All of the changes you make in Firefox, like your home page, what toolbars you use, extensions you have installed, saved passwords and your bookmarks, are all stored in a special folder, called a profile... Your profile folder is stored in a separate place from the Firefox program so that, if something ever goes wrong with Firefox, your information will still be there. It also means you can uninstall Firefox without losing your settings and you don "t have to reinstall Firefox to clear your information or troubleshoot a problem.

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How do I find my profile?

Click the menu button, click Help and select Troubleshooting Information. From the Help menu, choose Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open.

• Under the Application Basics section, click on Open Folder Show in Finder Open Directory. A window will open that contains your profile folder.Your profile folder will open.

Finding your profile without opening Firefox

Firefox your stores profile folder in this location on your computer, by default:
C: \ Users \ \ AppData \ Roaming \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \
Windows hides the AppData folder by default but you can find your profile folder as follows:

1. From the Start Screen, click the Desktop tile. The Desktop view will open.
2. From the Desktop, hover in the lower right-hand corner to access the Charms.
3. Select the Search charm. The Search sidebar will open.
4. In the search box, type in:
   % APPDATA% \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \
   without pressing Enter. A list of profile folders will appear.
5. Click on the profile folder you wish to open (it will open in a window). If you only have one profile, its folder would have "default" in the name.

1. Click the Finder icon in the dock. On the menu bar, click the Go menu, hold down the option or alt key and select Library. A window will open containing your Library folder.
2. Open the Application Support folder, then open the Firefox folder, and then the Profiles folder.
3. Your profile folder is within this folder. If you only have one profile, its folder would have "default" in the name.

1. (Ubuntu) Click the Places menu on the top right of the screen and select Home Folder. A File Browser window will appear.
2. Click the View menu and select Show Hidden Files if it isn "t already checked.
3. Double click the folder marked .mozilla.
4. Double click the folder marked firefox. Your profile folder is within this folder. If you only have one profile, its folder would have "default" in the name.

What information is stored in my profile?

Note: This is not a complete list. Only important information is described.

• Bookmarks, Downloads and Browsing History: The places.sqlite file contains all your Firefox bookmarks and lists of all the files you "ve downloaded and websites you've visited. The bookmarkbackups folder stores bookmark backup files, which can be used to restore your bookmarks. The favicons.sqlite file contains all of the favicons for your Firefox bookmarks. For more information, see Bookmarks in Firefox and Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer.
• Passwords: Your passwords are stored in the key4.db and logins.json files. For more information, see Password Manager - Remember, delete, change and import saved passwords in Firefox.
• Site-specific preferences: The permissions.sqlite and content-prefs.sqlite files store many of your Firefox permissions (for instance, which sites are allowed to display popups) or zoom levels that are set on a site-by-site basis (see Font size and zoom - increase the size of web pages).
• Search engines: The search.json.mozlz4 file stores user-installed search engines. For more information, see Add or remove a search engine in Firefox.
• Personal dictionary: The persdict.dat file stores any custom words you have added to Firefox "s dictionary. For more information, see How do I use the Firefox spell checker?.
• Autocomplete history: The formhistory.sqlite file remembers what you have searched for in the Firefox search bar and what information you’ve entered into forms on websites. For more information, see Control whether Firefox automatically fills in forms.
• Cookies: A cookie is a bit of information stored on your computer by a website you’ve visited. Usually this is something like your site preferences or login status. Cookies are all stored in the cookies.sqlite file.
• DOM storage: DOM Storage is designed to provide a larger, more secure, and easier-to-use alternative to storing information in cookies. Information is stored in the webappsstore.sqlite file for websites and in the chromeappsstore.sqlite for about: * pages.
• Extensions: The extensions folder, if it exists, stores files for any extensions you have installed. To learn more about Firefox extensions and other add-ons, see Find and install add-ons to add features to Firefox.
• Security certificate settings: The cert9.db file stores all your security certificate settings and any SSL certificates you have imported into Firefox.
• Security device settings: The pkcs11.txt file stores security module configuration.
• Download actions: The handlers.json file stores your preferences that tell Firefox what to do when it comes across a particular type of file. For example, these are the settings that tell Firefox to open a PDF file with Acrobat Reader when you click on it. For more information, see Change what Firefox does when you click on or download a file.
• Stored session: The sessionstore.jsonlz4 file stores the currently open tabs and windows. For more information, see Restore previous session - Configure when Firefox shows your most recent tabs and windows.
• Toolbar customization: The xulstore.json file stores toolbar and window size / position settings. For more information, see

They call him "Ognelis", "FF" and "Mozilla". Some users believe Mozilla Firefox browser the worst that ever was created, citing a lot of security holes and a program's love of fatal errors as arguments. The opposing side calls this browser perfect, putting it on a par with the best programs for and surfing in. A hard-to-explain psychological effect has long been noticed: as soon as a person works in Firefox for a while, he falls in love with it forever. Becoming his adherent, admirer and adept.

