Profiles
Did you know that all the settings you make in Firefox, like your home page, what toolbars you use, saved passwords and bookmarks are all stored in a special profile folder? It's true. Your profile folder is kept in a separate place from the Firefox program so that if something ever goes wrong with Firefox your information will still be there. It also means you can uninstall Firefox without losing your settings and you don't have to reinstall Firefox to clear your information or troubleshoot a problem.
This information is here for reference. You don't have to follow these steps unless you were directed to do so from another article.
How do I find my profile?
- At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button, go over to the menu (on Windows XP, click on the menu) and select . The Troubleshooting Information tab will open.
- Under the Application Basics section, click on Open Containing Folder. A window with your profile files will open.
Finding your profile without opening Firefox
Windows Vista and 7
- Click the Windows Start button and type %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ in the Search box at the bottom of the Start menu, without pressing Enter. A list of profiles will appear at the top of the Start menu.
- Click on the profile with “default” in the name to open it in a window.
Windows 2000 and XP
- Click the Windows Start button, and select .
- Type in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ then click OK.
- A window will open containing profile folders.
- Double-click the folder with “default” in the name to open it.
Note: Only important information useful for recovering is described.
- Bookmarks and Browsing History: The places.sqlite file contains all your Firefox bookmarks and the list of all the websites you’ve visited. For more information, see How do I use bookmarks?.
- Passwords: Your passwords are stored in the key3.db and signons.sqlite files. For more information, see How do I make Firefox remember my usernames and passwords?.
- Site-specific preferences: The permissions.sqlite and content-prefs.sqlite files store many of your Firefox permissions (e.g which sites are allowed to display popups) or zoom levels that are set on a site-by-site basis. For more information, see How do I manage website permissions? and How do I use Zoom?.
- Search engines: The search.sqlite file and searchplugins folder store the search engines that are available in the Firefox Search bar.
- Personal dictionary: The persdict.dat file stores any custom words you have added to Firefox's dictionary. For more information, see Using the spell checker.
- Autocomplete history: The formhistory.sqlite file remembers what you have searched for in the Firefox search bar and what information you’ve entered into forms on websites. For more information, see Form autocomplete.
- Download history: The downloads.sqlite file remembers what you have downloaded. For more information, see Downloads window.
- Cookies: A cookie is a bit of information stored on your computer by a website you’ve visited. Usually this is something like your site preferences or login status. Cookies are all stored in the cookies.sqlite file.
- DOM storage: DOM Storage is designed to provide a larger, securer, and easier-to-use alternative to storing information in cookies. Information is stored in the webappsstore.sqlite file for websites and in the chromeappsstore.sqlite for about:* pages.
- Security certificate settings: The cert8.db file stores all your security certificate settings and any SSL certificates you have imported into Firefox.
- Security device settings: The secmod.db file is the security module database.
- Download actions: The mimeTypes.rdf file stores your preferences that tell Firefox what to do when it comes across a particular type of file. For example, these are the settings that tell Firefox to open a PDF file with Acrobat Reader when you click on it. For more information, see Managing file types.
- Plugin MIME type: The pluginreg.dat file stores MIME types related to your installed plugins. For more information, see Using plugins with Firefox.
- Stored session: The sessionstore.js file stores the currently open tabs and windows. For more information, see Session Restore.
- Toolbar customization: The localstore.rdf file stores toolbar and window size/position settings. For more information, see How do I customize the toolbars?.
- User styles: If they exists, the \chrome\userChrome.css and \chrome\userContent.css files store user-defined changes to either how Firefox looks, or how certain websites or HTML elements look or act.
Working with profiles
- Managing profiles explains how to do things like create a new profile and delete an old one.
- Backing up your information explains how to back up and restore a profile. It also explains how to move your profile information to a different location on your hard drive or to another computer.
- Recovering important data from an old profile describes what information is stored in each of the files in your profile and explains how to copy them to a new profile.
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