
Firefox Profiles
I have a bunch of profiles set up via "about:profiles". Some of these are associated with different Mozilla accounts, some are not. Today, I wanted to rearrange those profiles to put some older profiles that I do not use as often lower on the page than more recent profiles. I thought I remembered there being an overview text file that included a number for each profile, the folder that profile's information was stored in, etc. When I went looking for that file, I could not find it, so I went looking for help articles and discovered that there is a new profile management tool.
When I tried using the new profile manager via "about:profilemanager", none of my current profiles are visible, so I cannot use that tool to reorder my profiles.
I would be grateful if you could point me to an article explaining how to reorder the profiles in "about:profiles". If that is not possible, I would appreciate a help article explaining the rationale for making these two uses of the word "profile" distinct, the ways in which these profiles are different from each other, and how to transfer settings from the older version to the newer version. I have everything set up just the way I like it within my current profiles and really do not want to have to recreate them from scratch...
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The file you're looking for is C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini.
See More about the new profile manager at https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/try-out-firefox-profiles-in-nightly/m-p/84223/highlight/true#M32169.
To move a profile to the new profile manager:
- create a Firefox profile with the new profile manager (https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-management), then close its window
- use the old profile manager (https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles) to open the root directory of one of your old profiles. Go up one level in File Explorer to find the folder of your new profile. It will have a name that ends with Profile 1, like RqlLK6hA.Profile 1
- delete all files in that directory
- copy the contents from an old profile into that directory
- use the new profile manager to launch it
- if your extensions don't work properly, try starting Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode and then restarting it again