Long ago, the Mozilla suite has been resumed under the name of SeaMonkey but the interior profiles remained the same. The release of Firefox 3 has made a lot of changes from the files of the profile.
Above all, a little reminder. SeaMonkey, Firefox and Thunderbird store personal information such as bookmarks, the home page, e-mail, address book, extensions, themes, etc.. in a profile (although different for each of these applications). The first time you run your software, a default profile is automatically created. Each profile is stored in its own folder. It is important to know where the profile and how it works, so why not keep this item under the elbow.
1. What is the profile?
As mentioned earlier, the profile is a folder to store personal settings of the user, including extensions and themes. So often there are problems that can occur.
The profile has two characteristics:
It is not located in the software installation;
It is not removed when you uninstall the software, whether Firefox, Thunderbird or Seamonkey. It is completely unnecessary to uninstall / reinstall Firefox when a problem profile.
2. Where is the profile?
Windows 2000 and Windows XP: C: \ Documents and Settings \ <window login/pseudonyme> \ Application Data \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \ <Name profile> \ o% AppData% \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \ <Name profile> \
Windows Vista : C: \ Users \ <window login/pseudonyme> \ AppData \ Roaming \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ <Name profile> \ or C: \ Users \ <window login/pseudonyme> \ AppData \ Roaming \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ <Name Profile> \
Unix / Linux: ~ / .mozilla / firefox / <Name profile> /
Mac OS X: ~ / Library / Mozilla / Firefox / Profiles / <Name profile> / or ~ / Library / Application Support / Mozilla / Firefox / Profiles / <Name profile> /
Note: By default, the profiles are appointed ********. default where ******** represents eight random letters and numbers.
Note:% AppData% is a shortcut to the path Application Data on Windows 2000, XP and Vista. To use, simply type% AppData% in the address bar of the Explorer and hit "Enter" (you can also click Start> Run (XP) or Start> Search (Vista) then type% AppData% and click "OK").
You then arrive in the folder, which is usually C: \ Documents and Settings \ <Name d'utilisateur Windows> \ Application Data \ (XP) or C: \ Users \ <window login/pseudonyme> \ AppData \.
Important: The% AppData% is hidden by default Windows and Linux [2], you must show hidden files and folders in Explorer to view it. On Windows, via the Tools menu> Options then the View tab. [3] Under Linux, depending on your file manager: if nautilus (the one provided by Gnome) or Konqueror (that provided by KDE), the Option is present in View> Show hidden files.
Note: Firefox can handle more users and more than one profile. Examples of roads above refer to the default profile is automatically created the first launch of the application. You can manage profiles using the profile manager.
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