- Published:February 29th, 2012
- Category:Firefox, linux/ubuntu
To change the location of your Firefox-profile folder (or to move it to another computer):
- Copy the folder of your profile to the new location (the folder mostly has a random name. you can look it up by opening the profile manager (see down))
- Open profiles.ini in the firefox program folder (c:\program files\… on Windows), and change the location of your profile folder.
- Other paths also need to be adapted in ini-files in the profile folder. This is because Firefox uses absolute paths and no relative paths. Use a text-tool to look up the ini-files where the folder locations are stored.
- Try to run Firefox with the profile manager. If things don’t work out (eg: if your profile looks wrong or incomplete); remove the following files in the root of the profile folder. The next time firefox starts, it will recreate these files with the correct file paths.
- compreg.dat
- extensions.cache
- extensions.ini
- extensions.rdf
- pluginreg.dat
To launch the profile manager (linux):
firefox -ProfileManager
See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Changing_Profile_Folder_Location
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