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You already know you can customize Firefox to the hilt, and the browser saves all the settings, bookmarks and extensions you’ve worked so hard to perfect. But your spouse’s bookmarks, passwords and preferences differ from yours, and you both use the family computer logged in as the same user. If you share a computer with family members or roommates, or if you simply browse for different reasons - like work, blogging, school research, or play - you may want to use different Firefox settings each time you sit down to surf. Luckily, the Firefox profile manager can manage multiple browsing personalities for a single user on the same desktop.

Most likely, right now when you launch Firefox it uses the default profile to load all your preferences, browser toolbars, extensions, bookmarks, history, cookies, configuration changes and tabs, and you use this same set of preferences every time you surf. Firefox’s profile manager, however, lets you create and choose to use other browsing personalities. Check out how one blogger uses a distraction-free work-only Firefox profile to stay focused. Geek to Live: Manage multiple Firefox profiles - Lifehacker