Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Create and run multiple Firefox profiles at the same time

Sometime, you need more than one Firefox profiles which are able to use as separate browsers (about cookies, history, add-on, etc) for some purposes? Today we will show you how to create and run multiple Firefox profiles at once but the first you should download the latest version of Firefox at here if you don't have it.

Create, remove, rename Firefox profiles with Profile Manger

  1. Close all Firefox windows if they are opening.
  2. Press key Window + R to open a Run dialog
  3. Type firefox.exe -p then Enter                                                                                                                
    Open Firefox Profile Manager using Run dialog box
       
  4. Firefox Profile Manager window should open and we can Create, Rename or Remove the profiles arbitrarily                                                                                                                                   
    Create, rename, remove the profiles in Firefox Profile Manager

    Maybe you will wonder that how to set up a common settings quickly if we had created so many profiles? Simply, we need only copy all files from this Profile folder to other Profile folder; therefore they will have same settings as language, add-on, etc.
                               
    Choose folder to store Profile data
                                                                                                      

Run multiple Firefox profiles at once

  1. Assume that you had created 10 profiles with names: profile1profile2...profile10. How to run them at the same time?
    - Right click My Computer, choose Properties
    - Choose Advanced system settings to open System Properties window
    - Choose tab Advanced then click button Environment Variables to add new variable with name as MOZ_NO_REMOTE and value as 1

    Add variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE

  2. The end, you copy Firefox shortcut to 10 others with arbitrary names (eg: firefox1firefox2...firefox10) and follow the steps below:
    - Right click above shortcuts then choose Properties
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     Choose Shortcut tab and then add -p + <profile name> to Target property         
       

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