Firefox tips
Rose Vines' favourite tips for making the most of Firefox and
Thunderbird
Finding your profile
Multiple users on the same computer can each have their
own settings in Mozilla and Firefox. Those settings are stored as
user profiles. Many of the settings you can change directly from
within the browser using the various menus and options; advanced
users can change thousands of other settings by directly editing
preference files within the appropriate profile folder.
The first trick is locating your profile folder; both Mozilla and
Firefox bury them away. To locate the default profile for Firefox
in Windows XP or Win2k, it's: %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.xxx\
where xxx is a random string of three characters and %appdata%
is your personal Application Data path. The easiest way to find
the appdata path is to click Start —> Run, type %appdata%
and click OK to open the folder. Then dig down through the Mozilla,
Firefox folders, and so on, until you get to the appropriate profile
folder. If you've created profiles for other users, they'll be named
with a random string of characters followed by a full stop and the
user's name, such as wsmkaii3.Rose.
In earlier versions of Windows you'll find the default profile
in C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.xxx\.
Mozilla stores the profile in Windows XP/2000 in: %appdata%\Mozilla\Profiles\username\xxxxxxxx.slt
where username is your Mozilla user name and xxxxxxxx
is a random string of eight characters. Under earlier versions of
Windows, the Mozilla profiles are in: C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\username\xxxxxxxx.slt.
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