# Firefox Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/345134>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 18, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/345134 "2006-02-18T23:25:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jeffr062](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jeffr062](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffr062)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/345134/1 "2006-02-18T23:25:19Z")

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How do you get to the menu where you register your user name for Firefox?

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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/345134/2 "2006-02-18T23:37:53Z")

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In order to create a new profile, you use the Profile Manager. To start the Profile Manager in Windows, follow these steps:

1. Close Firefox completely (select File \> Exit from the main menu of Firefox).
2. Select Start \> Run… from the Windows Start menu.
3. Enter firefox.exe -profilemanager and press OK.

From [here](http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new).

CMC

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**Author:** ![Jeffr062](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jeffr062](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffr062)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-question/345134/3 "2006-02-19T00:08:04Z")

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This worked great, thanks!

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                                                        Jeffro
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