{"id":448431,"date":"2010-03-19T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T21:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2010-03-19T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T21:21:56","slug":"firefox-profiles-for-increased-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/448431","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Profiles for Increased Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this is a personal finance site, but occasionally I like to write about my first love&#8230; technology.  One of my favorite pieces of technology is the Firefox web browser.  I like to root for the underdog company for more competition leading to more choice for consumers.  For that reason, I&#8217;ve never been a fan of Internet Explorer, even when it looked like Netscape was dead.  Thus I have been using Firefox&#8217;s main code back when it was Mozilla 0.7 (who remembers Phoenix and Firebird? Anyone?).  <\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, that came very close to changing.  Firefox had started to slow on my computer.  On a lark, I loaded up Google Chrome and found that it was really fast.  So it seems like a no-brainer to switch, right?  Well not so fast.  I have a lot of extensions for Firefox and I couldn&#8217;t work the same way with Chrome.  Right as I was about to bite the bullet and switch to Chrome, I had an idea.  What if Firefox is a little like Windows&#8230; the more you use it, the more it slows down with extra junk sticking around pulling resources?  If Firefox is like that, perhaps I could clean it.  I thought about deleting all history, cookies, many plugins, etc., but then I had a better idea.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered that back in the old days Firefox had something called &#8220;profiles&#8221;.  Everyone using Firefox had a profile, but they are often not aware of it. These are kind of like users in Windows.  However, Windows shares a single registry and most of the &#8220;extra junk&#8221; goes there.  What was slowing me down was the information in my Firefox profile.  Solution: Create a new, clean profile and use that.  The result was a fast new Firefox again.  The article that I used to help me get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/firefox-for-seos-working-with-several-firefox-profiles\/7319\/\">started with profiles<\/a> mentioned that it might be best to have different profiles for different tasks.  That&#8217;s exactly what I decided to do.  I created one for general browsing.  I then created one for blogging, web development, work, and one that I just label as &#8220;fast&#8221;.  The blogging one has bookmarks, saved passwords, and extensions that help me blog more efficiently.  The web development one has a number of web development extensions.<\/p>\n<p>There are three main advantages to Firefox Profiles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Faster Performance<\/b> &#8211; My &#8220;extra junk&#8221; is now divided amongst 6 segmented profiles.  The general browsing one still gets the most junk, but it&#8217;s not nearly as bad.<\/li>\n<li><b>Increased Focus<\/b> &#8211; Because my work profile is all work-related, I&#8217;m not tempted by <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/boston\/new-england-patriots\">Evil Mike Reiss and his continuous coverage of the New England Patriots<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Multiple Gmails at the Same Time<\/b> &#8211; One of my biggest issues with web applications of all kinds is that it&#8217;s hard be logged into multiple personas at the same time.  Want to Tweet about your personal and business life in two different accounts?  You&#8217;ll be logging in and out of Twitter quite a bit.  Have a couple of Gmail accounts that you want to keep separate?  Same thing.  With different profiles, there is a whole new instance of the browser.  I can be logged into a Gmail account in my work profile and an entirely different Gmail account in my blogging profile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The day after setting up my profiles, Lifehacker published this <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5481213\/master-multiple-firefox-profiles-for-more-productive-browsing\">very helpful guide<\/a> on Firefox profiles. My timing is, as always, very poor.  The big take-away in this guide is to get the Profile Switcher plugin.  It&#8217;s a must-have for getting the most out of Firefox profiles.  <\/p>\n<p>(Note: Yes, I&#8217;m realize that I&#8217;m ripping of Lifehacker&#8217;s title a bit, but I had already started this article before Lifehacker published that guide.  I&#8217;m sticking with what I had.)<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/how-i-increased-my-income-62-in-14-months\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How I increased my income 62% in 14 months&#8230;'>How I increased my income 62% in 14 months&#8230;<\/a> <small>&#8230; and why you might not be able to do&#8230;<\/small><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/blogging-as-a-stream-of-income\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Blogging as a Stream of Income'>Blogging as a Stream of Income<\/a> <small>I had been writing about my goal of getting my&#8230;<\/small><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/lazily-laying-out-the-link-love\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Lazily Laying out the Link Love'>Lazily Laying out the Link Love<\/a> <small>1) Have you linked to me? 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