Firefox Tip: How to Use More Than One Profile

Want more than one profile for Firefox? Each with it's own set of bookmarks, extensions and customization? Here's what you do.

Right Click on your Firefox shortcut and go to Properties.
find target "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" and add -profilemanager
so it looks like this:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -profilemanager
Now when you startup Firefox, it will load the profile manager so you can choose which profile you want to use. It's that simple.

Want to have a separate icon for each profile, and not have the profile manager pop up everytime? Add -p "profilename" to the end of the target string, so you can have:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -p default and
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -p desult


Want to use more than one instance/profile at a time?
Click Start | Run
type in firefox -no-remote -p "profilename"
That should, of course, be the profile name of a profile that you do not already have up.

You can make an icon out of the -no-remote switch, I just find it much easier to use the run command. And likewise, you can load the profile manager via the run command with
firefox -profilemanager.


Awesomeness!