Move Firefox user settings to another folder on same machine

Posted by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Published on 2010-05-06T11:06:00Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 11:08 UTC
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Due to company restrictions where I currently work, My windows users folder %USERPROFILE% is space restricted.

I get a warning that I must delete files before I can log off.

Because of that, I have moved everything else out of my profile folder (maven repository, IntelliJ configuration & cache).

I need to tell Firefox to put userprofiles somewhere else on my machine (like for instance C:\ff_profiles\ ). How do I do that?

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