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Firefox Profile Location: Everything You Need to Know
Accessing Firefox profile requires just a few clicks
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Updated onOctober 22, 2024
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If you’re using Firefox, you have your user profile created, and in today’s guide, we’re going to show you everything you need to know about Firefox profile location.
What is Firefox profile location and how to move it?
Where is my Firefox profile located?
To find the location of your Firefox profile, do the following:
By default, the location of your profile is usually in the following directories.
For profile settings, data, and bookmarks:C:\Users\WindowsReport\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
For profile cache files:C:\Users\WindowsReport\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
How do I move my Firefox profile to a new computer?
How do I import a profile in Firefox?
Firefox doesn’t have the option to import the profile, and the only way to transfer all your data is to follow the steps from the section above and manually copy the profile folders.
We hope that this guide has answered all your questions regarding the Firefox profile location on your PC. Some users prefer using the sync feature for data transfer, but many also reported thatFirefox Sync isn’t workingfor them.
Keep in mind that your profiles can get corrupted, and we wrote aboutProfile cannot be loaded errorin Firefox in one of our older guides, so don’t miss it.
To learn more about Firefox, we have a guide on how tochange user agent in Firefox, so you might want to check it out. We also have a guide on how totransfer Firefox profile to a new computer, so be sure to visit it.
To learn more about Firefox, don’t miss our new guide onFirefox incognito shortcutto learn how to protect your privacy. To learn more about private browsing, head to our latest article and learn how toset Firefox Private Browsing to a blank page.
If you’re a web app developer, why notdownload Firefox Developer Editionand give it a try?
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Milan Stanojevic
Windows Toubleshooting Expert
Milan has been enthusiastic about technology ever since his childhood days, and this led him to take interest in all PC-related technologies. He’s a PC enthusiast and he spends most of his time learning about computers and technology.
Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.
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Milan Stanojevic
Windows Toubleshooting Expert
Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s specialized in Windows errors & software issues.