Today, the Internet browser Mozilla Firefox ranks third in the world in popularity among all and a confident first place in the "Free Software" category.

In addition, there are countries where Firefox is more popular than worldwide. So, let's say, Firefox is the second in Russia, and in Germany it is the first. It is about what preceded such a deafening glory of this program that we will talk with you today.

The making of Firefox. Start

And the history of Firefox began with the fact that Netscape Communications really wanted to create a browser that would grab a piece of the pie from the incredibly popular Internet Explorer. Yes, yes, I was not mistaken, that's right: today in limbo and animated only by attempts, the IE browser at the end of the 20th century was extremely, downright fantastic, popular.

It was only natural that other companies did their best to replicate this success. Yes, let's face it, the Netscape 5 browser completely failed its fight with Internet Explorer in 1998, but it did not disappear without a trace - it was on its “remains” that the creation of a new program for surfing the Web began. Rather, the program, in fact, was written from scratch, only some ideas and pieces of open source code were taken from Netscape 5. The modern Firefox browser is based on the freely portable Gecko engine.

Until 2002, the development of the new browser was neither shaky nor shaky. As often happens, the crisis became the motivational kick for intensive work on the project. In 2002, AOL Time Warner Corporation, which owned Netscape Communications, decided to close the unprofitable project. However, the development of the new browser was not turned down, but separated into a separate structure of the Mozilla Foundation.

By the way, AOL Time Warner Corporation helped the new company a lot at the initial stage, providing it with computers, giving some initial funds and transferring intellectual property rights.

The making of Firefox. Continuation

Since the moment of gaining independence, the development of the project began to gain serious momentum. Already on September 23, 2002, the first version 0.1 was released. Frankly, the first release did not attract the attention of either the general public or specialists. Moreover, the program was so "raw" that many changes were made by the developers literally at full speed, at the time of using the program. Of course, this subsequently led to some compatibility problems. And yet a start was made: the browser saw the light of day and began to actively develop.

The new date in the history of the Mozilla Firefox browser can be safely considered November 9, 2004. On this day, the first stable version 1.0 was released. Sorry for the clichés, but the appearance of this version in its effect was akin to the effect of an exploding bomb. Users loved the new browser so much that in just a year it was installed by more than 100 million people. Moreover, Firefox gained 25 million downloads in the first 100 days after the program was posted on the Internet. Impressive numbers.

Then there were versions 1.5 (2005); 2.0 (2006); 3.0 (2008); 4.0 (2011) and so on. Each of the versions improved, optimized something, and brought new OS and additional functions into its orbit. As of March 2014, the Firefox browser has 27 stable versions, each of which only increased the army of the program's fans.

And interestingly, the name Firefox was far from the first. Nowadays, few people know, but initially the browser was called Phoenix, then Firebird, and only after both of these names were rejected due to copyright infringement by the developers, and the well-known to all appeared the Internet community a cute fire fox. Which, by the way, is not a fox at all, but a red panda. At least, this is exactly what the Chinese think, from whose language the name is literally translated.

Firefox creators

To date, both Mozilla Foundation staff and volunteers from around the world are working to maintain the functionality and expand the capabilities of the browser. And yet the browser has its "fathers", which are considered to be the creators of Firefox. There are only two of them - Blake Aaron Ross and Dave Hewitt. I think they deserve a few words.

Here I tried to recall some interesting facts that relate to the Firefox browser:

Firefox: predictions for the future

Today, when colossal funds are spinning in the IT sphere, every successful decision is akin to opening a real gold mine. And the Firefox browser is no exception in this case. For several years now, intensive work has been carried out to popularize and integrate it with mobile devices. The volume of special extensions available for browser owners is expanding. Media seeding is also actively carried out, thanks to which the growth of the popularity of Mozilla Firefox is constantly increasing.

In general, if you follow the statistics of downloads, we can conclude that very soon we will have another "redistribution of spheres of influence." Considering the fact that Firefox owners rarely switch to other web surfing systems, we can expect a significant jump in the popularity of this really very unusual and distinctive browser.

As statistics show, among users using desktop platforms, Firefox from Mozilla Corporation is considered the second most popular browser. The development has outstripped EDGE and IE11 "soft" ones, and the once leading Opera and "Apple" Safari does not consider them to be serious opponents at all.

The efforts of the developers are appreciated by many all over the world. And despite the fact that the indicators of Google Chrome are still prohibitively far away, the company regularly works on the release of new versions and debugging the accumulated errors and bugs.

