Creating New Profile - What Would It Contain ?

[Michael]

I have used Firefox with the same profile for ever but have thought of
making a new profile to experiment with that could be deleted at anytime.

Would the "new" website history,bookmarks,websites etc be downloaded to
the profile folder or would they go to another folder on my computer ?

With Opera which I also like you can do a USB install on the "C" drive
and ALL files, everything will be downloaded to the main Opera folder
and subsidiary folders within it. When I occasionally get fed up with
Opera I just delete the Opera folder and everything is gone.

Hence my question would deleting a new Firefox profile folder have the
same effect ?

Michael.

[Wolf K.]

On 2017-06-15 09:31, Michael wrote:
> I have used Firefox with the same profile for ever but have thought of
> making a new profile to experiment with that could be deleted at anytime.
>
> Would the "new" website history,bookmarks,websites etc be downloaded to
> the profile folder or would they go to another folder on my computer ?

The Profile will fill up as you use it. It starts out "empty".

> With Opera which I also like you can do a USB install on the "C" drive
> and ALL files, everything will be downloaded to the main Opera folder
> and subsidiary folders within it. When I occasionally get fed up with
> Opera I just delete the Opera folder and everything is gone.
>
> Hence my question would deleting a new Firefox profile folder have the
> same effect ?

Yes.

BTW, you can set FF to clean the cache etc on exit, you can delete the
history manually (with some control over what's deleted), and utilitiess
like CCleaner will clean the FF cache.

> Michael.



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[WaltS48]

On 6/15/17 9:31 AM, Michael wrote:
> I have used Firefox with the same profile for ever but have thought of
> making a new profile to experiment with that could be deleted at anytime.
>
> Would the "new" website history,bookmarks,websites etc be downloaded to
> the profile folder or would they go to another folder on my computer ?
>

If you did a Refresh Firefox, bookmarks, passwords and open tabs would
be saved.

An Old Firefox Data folder is created on the desktop which contains the
old profile folder if you wanted to restore it.

<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings>

> With Opera which I also like you can do a USB install on the "C" drive
> and ALL files, everything will be downloaded to the main Opera folder
> and subsidiary folders within it. When I occasionally get fed up with
> Opera I just delete the Opera folder and everything is gone.
>
> Hence my question would deleting a new Firefox profile folder have the
> same effect ?
>
> Michael.

Sorry, I have no experience with Opera.

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[Big Al]

Look at your current Firefox folder in AppData, you'll see a profiles
folder and under it some folder with 9374af72.default of such.
If you make a new profile, there will be another folder there and so on
and so on. You can have many profiles. Each one contains it's own
data and unless you turn on sync and sign into an account, they never
will mix with each other.

Use firefox -P to set up and delete profiles.

[Keith Nuttle]

On 6/15/2017 9:46 AM, Wolf K. wrote:
>
> BTW, you can set FF to clean the cache etc on exit,

You can delete many things on exiting Firefox.

In Options, Privacy: History

Check: Clear History when FireFox closes,

then go to settings and select the items that you want cleared:
Item to be selected are
Browsing and Download History
Active Logins
Form and Search History
Cookies
Cache
Site Preferences
Offline website Data.

[Mark12547]

In article <mailman.399.1497540797.27966.support-
fir...@lists.mozilla.org>, Big...@invalid.com says...

> Use firefox -P to set up and delete profiles.
>

Rather than messing with shortcuts or doing manual launchings, I usually
use about:profiles to manage my profiles.

If one wants Firefox to start with a non-default profile, the -P switch
is still needed so the default profile isn't accessed, e. g., this is
the target from the shortcut of my install of Nightly:

"C:\Program Files\Nightly\firefox.exe" -P "Test_Nightly" -no-remote

The Test_Nightly being the profile I had set up for use by Firefox
Nightly. (I had to do this to get a good report to open a performance
bug.)

[Michael]

OP Here

Basically I would only want the new profile for a few weeks at most and
wanted a method to delete everything connected with the non default
profile. As I said before with Opera if you do a USB installation on the
"C" drive you only have to delete the Opera folder and that's it.

I see that if you delete a Firefox profile in for example
users/michael/appdata/roaming/mozilla/firefox/profile this would not
delete internet cache for the profile because that's in
users/michael/appdata/LOCAL/mozillafirefox/profiles

For all I know there could be other stuff related to the deleted profile
on my machine even if I delete the above.

I am a user who does not want to experiment and see what happens but
certain extensions only work with Firefox and Internet Explorer and I'm
not going to use IE.

Michael

[Wolf K.]

To delete the cache, either set FF to do so on exit, or use a cleaner
like CCleaner.