If you often change your profile due to any reason, you can create a desktop shortcut and pin it to Taskbar or Start Menu to open Firefox with that profile quickly. You need to open about:profiles to switch from the current profile to another once. Although Google Chrome has a user-friendly option to switch between profiles, Firefox doesn’t have a similar option. The problem starts when you want to switch from one profile to another. If the two in-built profiles are not enough for you, you can create a custom profile and personalize it as per your requirements. Whether you want to create a profile for video streaming or browsing, you can do everything normally with any profile. Like Google Chrome, you can create multiple profiles in the Mozilla Firefox browser. You do not need a third-party add-on or software to create a desktop shortcut to a specific profile and open the browser with that profile. Because you download Firefox from the official site, you can click Open.If you created multiple profiles in the Firefox browser and want to create a desktop shortcut to a specific Firefox profile, this step-by-step guide will help you do that. When you first start up Firefox, you will be warned that you downloaded Firefox from the Internet. Just click on its icon in the dock to start it. Just open your Applications folder and drag Firefox to the dock. You can add Firefox to your dock for easy access.After dragging Firefox to the Applications folder, hold down the controlkey while clicking in the window and select Eject 'Firefox' from the menu.Note: If you do not see this window, click the Firefox.dmg file that you downloaded to open it. Drag the Firefox Icon on top of the Applications folder in order to copy it there. Once the download has completed, the file (Firefox.dmg) should open by itself and pop open a Finder window containing the Firefox application.Note: If you want to have a choice of the language for your Firefox installation, select the ' Download in another language' link under the download button instead.Click the green download button to download Firefox.It will automatically detect the platform and language on your computer and recommend the best version of Firefox for you. Visit the Firefox download page in any browser (for example, Apple Safari).Congratulations, you are done installing Firefox! Double-click on the Mozilla Firefox icon whenever you want to go online.

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