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Protect your Firefox Profile

April 24th, 2006 Leave a comment Go to comments

A Firefox profile stores all personal information such as bookmarks and passwords in it. Everyone who is starting up Firefox with that profile is able to use your saved passwords and cookies as well which is a security risk if you ask me. One way to overcome this would be to protect the Firefox profile folder by moving it to a location that is not accessible to anyone except you.

I did this by moving the profile to my encrypted hard drive. The hard drive is encrypted using True Crypt and the profile can only be accessed if I provide the security key to decrypt the hard drive. Other means are theoretically possible as well, use a portable device that has to be plugged in before you can use the profile.

Moving a profile to another location is not difficulty at all. Close all instances of Firefox and locate your profile folder. This is usually in Document and Settings under Application Date, Mozilla, Firefox, Profiles of the user who is logged into windows currently.

Move the complete folder to a different location. Open up profiles.ini afterwards (located in Firefox in Document and Settings). Change the path= parameter to the new location of your profile and change the parameter IsRelative=1 to 0.

Restart Firefox to see if the changes have been made. If all your bookmarks for instance load fine the changes have been successful. If that is not the case double-check the path parameter in profiles.ini.

Author: Martin Brinkmann
Protect your Firefox Profile

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  1. March 24th, 2009 at 14:38 | #1

    swietny, naprawde swietny program na ktory nie ukrywam dlugo czekalem albo go szukalem,
    bardzo solidnie robi porzadek w muzyce jaka nagromadzilem przez lata, dosyc czesto sie zawiesza, ale moze to dlatego ze uzytkowalem wersje demo, ale i tak wiele mi pomogl. Chcialbym miec wersje Gold ale nie wiem czy jako mieszkaniec Polski mam szanse go kupic, bo po kilku probach dokonywania oplaty za pomoca mojej karty transakcja zostala odrzucana.
    Jako uzytkownik Maca jest mi przykro, ze tak wiele rzeczy jeszcze jest do zrobienia, aby milo ze wszystkich ulatwiajacych zycie programow korzystac
    Jesli jest to mozliwe, prosze o podania mi informacji albo linku jak najlepiej wykorzystywac iTunes i Maca do odtwarzania muzyki,
    serdecznie pozdrawiam,
    Rafal

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