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Note: Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird don't support a profiles. See this article for how to move your Firefox profile to Portable Firefox. See this article for how to to move your Thunderbird profile to Portable Thunderbird.

Don't proceed until you have found the profile folder that you want to "move". If you haven't done this before, it's recommended that you make a backup of all of your profiles before continuing.

Note: If you are moving a profile with the same name as an existing profile for example, the "default" profile you should use one of the alternative methods given below to move the profile. Although it is possible to rename the existing profile in the Profile Manager and then follow the steps below, if you make a mistake and then attempt to delete the new profile, data loss could occur bug Regardless of the methods used, you will need to find the folder containing your profile.

Beginning with Firefox 3. For more information see Finding the profile folder on Windows and Show hidden files and folders. If you're installing the Mozilla application for the first time on a new PC and want to store the profile in the default location all you need to do is start the application. That will create a default profile. LOL - it looked really good. So I walk away, do some things around the house, get back, startup FF and whoaa, that looks weird!

So what do I need to do to get my theme and plugins working too? Yep, was the next thing I thought ; So I restored my themes and addons. But they don't show :S.

I have had similar. Try disabling them, restarting FF, re-enable them, then restart FF. May take several restarts. And several reboots of comp. Weird thing is that doesn't work either. I'll restore my image from this morning, take a screenshot of all my addons and themes and then give it another try. If it still doesn't work I'll at least know which addons to get ; Silly thing is that passwords etc.

Ah wait - don't need to restore an image. It is addons and themes that I always have problems with too : Everything else always works fine. Manually changing the location in profile. Delete or rename, for example, to profiles.

From the Windows Start Screen, click the Desktop tile. The Desktop view will open. From the Desktop, hover in the lower right-hand corner to access the Charms. Select the Search charm. The Search sidebar will open. Note: By default, Windows does not show the. The file should have an icon similar to a document with a gear on it, and a file type similar to "Configuration settings" or "Application settings". You should not delete the Profiles folder, which should have a file folder icon and a file type of "File folder".

Note: Instead of deleting the profiles. Ubuntu Click the Places menu on the top right of the screen and select Home Folder. A File Browser window will appear. Click the View menu and select Show Hidden Files if it isn't already checked. When you first install your Mozilla application, a profile named default is created automatically you can create additional profiles using the Profile Manager.

These folders are hidden so you need to take some special steps to find the profile folder, as explained below. Starting in Firefox 3. Once you have your profile folder open, you will want to exit your Mozilla application before you start modifying the files within your profile. If your Mozilla application is not running, if the profile is not accessible, or if your application version does not include a "Troubleshooting Information You can then open successive folders to get to the profile folder, as in these examples using the "default" profile "xxxxxxx" represents a random series of characters :.



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