Is it possible to use multiple user profiles in FireFox portable?
New: Kanri (Oct 9, '24), Platform 29.5.3 (Jun 27, '24)
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Out of the box, FirefoxPortable is intended to use just one profile. It is stored in the \Data\profile folder.
If one was to copy that folder into a second one, perhaps called profile2, then with some careful juggling, they could swap out the directory names so that the second profile was the one sitting in the right place to be automatically loaded when FirefoxPortable started up.
This isn't very elegant. It would be hard to keep straight and easy to mess up. But, it would work, as long as you were careful.
Jim
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
The only reason you would want to have one application multiple profiles is so you can save a little space on a USB drive I would imagine. My FFP is 150 MB and that's loaded with extensions. The App and plugins (Flash files,VLC player, and the PDF app) run 50 MB, the profile the other 100 MB So I beleive that would be close to your space savings, if that's not worth it, it's best to just have as many separate entire firefoxes as you want on the computer. I put six of them on one for a family, you just add their name to both the folder and the firefoxportable.exe file link on wherever you launch it from.
Since I did not want to have to update six vlc players or pdf viewers, I did tell the mimetypes to go to one centralized folder to get the apps.
That's a good idea just to have another FireFox on USB.
My main goal is to have different proxy settings for different environments.
So the only problem left is how to pass saved sessions between different FireFoxes.. So far I'm thinking about saving all opened tabs as bookmarks before closing FireFox, then syncing them with FoxMarks account, then sync another FireFox with it, and open those bookmarks.
Not elegant al all
then take a look at http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/ - simple addon for firefox that allows multiple proxy configurations and easy switching between them.
I use it extensively here at work since I'm responsible for configuring and managing the (currently two) proxies here on site.
I heard about this extension, but haven't tried it yet.
Anyway, as far as I understand, since it is a firefox plugin, you can use it only after FireFox is already started. And I'd like to be able to start FireFox with different proxy settings.