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How to set up, maintain, rename, delete and run profiles.
- For Firefox Portable, please refer to [2.2 Multiple Profiles [Firefox Portable]](https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/wiki/2.2-Multiple-Profiles-%5BFirefox-Portable%5D)
- For more on running concurrent profiles, see [2.3 Concurrent Profiles](https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/wiki/2.3-Concurrent-Profiles)
- For Firefox Portable, please refer to [2.2 Multiple Profiles [Firefox Portable]](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/2.2-Multiple-Profiles-%5BFirefox-Portable%5D)
- For more on running concurrent profiles, see [2.3 Concurrent Profiles](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/2.3-Concurrent-Profiles)
### :small_orange_diamond: Firefox [Installed] Method 1 [Profile Manager]
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This will bring up the profile manager, where you can create, rename, delete and launch profiles.
![](https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/blob/master/wikipiki/profiles01.png)
![](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/wikipiki/profiles01.png)
In this example, the profile `ghacks test` was created in the default `\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles` directory. WARNING: If you choose your own folder location for the profile, select a new or empty folder. If you choose a folder that isn't empty and you later remove the profile and choose the "Delete Files" option, everything inside that folder will be deleted.
In this example, the profile `test` was created in the default `\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles` directory. WARNING: If you choose your own folder location for the profile, select a new or empty folder. If you choose a folder that isn't empty and you later remove the profile and choose the "Delete Files" option, everything inside that folder will be deleted.
![](https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/blob/master/wikipiki/profiles02.png)
![](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/wikipiki/profiles02.png)
Here is a [Mozilla Support](https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles) page, and here is a [How To Geek](https://www.howtogeek.com/209320/how-to-set-up-and-use-multiple-profiles-user-accounts-in-firefox/) article with much of the same, but with lots of pictures.
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Path=Profiles/hcac5r43.default
[Profile1]
Name=ghacks test
Name=test
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/e6xjz6ty.ghacks test
Path=Profiles/e6xjz6ty.test
Default=1
[Profile2]
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* `-p -no-remote` will bring up the profile manager
* `-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.
You can read more about [Concurrent Profiles](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/2.3-Concurrent-Profiles) in the next section.