Creating profiles in Thunderbird and Mozilla through Profile Manager

Windows

To see how to create a new profile for Firefox see Creating a new Firefox profile on Windows. Instructions for other Mozilla programs follow.

Close the application and make sure that it is not running in the background.

Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite or SeaMonkey: Use the "Profile Manager" shortcut located in the Start -> Programs Menu (if available) or use the below instructions, substituting thunderbird.exe mozilla.exe or seamonkey.exe in place of firefox.exe.

Firefox: Open the Windows "Start" menu, select "Run" (on Windows Vista, use "Start Search" or enable the Run box, as described here) then type and enter one of the following:

• firefox.exe -profilemanager
• firefox.exe -P

For a zip install or if the above instructions do not work, include the full path to the executable surrounded by quotation marks in the "Run" (or Vista "Start Search") box, as in this Firefox example:

• "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -profilemanager

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Linux

Close the application completely and make sure that it is not running in the background. Open the terminal and execute cd (program directory) then execute:

• (Firefox) ./firefox -profilemanager
• (Mozilla Suite) ./mozilla -profilemanager
• (SeaMonkey) ./seamonkey -profilemanager
• (Thunderbird) ./thunderbird -profilemanager

Alternately, in a terminal type path/to/application -profilemanager

Sources:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile