# Firefox profiles management app or add-on

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-profiles-management-app-or-add-on/827137>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 3, 2019, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-profiles-management-app-or-add-on/827137 "2019-01-03T10:12:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grim\_Render](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Grim\_Render](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Render)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-profiles-management-app-or-add-on/827137/1 "2019-01-03T10:12:22Z")

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So I’ve become more and more annoyed with stupid targeted adds and tracking. I am getting old and want that stuff off my digital lawn.

I set up different profiles on Firefox for social media, google etc. But I can see that having to use firefox.exe -P all the time could also get old. I looked for an app for Firefox to make managing these more easy, but for some reason I haven’t found any.

Does anyone know of one?

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**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-profiles-management-app-or-add-on/827137/2 "2019-01-03T10:49:22Z")

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Firefox’s removal of any mechanism to switch user profiles while it is running is just another symptom of its drive towards user-hostile, Fisher-Price interface design. You might want to consider changing browsers to [SeaMonkey](http://seamonkey-project.org/), which shares the same browser core as Firefox but uses a full-featured interface that is much closer to that of the Mozilla Application Suite (formerly Netscape Communicator) from which both browsers are descended. In SeaMonkey there is a handy “Switch Profile…” command in the “Tools” pull-down menu.

If you’re unable or unwilling to switch browsers, you might be able to live with creating desktop shortcuts that automatically invoke firefox.exe -P with your various profiles. If you also use the --new-instance option then you should even be able to run multiple profiles simultaneously. (I’m not sure if that option is present on Windows, which I presume you’re running, but it’s worth a try.)