Comments on: Firefox Profile Files Explained

By: Foo

Foo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:13:29 +0000

firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote
You can run Firefox like so from a modified shortcut or a terminal/command-line to view all available profiles.
You can find more information in the knowledge base:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

By: Bill Pytlovany

Bill Pytlovany — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:29:57 +0000

Update to previous post… the message where I indicated a user name following the . random filename was remove during the post.
What I’m finding is users which have their profile as random filename dot and their user name.

Any help in allowing me to find this would be great.

Thanks,
Bill

By: Bill Pytlovany

Bill Pytlovany — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:27:48 +0000

I don’t suppose you know how or why some user specific profiles get created or can be identified?

Seems like 99% of Firefox users have their profiles in a folder like xuashdfsd.default but some people have xuashdred.

I’ve seen mention of an environment variable %PROFILEFOLDER% but I have one user who my program isn’t finding her cookies because they’re not in the .default folder.

Thanks,
Bill