News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better. Parent comment

Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by whyoh on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:56AM (#37953781)
Does cloning profiles (by copying an existing profile content to a new folder with a new name) work seamlessly? Or does every profile have some unique identifier that can cause problems if just copied over?

The reason I ask is because I have some basic setup config that I would rather not have to manually re-do for every profile.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by petemir on Friday October 20, 2023 @05:17AM (#37953921)
I did not try cloning, but I do have several profiles whose settings/plugins are synced by using Firefox Sync (you can select which things to sync).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by depressedpanda on Friday October 20, 2023 @06:53AM (#37954509)
In my experience, just copying an existing profile to a new folder doesn't work -- you're backing up your data, but you're not creating a new profile.

So what I typically do is first create a new profile via Firefox' UI, then I just copy the data of the profile I want to clone into the corresponding data folder of the profile I just created.

[ Parent | on HN ]