Manage multiple Firefox profiles with CookieSwap

by Brad Linder Jan 14th 2008

If more than one person uses your home computer, odds are you're constantly logging in and out of your Gmail, Flickr, YouTube, and other online accounts. Sure, you could set up separate profiles for each person who uses your operating system, but who wants to take the time to switch user logins just to check their email?

That's where CookieSwap comes in. This lightweight Firefox extension lets you create several distinct cookie profiles in Firefox. Just right-click on the profile button and choose the profile you want to use for each session. Any cookies you download during your browsing session will be saved to your current profile. So for example, if you sign into Gmail and check the box for Firefox to remember your login information, it will be saved to the current profile. You can then switch to a different profile if you want to login as a different user.

CookieSwap works reasonably well, but it's a bit rough around the edges when it comes to tweaking or adding profiles. If you click the "manage profiles" button all you'll get is the directory where your profiles reside. You'll have to navigate to that directory to manually rename your profiles or to add extra profiles if you need more than three.

[via DailyApps]

Tags: Add-on, cookies, CookieSwap, Firefox, profiles

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mahdi said 9:01AM on 1-26-2008

thank you "Neil T."

Firefox is king.

1.Close Firefox completely (select File > Exit from themain menu of Firefox).

2.Select Start > Run... from the Windows Start menu (use the search box on Vista).

3.Enter "firefox.exe -ProfileManager" and press OK.

Then Profile Manager of firefox will be run, and From the Profile Manager you are also able to remove and rename profiles. Be very careful when deleting profiles.

For more help go to ==> http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

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Neil T. said 8:26AM on 6-10-2008

Firefox actually has built-in support for complete profiles that affect cookies, saved passwords, bookmarks, preferences and add-ons - it's ideal for a computer that has one login account but multiple users. See http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile .

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