Reviews for Profile Switcher for Firefox
Profile Switcher for Firefox by nulldev
170 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by olivrrstray, 8 months agoBroken with the March 19th update, 124.0.
Edit:
For the more tech savvy, there is a workaround on Issues tab on the Github page.
For the less tech savvy who have Windows:
1. Hit Windows + R.
2. Put "%APPDATA%\nulldev\FirefoxProfileSwitcher\config\" in the prompt, and hit "ok." This will open the folder with configuration files.
3. Copy the path; this is the address in the top bar. It should look similar to this:
C:\Users\[yourusername]\AppData\Roaming\nulldev\FirefoxProfileSwitcher\config
4. Open the notepad app, create a new file. Paste the following text in the notepad:
{"browser_binary": "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe"}
5. Open the File menu, click Save As.
6. In the address bar, paste the address you saw before, and change "Save as type" from Text documents to all files. You should see files like "avatar.json"
7. Save the file as: config.json
8. Reopen Firefox - Rated 4 out of 5by Nazmond, 8 months agoWas working well but now unresponsive, cannot access my other profile.
Update - fixed it thanks to olivrrstray's short guide. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18335913, 8 months agoIt was working fine but recently my clicks have been non responsive. I'm locked out of my other profile and am unable to access any of my bookmarks
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17504116, 8 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18334926, 8 months agoIt worked fine until Firefox version 124. Now it doesn't react on when I want to switch profile.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18274881, 9 months agoTook a minute to setup, but once done its an awesome experience! btw im on a Macbook Pro 2019 Intel I7
- Rated 5 out of 5by bobanderson, 10 months agoWorks flawlessly on m2 pro macbook running Sonoma, honestly insane that this hasn't been implemented natively yet
- Rated 5 out of 5by anon, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by libertycrrbc, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jaden, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18155848, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by akasico1, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18128476, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13114229, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zein Adi, a year agoWork really nice on Windows 11. Really solve the multi-profile browser problem. But need some installing some .exe extension from github.
For those with FF 124.0 that broke this plugin. Here's how to fix this temporarily:
1. Hit Windows + R.
2. Put "%APPDATA%\nulldev\FirefoxProfileSwitcher\config\" inside the prompt, and hit "ok." This will open the configuration folder. The address should look like this:
C:\Users\[yourusername]\AppData\Roaming\nulldev\FirefoxProfileSwitcher\config
You should see avatar.json and profile-options.json
3. Right click anywhere inside the "config" folder, and create new text document. Name it "config.json".
4. Open config.json (with notepad) and paste the following text into config.json:
{"browser_binary": "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe"}
5. Save.
6. Reopen FF.
credits to: olivrrstray - Rated 4 out of 5by Jonathan Lee, a year agoWorks well but requires some initial setup and basic knowledge of how Firefox profiles work. It would be nice if this extension allowed users to upload their own profile picture and/or offered the option of using each Firefox account's avatar as the profile picture.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Naw, a year agoPlease make this work with forks of firefox, e.g. LibreWolf or Waterfox. You have plenty of people on your github describing the issue, who have been reporting it for months.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17980893, a year agoI followed the instructions but in the end the switcher didn't work (Ubuntu 22.04).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ken Chou, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13518975, a year agoVery good addon, simple and straightforward. Only 4 stars because I couldn't figure out a way to pick my own profile picture, which would make it perfect IMO. Should be a native part of Firefox.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ricardo Gouveia, a year agoCool. It works nicely. Firefox should really make this a native feature.
- Rated 1 out of 5by DeAndre Queary, 2 years agoThis royally screwed up my Firefox to the point it would not open unless I created a completely new profile erasing every setting. Thank god I had a backup of my Firefox profile. I really wish mozilla would make a proper profile switcher, cus this one aint it.