Updated 2.1 Multiple Profiles (markdown)

Thorin-Oakenpants 2017-03-28 00:40:07 +13:00
parent 0453ee616a
commit 53f03c3e1c

@ -25,7 +25,34 @@ Here is a [Mozilla Support](https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-and-Update/Us
### :small_orange_diamond: Firefox [Installed] Method 2 [Manual]
blah blah ... edit profile.ini, copypasta profiles, use any directories eg not boot drive etc
In Windows, in your `<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox` directory you will find a `profiles.ini`. With Firefox closed, copy a new default profile, or clone your existing one, and put them anywhere you like (e.g: on a secondary drive). Create as many as you like. Then edit the `profiles.ini`.
Here is an example
```ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=Default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/hcac5r43.default
[Profile1]
Name=ghacks test
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/e6xjz6ty.ghacks test
Default=1
[Profile2]
Name=Hardened
IsRelative=0
Path=D:\UserData\Firefox Profiles\hard
[Profile3]
Name=Relaxed
IsRelative=0
Path=D:\UserData\Firefox Profiles\relaxed
```
### :small_orange_diamond: Loading Profiles
@ -34,4 +61,6 @@ To do this, youll just need to launch Firefox with the `-no-remote` switch. Y
- `TIP`:
* `-p -no-remote` will bring up the profile manager
* `-no-remote -p "profile-name"` will load the profile directly
* `-no-remote -p "profile-name"` will load a profile directly
You can read more about [Concurrent Profiles](https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/wiki/2.3-Concurrent-Profiles) in the next section.