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I have a bunch of questions about Firefox profiles (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I run Windows 10 and I have never done anything with Profiles at all. I am completely new.

When I go to about:profiles I see three Enteries,

Profile: default-release
Profile: default
Profile: dev-edition-default

Of which default-release seems to be default. Indicated by Default Profile: yes

First off, why are there 3 profiles if I never created one?

In Each profile, there is Root Directory and Local Directory which point to the same directory in all 3 cases. What are the differences?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

root directory

Where your settings, bookmarks, passwords, etc are stored.

local directory

Where your cookies, website local storage and other temporary non-profile data is stored.