work, one profile for blogging and another profile for my personal work & social sites. This  feature helps us in keeping things organized 

Firefox create profiles 4

How to Create Multiple Profiles on Firefox

1.Press Windows + R.
2.It will open Run window.
3.Now enter Firefox.exe –P and click OK

Firefox create profiles 2 

4.This will open New window showing default Firefox profile.
5.Create a New Profile & assign a Name and now you should be able to see 2 Profiles.

Firefox create profiles

How To Create Shortcut For Specific Firefox Profile

1.Suppose you don’t want to see the Choose Your Profile window every time & for that  you can create shortcut for  your new profile by using following command.
2.You can just copy/paste the current Mozilla shortcut , then open up the properties page and go to the Shortcut tab.
3.Paste Following code at the end of Target Box.

-P BlosHippo -no-remote
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4.Replace Blogshippo with your new profile name & press OK. This method works in Firefox 2.2 & later versions.

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