If you also recently started using the "burning fox", then you probably ran into some misunderstanding of local processes. In this article, we will look at the option of user interaction with Firefox, or rather, with its history. It will not be difficult to delete history in Mozilla if you study the instructions below in detail.

Where is

Everyone is well aware of the phrase “The Internet remembers everything,” since once popular information has entered the network, it is instantly replicated by everyone around. But the destiny of browsers is to remember all the places that you have visited on the World Wide Web. Firefox, as one of the leaders, simply could not do without the history recording function. But not everyone can find a place where history in Mozile is kept for many weeks and months.

To track the entire path of Internet surfing and find a link to a site to which you want to return in the future, you need to use the built-in browser library. The entire path to it, and subsequently to the very archive of places, is available below:

First you need to open your browser. In the upper right corner, find and click on the "Menu" icon.

In the context menu that opens, click on the "Library" tab.

Select "Journal".

As you can see, the "Journal" contains all the available information about the places that we have visited (in order from the last visited). By clicking on one of the addresses, you will be automatically redirected to the corresponding site.

In addition, you can open the "Journal" from any page by simultaneously pressing the CTRL + H keys on the keyboard.

How to clean

There are situations when we need to hide information about the sites visited per day / week / month. In this case, you can rely on the browser, since it does not interfere with the editing of the journal in any way. Delete mentions of surfing the web at specific times? Or erase the entire history cleanly? Using the effective methods described below, you can achieve any results.

Through the magazine

The simplest way that will help to achieve the earliest deletion of part or all of the data is to use the "Journal" we are already familiar with. To do this, you need to open the history (see the "Where is located" section).

While in the log management menu, look for the command "Delete history".

Select a time span.

Then put a check mark on the parameters that you want to delete. Press the key when ready. Delete Now.

Partially erase records

If you do not want to lose your entire visit history, but are ready to selectively remove one or more links, then here's how to do it:

Open the extended version of the journal by pressing CTRL + H. Sort site visits by time, find the link you are interested in.

Right-clicking on it, select in the context menu "Delete page".

In browser settings

There is another option to clear history, through the built-in browser processes.

1. Open the Firefox menu.

1. Select "Settings".

1. In the new tab that opens, find the section "Privacy and Protection" and click on it with LMB.

1. Find the "History" parameter below, on the right side of which there will be a command "Delete history"... Further, the process will be identical to that described in points 2 and 3 of the subsection "Through the journal". In addition, in this directory, you can disable the function of remembering history, or customize it for yourself.

With CCleaner

But not a single browser. An option that is increasingly being used by most users is deleting history, cookies and cache using the CCLeaner desktop application. This is easy to explain: the program itself, with the help of notifications, informs the owner about the need to clear the trash on the computer. You can clean up your web history along with the trash can and the error registry. How to do this is described below.

If you have never encountered an application before, you can follow the link provided. In the same article, you will find instructions for installing and using the utility.

1. Open the CCleaner app. In the menu for choosing settings for future cleaning, select the tab "Applications / Applications".

This is how, easily and naturally, you can effectively manage your own browser Mozilla Firefox. The best option is to regularly delete history and cache, which will achieve the best performance and be calm about the safety of skeletons in the closet.

As statistics show, among users using desktop platforms, Firefox from Mozilla Corporation is considered the second most popular browser. The development has outstripped EDGE and IE11 "soft" ones, and the once leading Opera and "Apple" Safari does not consider them to be serious opponents at all.

The efforts of the developers are appreciated by many all over the world. And despite the fact that the indicators of Google Chrome are still prohibitively far away, the company regularly works on the release of new versions and debugging the accumulated errors and bugs.

If you also recently started using the "burning fox", then you probably ran into some misunderstanding of local processes. In this article, we will look at the option of user interaction with Firefox, or rather, with its history. It will not be difficult to delete history in Mozilla if you study the instructions below in detail.

Where is

Everyone is well aware of the phrase “The Internet remembers everything,” since once popular information has entered the network, it is instantly replicated by everyone around. But the destiny of browsers is to remember all the places that you have visited on the World Wide Web. Firefox, as one of the leaders, simply could not do without the history recording function. But not everyone can find a place where history in Mozile is kept for many weeks and months.

To track the entire path of Internet surfing and find a link to a site to which you want to return in the future, you need to use the built-in browser library. The entire path to it, and subsequently to the very archive of places, is available below:

First you need to open your browser. In the upper right corner, find and click on the "Menu" icon.

In the context menu that opens, click on the "Library" tab.

Select "Journal".

As you can see, the "Journal" contains all the available information about the places that we have visited (in order from the last visited). By clicking on one of the addresses, you will be automatically redirected to the corresponding site.

In addition, you can open the "Journal" from any page by simultaneously pressing the CTRL + H keys on the keyboard.

