shortcut for different profiles

[80]

i have switched from chrome since past 1 month and firefox is just better. the only thing i did not find easy is the option for having multiple profiles to be used at ease, could be better if there was one to easily access seperate profiles for work and home

[fortyfive]

Just taking this opportunity to reiterate that this has been a highly requested feature since long before the first post in this thread, and has been repeatedly written off as a "niche" and/or unhelpful feature, all while Chrome implemented easily accessible profiles over 10 years ago.

Firefox is seriously behind the curve here.

[raaaaph]

"As a user, i'd like to easily switch from between work and personal profile when i'm browsing."

It's soon 2025 and this feature still isn't supported at all.

And no, asking your users to copy-paste a command or navigate in about:profiles is NOT a solution, it's plain evidence for the lack of it.

Please make it happen, I have to switch back to Chrome because of this. 💔

[PyetroCosta]

In the recent update vs 133.0, it seems to me that the "Switch Profile" button was lost, even with the configuration: browser.profiles.enabled as true.

What happened? Did they regress instead of improving?

[OzDrDj]

This is the only thing holding me back from switching to Firefox. With Chrome, Upon opening there is a page asking you which account to use. With a family using the same computer, There are a few accounts on my machine, and being able to click on a certain account so simply is the only way things can work.
I am over Googles monopoly on everything and their lack of communication now. They are so big they just don't listen. I hope Mozilla listens and adds this feature that we all so desperately need.
(I know there is an add on, but it's just not seamless enough)

[PyetroCosta]

I managed to overcome the loss of the "Switch Profile" button by adding the "-p" argument to my Firefox shortcut path, which then brings up a window to choose the profile. But it's unintuitive, ugly and discouraging to use this way. It works, but it's bad.

[echo]

14 pages of support and requests and begging for the past 3 years.

Please firefox. please. We just need a comprehensive profile management support. We need to be able to attach workspaces to a specific profile. We need to be able to create custom desktop icons to open different profiles. we need to be able to open links in the last touched profile instead of the default browsers default profile. PLEASE. It's time.

[77martians]

I have really tried to use Firefox because Google Chrome does not work very well with graphics acceleration activated (lots of micro lag when using Fedora Linux). Besides scrolling is way more smooth with Firefox compared to Google Chrome. But the lack of a good and reasonable way to switch between profiles such as personal and work and Progressive Web Apps makes it basically impossible for me to make Firefox my default browser. Just very sad because I like Firefox otherwise very well.

[fire900s]

Let's hope this comes to fruition, baby. From all college students ❣️

[Xol]

2025 here. Please let there be a shortcut or some kind of easy profile switch. I would absolutely love to switch between work and private profiles effortlessly.

[Ere]

All we really need at minimum is a way to switch between profiles from any website in the toolbar. It doesn't need to be incredibly comprehensive.

More comprehensive features could come in later updates. Right now the inability to switch profiles from the toolbar or settings menu makes it incredibly inconvenient.

[ITtechCA]

@77martians @fire900s @Xol @Ere @80 @Hello there!

I know it sucks but don't sweet it, i definitely wont use any other browser than Mozilla so i will suggest you all to do as me, use a different version/profile ej.

Profile A: Firefox | Profile B: Nightly | Profile C: Developer | Profile 😧 Focus | Profile E: WaterFox | Profile F: LibreFox

[OzDrDj]

i spoke with Laura Chambers, CEO of Mozilla just before Christmas who has told me this regarding Profiles and Switching.

"We are just working through our 2025 roadmap as we speak, and I know the teams are testing out profiles in 2025. I hear you - it's an important feature.

We also have just hired a new head of Firefox, and I forwarded your message to him. He's excited to have the team engage more on forums and chats ... we are putting some extra resources and priorities on that in the new year also."

So here's hoping in the very near future we will have out profiles!

[GoodEnoughENI]

"working though our 2025 roadmap..."

How is Profiles Switching not at the top of the list of the Firefox road map?

[ITtechCA]

HMm!

Nice! @OzDrDj 

[Jon]

Exciting update...

The new profile management feature is now available to try out in the current version of Firefox Nightly — the feature is turned on by default. If you want to see a video demo and hear directly from the team working on profiles, check out this recent post on Connect:

Try out Firefox Profiles in Nightly 

Check it out and let us know what you think!