Different accounts for Firefox?

[Astraeus]

Hi,

I run XP on a single administrator account which works fine except for one thing - Firefox. Several people use this computer (my computer, so only ever periodically) and it has become a bundle of bookmarks, toolbar features etc. which I don't use. Is it possible to have an alternative account on Firefox so that when someone else uses it, their stuff isn't saved onto mine?

 

[GaryB]

You can use the Profile Manager in Firefox to create multiple profiles and then start Firefox with alternative profiles from the command line. See This Mozilla Knowledgebase Article for details.

 

[Pincho Paxton]

Hi,

I run XP on a single administrator account which works fine except for one thing - Firefox. Several people use this computer (my computer, so only ever periodically) and it has become a bundle of bookmarks, toolbar features etc. which I don't use. Is it possible to have an alternative account on Firefox so that when someone else uses it, their stuff isn't saved onto mine?

That's one of the reasons that you have 2 user profiles on the computer in the first place.

 

[Codehead]

Mrs Codehead, the kids and I all have separate user accounts on our main XP machine.

This means that they can set stupid colour schemes and desktop wallpapers, and bookmark whatever they like without cluttering up my clean desktop.

If you enable fast user switching, it's as simple as pressing Windows + 'L' to jump back to the user select screen (the current user is left logged on) and pick which account you want to use.

It doesn't take a monster of a machine to handle 3 simultaneously logged on accounts with quick and easy switching between them. Mine is an old 2Ghz Athlon with 1Gb RAM.

I have a separate admin account for setup/maintenance and everyone else (myself included) runs as a basic user.

One gotcha with this is AntiVirus/Firewall, some older stuff cannot cope with being loaded three times. The better ones restrict themselves to a single instance.

HTH