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March 05,
2006
Firefox Essentials: Get To Know Your Profile Even if you're not much of a techie, it's a good idea to know where to find your Firefox profile, what types of files you'll find there, and how you can protect them against mishaps.
The longer you use Firefox, the more little things you'll collect that make your online life easier: bookmarks (known as "Favorites" to recovering Internet Explorer users), a History file listing sites you've visited, saved login names and passwords, and so on. Firefox puts almost all of this information, along with your extensions, browser plug-ins, cache and configuration files, in one place: your profile folder. Even if you're not much of a techie, it's a good idea to know where to find your profile, what types of files you'll find there, and how you can protect them against mishaps.
Meet Your Profile Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ Linux: ~/.mozilla/firefox/ Windows XP/2000: C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
(Note: You may not see the Application Data
folder where it's supposed to be. That's
because Windows hides this folder, and many
others, by default. To see it, click Tools on
your Windows Explorer menu, click Folder
Options, select the View tab, click the "Show
hidden files and folders" radio button, and
click OK.)
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