Tips To Keep Hold Of A Firefox Profile

The Mozilla Firefox web browser is regarded as a third generation browser packed up with options to customize its services.  The changes or modifications brought into the Mozilla Firefox web browser will be stored in the computer as a file or as it is better known, a profile. If you were to change your system or if you have to reinstall the Mozilla Firefox browser due to various reasons, running this file will bring back the customized settings as set by you on a previous occasion.
Whenever a Mozilla Firefox web browser is installed on a machine, a profile will be created to store the details of the settings applied which can later be shared with various other users with the help of LAN or a USB device. When reinstalled, this browser will lose the configuration parameters and will possibly result in crashing of the web browser if it has to run in tandem with other programs that requires settings customized according specifically for it. It’s better to keep save the Firefox profile to maintain these indispensable parameters of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Just tag along the following instructions shaped out by the Mozilla Firefox support team to know more about this.

Instructions
• Exit the Mozilla Firefox web browser that’s currently running on your computer.
• Trigger the "Start" tab to bring on the "My Computer" tab to open up the Windows Explorer and then type in "C:%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" into the address bar before engaging the "Enter" key on your keyboard.
• Pick out the destination path of the file saved on your computer craft out a replica of that file and move it to an external drive or a USB device so that it will be secured.
• Now just carry out a clean formatting and reinstallation of the Windows as well as other software including the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
• Tag along the "Start" tab to bring on the "My Computer" to bring on the Windows Explorer and type in "C:%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" into the address bar before hitting on the "Enter" key on your keyboard.
• Pick out the destination path where you saved the Firefox profile on your system from "C:%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles".
• Running that particular file will bring back the configuration parameters back to your Mozilla Firefox system.
Contact the Mozilla Firefox support team if you are encounter any problem while executing these instructions.