Firefox Profilemaker
Welcome to the Firefox Profilemaker!
This tool will help you to create a Firefox profile with the defaults you like.
You select which features you want to enable and disable and in the end
you get a download link for a zip-file with your profile template.
You can for example disable some functions, which send data to Mozilla and Google,
or disable several annoying Firefox functions like Mozilla Hello or the Pocket integration.
Each Setting has a short explanation and for the non obvious settings links to resources
describing the feature and the possible problems with it.
Download
You did not finish all questions. You still can download the profile, but there are more options available.
There are four types of downloads:
- profile.zip:
- Unzip the file into a fresh profile folder to create a profile with the chosen defaults.
- enterprise_policy.zip:
- Unzip this in the Firefox installation folder, to reset the defaults every time Firefox starts.
- prefs.js:
- Preferences file, that can be placed in the Firefox profile folder or appended to existing preferences.
- addons.zip:
- An archive that only contains the chosen addons.
When you download only the addons.zip, you need to copy the
user_pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes", 14); line into your prefs.js, otherwise firefox won't install the addons.
Installing
- Optional: add a new profile to keep the old one
- Run
firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager
- Create a new profile
- Type
about:support into the url bar.
- Press the open profile folder button.
- Quit Firefox.
- Delete everything from the new profile (you will lose all existing data from the profile).
- Unzip the
profile.zip archive into the folder.
- If Existent: Unzip the
enterprise_policy.zip archive to Firefox installation directory.
- Start Firefox again. If you made a new profile, you can use it with
firefox -no-remote -P profilename.
- Open the addon manager and update the extensions.
Preview
policies.json:
{
"policies": {}
}