How to clean

There are situations when we need to hide information about the sites visited per day / week / month. In this case, you can rely on the browser, since it does not interfere with the editing of the journal in any way. Delete mentions of surfing the web at specific times? Or erase the entire history cleanly? Using the effective methods described below, you can achieve any results.

Through the magazine

The simplest way that will help to achieve the earliest deletion of part or all of the data is to use the "Journal" we are already familiar with. To do this, you need to open the history (see the "Where is located" section).

While in the log management menu, look for the command "Delete history".

Select a time span.

Then put a check mark on the parameters that you want to delete. Press the key when ready. Delete Now.

Partially erase records

If you do not want to lose your entire visit history, but are ready to selectively remove one or more links, then here's how to do it:

Open the extended version of the journal by pressing CTRL + H. Sort site visits by time, find the link you are interested in.

Right-clicking on it, select in the context menu "Delete page".

In browser settings

There is another option to clear history, through the built-in browser processes.

1. Open the Firefox menu.

1. Select "Settings".

1. In the new tab that opens, find the section "Privacy and Protection" and click on it with LMB.

1. Find the "History" parameter below, on the right side of which there will be a command "Delete history"... Further, the process will be identical to that described in points 2 and 3 of the subsection "Through the journal". In addition, in this directory, you can disable the function of remembering history, or customize it for yourself.

With CCleaner

But not a single browser. An option that is increasingly being used by most users is deleting history, cookies and cache using the CCLeaner desktop application. This is easy to explain: the program itself, with the help of notifications, informs the owner about the need to clear the trash on the computer. You can clean up your web history along with the trash can and the error registry. How to do this is described below.

If you have never encountered an application before, you can follow the link provided. In the same article, you will find instructions for installing and using the utility.

1. Open the CCleaner app. In the menu for choosing settings for future cleaning, select the tab "Applications / Applications".

This is how, easily and naturally, you can effectively manage your own browser Mozilla Firefox. The best option is to regularly delete history and cache, which will achieve the best performance and be calm about the safety of skeletons in the closet.

History in Mozilla Firefox allows you to quickly find an interesting unfamiliar site that has been lost sight of while surfing the web, to exercise parental control (what requests the child entered in a search engine, which sites they viewed). And also using the history in the Mozilla Firefox browser, you can quickly restore the previous session - open a group of tabs.

From this article, you will learn how to view the history in Firefox (where the links of visited pages are located in Mazila Firefox), how to manage the history of visits and save the URL, how to clear the entries in the browser history.

Log access and options

Firefox has two versions, or two views, of the history panel. Let's consider in detail how to use them.

Weblog

To open the window where the history is stored, click on the "History" section in the top FF menu. And then click the mouse to activate the command "Show entire log ..." (the first item in the list).

The "Library" window stores the URLs of the open pages by day. Each date has its own directory. If you need to see the history for the current day, left-click the "Today" icon.

And if you right-click on the directory, a list of operations that can be performed on a group of saved links for the selected day opens: view all pages in the browser (open all), copy the URL, or delete.

In the same way, you can perform various actions with individual links in the adjacent panel (loading in a tab, copying, deleting).

Additional commands are located in the "Control" section, click this inscription at the top of the window to open their list.

In the "View" section there is a setting for displaying records (Show Columns), it sets / removes the information columns of the journal (for each link) - address, tags, description, last visit, etc.

In the "Sorting" submenu, there is a list of attributes by which you can sort the web log data (by date, name, alphabet, etc.).

Advice! To quickly view the latest URLs placed in history, open the "History" section, they are displayed at the bottom of the panel.

Side panel

To view the visited pages in the side panel without closing the tab, click the "Menu" button in the top right panel. And from the tiled menu select "Journal".

In the drop-down window, you can view the recently saved URLs. Open closed pages in the browser ("Restore" option). And also expand the list of records on the left using the "Side Panel ..." command.

Attention! At the bottom of the list of web pages is the Show Entire Log command. It can be used to quickly jump to the Library panel (where history is in Firefox Mozilla).

In the mini-panel, directories of entries by date and options are available.

"Journal" - settings, management.

"View" - sorting of records by characteristics (specified in the drop-down list).

How do I delete a story?

To completely remove all entries, in the "Journal" menu, click "Delete recent history".

In the "Uninstall ..." window, set the cleaning parameters:

• in the first option "Delete" set the parameter "All";
• click on "Details", check the item "History of visits ...";
• click Remove Now.

For selective cleaning go to the "Library" window. Right-click on a group of entries (for example, "Today"). Activate the appropriate command.

Individual links are deleted in a similar way: right-click → Delete page.

If your browsing history contains links that are important to you, do not forget to save them, add bookmarks. Remember that for preventive purposes (deleting temporary files, private data), the journal must be periodically cleaned up.