Questions tagged [firefox-profile]
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Firefox won't launch with imported profile
I've had this problem before, not sure what fixed it last time, but I'm having it again. I have a root profile folder from my Firefox Nightly backed up. So on a new machine I install Nightly, create ...
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Possible to centrally deploy website credentials in Firefox?
We would like to deploy the credentials (user, password) of a couple of websites to all Firefox installations in our network. Is there a way to populate the password manager via script, autoconfig, ...
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Firefox Portable (multi instance) won't load its profile if other Firefox already open
I have a strange problem. I have three instances of Firefox Portable (on a Windows 11 system). I did set the option AllowMultipleInstances=true in the FirefoxPortable.ini file and for the first few ...
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Recover saved passwords from 2018 version of Firefox
I have an old Firefox profile copied from an old PC, which was last in use in 2018. As far as I can tell, Firefox was at version 64 at the time.
Various resources talk about creating a new Firefox ...
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How to use Firefox Containers with Python (instead of Firefox Profiles)
I have a python script for an automation tool using selenium that requires using multiple accounts (tens & hundreds) using Firefox. Thing is, I can't login-logout the accounts, so to use multiple ...
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Bitwarden automatically opening new tab in Geckodriver Firefox window
I'm trying to write automated tests that work on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox using Selenium and the relevant drivers. However, when I run the tests on Firefox, the new browser window opens up the ...
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FF: error "You've launched an older version of firefox" - And changes that really impact on profile format
When opening my profile with a different FF browser, I've received the error "You've launched an older version of firefox" and it offer me 2 option "Exit" and " Create new ...
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Removing "other bookmarks" from the Firefox bookmarks manager?
I don't know what this folder is for, and I don't know why Firefox forced this folder for everyone. But for me It is always empty because I never use it. I want to go a step further and permanently ...
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Clearing Firefox Update History
Is there a way to clear the Firefox update history seen in about:preferences > General > Firefox Updates > Show Update History?
Even after looking through my whole profile folder and using ...
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Start selenium node with an specific profile (Firefox)
When I start a standalone selenium test, I can specify the profile path to be used, something like FirefoxProfile(File("/home/selenium/firefox/1234.MyProfile")). However when I use a grid, I ...
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Firefox default list of tabs removed?
Up until recently I was able to set a list of tabs that would open when I open a new Firefox window, but the option to do so seems to have gone away in the last couple of weeks. Was the setting ...
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How to write username and password to logins.json, in Firefox?
I have an application that launches a specific website in a specific Firefox profile in order to facilitate some actions.
The operator must then login on this website. The application provides the ...
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Disable Firefox's tab unloading feature
Starting in v93, Firefox introduced a tab unload feature.
In a previous question I asked whether it's possible to disable this feature for specific tabs. (That does not seem possible.)
After using it ...
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Prevent Firefox from unloading specific tabs
Starting in v93, Firefox introduced a tab unload feature.
I generally like it, but it always unloads those tabs that are most important to me.
Is there some way - either setting or addon - to "...
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Allow firefox extension to run in private windows via policy engine
I'd like to allow certain extensions to run in private windows via firefox's policy engine. I found out that one can set this in extension-preferences.json:
{
"[email protected]": {
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