New profiles feature ignores existing profiles functionality

jcoles — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:25:28 GMT

Profiles are not actually a new feature in Firefox, but they were not as easily accessible before v150.0. The only way to see profiles back then was to start from the command line: firefox -P. Evidently, the developers who created and promoted the "new" profiles feature were unaware of the existing profiles functionality. The result is that the new profiles feature knows nothing about pre-existing profiles except for the default one and the old profiles functionality knows nothing about profiles created with the new profiles feature. Can this confusing redundancy be resolved?

Re: New profiles feature ignores existing profiles functionality

wsm — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:43:39 GMT

> Evidently, the developers who created and promoted the "new" profiles feature were unaware of the existing profiles functionality

Quite improbable. Anyway, please use https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/firefox for support issues. From there, bugs can be reported if it is confirmed to be a flaw.

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