# Firefox; change profile?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [April 4, 2006, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261 "2006-04-04T08:51:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Coldaccord](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Coldaccord)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/1 "2006-04-04T08:51:23Z")
OK so yesterday when I go to open firefox a thing pops up saying that profile is already in use, and i cant get on, so i just make another one
how do i switch back to the old one/ its got all my shit on there
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### Author:  [@duck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/duck)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 8:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/2 "2006-04-04T08:58:55Z")
i just looked up some firefox profile stuff… about 10 minutes ago… but not related to this.
i modified prefs.js in the cache folder. maybe that has some setting that you are looking for?
/firefox\_noob
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/3 "2006-04-04T09:22:45Z")
control alt delete…kill the process in task manager…double click firefox to initiate new instance of program.
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### Author:  [@articzap](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/articzap)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/4 "2006-04-04T09:29:09Z")
happens everyknow and then, jsut do as marcus said
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### Author:  [@The\_Russian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/The_Russian)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/5 "2006-04-04T10:34:56Z")
firefox can get stuipid , ijust kill it and restart it
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### Author:  [@Coldaccord](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Coldaccord)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/6 "2006-04-04T19:19:54Z")
thats what i could have done before
but now its on a different profile.
so how do i change it back to the original?
all my bookmarks and all that were on there
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### Author:  [@98SS10](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/98SS10)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/7 "2006-04-04T19:51:07Z")
happens to me alot, once yer on the other profile yer screwed.start over. I havent been able to figure that out either. If it happens again restart.
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### Author:  [@JDMR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMR2)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/8 "2006-04-04T19:52:30Z")
restart the program through task manager, usually does the trick
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### Author:  [@Mrs\_Karus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mrs_Karus)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/9 "2006-04-04T19:52:36Z")
i just got that today, now ALL my bookmarks are gone gone gone ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/10 "2006-04-04T19:53:01Z")
> [@Marcus](#):
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> control alt delete…kill the process in task manager…double click firefox to initiate new instance of program.
as I said…above
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### Author:  [@Xrunner](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Xrunner)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/11 "2006-04-05T05:53:07Z")
same thing happened to me
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### Author:  [@MidgeX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MidgeX)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/12 "2006-04-05T07:02:46Z")
same, anybody?
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### Author:  [@idesicle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/idesicle)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/13 "2006-04-05T07:14:33Z")
Only my second post, but hopefully a helpful one.
Close the firefox explorer as stated in previous posts, then open up your windows start menu and choose the run command. the type in firefox.exe -P This should get you to the profile manager page. then select your previous profile. hopefully this helps.
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### Author:  [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/14 "2006-04-05T07:16:32Z")
yeah what you people were all saying before idesicle were only right up to a point lol.
If you get the message about changing profiles and you do it, the old one is ‘lost’ and ctrl-alt-del wont get it back.
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### Author:  [@idesicle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/idesicle)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/15 "2006-04-05T07:17:26Z")
reference [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile\_Manager](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager) for help with other problems with profiles.
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### Author:  [@Coldaccord](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Coldaccord)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/16 "2006-04-05T08:59:42Z")
> [@idesicle](#):
>
> Only my second post, but hopefully a helpful one.
> Close the firefox explorer as stated in previous posts, then open up your windows start menu and choose the run command. the type in firefox.exe -P This should get you to the profile manager page. then select your previous profile. hopefully this helps.
YESSSSSSSS!
thank you!
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firefox-change-profile/10261/17 "2006-04-05T09:38:37Z")
heh… wierd… been running FF for years now and have never seen this before