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i created a second profile yesterday. after starting the pc today, firefox opened and was empty/clean looking into the about:profile it said that i have two profiles but both were empty/clean looking into appdate structure > profiles i found 5 profile folders i tried deleting the profiles.ini, it created a new one but with the same new profiles i restarted the pc and had again 2 new empty profiles i tried creating a new profile with an existing file path and now i have 8 profile folders restarting again didnt create new profiles then i tried the "clean firefox" function but all i have after the restart are the 3 empty profiles again

how can i open the old profiles, of which the folders still seem to be there?

When I opened the browser, it prompted me about profiles. I clicked on it out of curiosity. However, when I tried to back out of it because I don't need any profiles, it created one anyway. Then whenever I would open the browser, it would prompt me to choose a profile. I don't need any profiles, and it was annoying that there was an extra step. There was the button to turn off the choose profile screen, but I guess I was steadfast in my annoyance, so I deleted the profiles to make it unable to show up. This, however, signed me out of Firefox, and when I logged back in, none of my bookmarks or history were there. I tried the sync option because I at least still had my history on the app, but it did not work. Frankly, I don't care, and I'll just make the bookmarks again. And maybe it should have made sense that deleting the profiles would delete everything with it. But I still think it's insanely stupid to not be able to back out of creating a profile. Took up my time and simultaneously gave me more work to do. I don't want any help or support just needed to voice my feelings.

Is it possible to sync all profiles among different devices? So they are tied to your mozilla account, then you get the option to choose which profiles to add on a different firefox browser. Mac and windows for example.

Also it would be nice to be able to change the "banner?". Basically the thing surrounding the profile image.

In Mozilla is it possible to use just 1 account to sync for multiple profiles just like the workspaces in Microsoft Edge ? or is anything similar is on development right now ?

If anyone knows about this, please do reply 🙏 Thank you!

I've been using profiles for a while after switching to firefox from chrome as my main browser. I was excited to see the profile manager finally come out so it would be easier to switch between them. However, only one of my profiles is showing up. The other one is not there, so I still have to use the old method to switch over to it. How can I get my other profile to show up in the profile manager?

Hello, on my local disk I have Firefox for Windows (10) installed for more than 2 years now, and the location: %Appdata%\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.deault-release\storage\to-be-removed has more than 7000 subfolders and files that sums up to 4GB of data, dating from mid 2023.

I naturally assume that a "to-be-removed" named folder should have it's content removed by some automated task or maintenance service, right? Is this normal, or is there some bug in application maintenance / updating process?

Thank you