locked startup profile with password
can any body please help me to find an add-on that lock my profile i managed to create a separated profiles on my PC and every one of them have its own add-on and email and bookmark one of them are public and the other is private for me the problem is i cant make my profile private even Firefox use master password doesn't do any thing you can easily close the password message when it is popup and continue to invade the profile privacy and see the history and bookmarks and add-ons and every thing on my profile and its nagging all the time when it is suppose to be at startup only as far as i know there are 2 add-ons that maybe do the job but they are not working any more master_password-1.29.2-fx and startupmaster-1.6.5-fx+tb
i need any thing to lock my profile like lockpw free chrome extension this is a great extension on chrome web store and it is does the job perfectly i came to Firefox from chrome i didn't even uninstall my chrome because i cant move my work on chrome until i secure a decent profile on Firefox my Firefox is 70 thank you
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any body read this please help me with solution thank you
It is not possible to lock a Firefox profile with a password. You can use a password on your own Windows user account and use a Windows guest account for other users.
will there was 2 add-on before that have done the job can you tell me if there is any way to make them work again
is Firefox company consider to make users lock there profiles in future versions and what version it will be i need aversion number please
or at least help us through any add-on that we can install from the store
That was previously done via an extension and wasn't really safe because you would only have to hold down the Shift key when starting Firefox or otherwise start Firefox in Safe mode to bypass this password protection.
is Firefox company consider to make users lock there profiles in future versions and what version it will be i need aversion number please thank you
As long as you have at least read access to the profile folder then you can always copy any file to another profile even if you would be able to prevent Firefox from using this profile. Only if you prevent access to your private profile at the OS level like a user account password or encrypted partition.
Otherwise you can consider to install the portable Firefox version on a removable USB jump drive. The portable version comes with its own profile folder and doesn't interfere with currently installed Firefox versions.