Managing various profiles within the Mozilla browser has been one of the most recent skills that the program has acquired, in order to provide new conveniences to the user who needs it.
The company that has been in charge of developing this browser decided to allow this style of configuration, due to the requests it received from the community.
Currently, different accounts can be used within a browser software to manage certain types of activities.
A clear example of this is creating a work profile, with which you manage your professional or bank accounts, while through another personal profile you work with social network sessions and other entertainment platforms. Learning to work in this way is quite simple, so through this article we will teach you how to achieve it.
Firefox Home Access to manage multiple profiles
Browsers such as Mozilla store personal information within file folders known as “profiles”, located within the computer’s disk.
Every time the creation of a new user profile is enabled, a new folder will be created within this space to store the data, which in turn will be executed completely independently of the others.
Unfortunately, the default configuration of the program only allows you to work with one account at a time, so the administrator is the one who helps decide which one to use.
Create a new Firefox user
To be able to manage multiple profiles, you must primarily have more than one. Within the browser administrator you will find the option to “Create a new profile”.
This procedure does not have any type of complication, since the requested information goes from personal data to the configuration that you want to manage within the account. Once you have completed the registration of the new user, it will be automatically added to the “Profile Manager”.
Work with the profile manager
This useful tool can be accessed through the “Run” dialog box, simply typing “firefox.exe -p”, which will launch a Mozilla window that takes you directly to the administrator.
If, on the other hand, you prefer to enter the section from the browser, you will only need to write “about:profiles” in the navigation bar, and then press “Enter”. A series of options will be displayed on the screen that will allow you to manage several profiles.
Among these is the “Create a new profile” button, whose function we have already discussed; modification options such as “Change name” or “Delete profile”.
In addition, there are also two very useful buttons for your purpose, since it offers the possibility of “Run profile in another browser”. This function will open a new Mozilla window, which will be working based on the selected profile.
The other button is responsible for “Set as default profile”, so that the session started is changed and work with the data of this account.
Containers: A plugin that will help you manage multiple profiles
Since the demand for the use of different accounts simultaneously increases daily, the company in charge of Mozilla took care of developing a plugin or extension that will facilitate this access to its users.
Known by the name of “Containers”, it is a plugin that is responsible for opening new tabs with user accounts within each one.
That is, in the browser window you can enable a tab designed to use a specific profile. In this way, in your personal account you can access Twitter, in the professional account to your bank accounts and so on.
Currently it is very beneficial to have tools that facilitate the operation within the Internet platform, even granting an order within the context. Therefore, we can thank Mozilla Firefox for finally enabling this option within their system.
