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TheBigWazz / FF-Profile.md
Last active July 20, 2025 00:51
Firefox Profile Root Directory information

What is the Root Directory?

This direcotry stores all your profile's persistant data, including bookmarks, history, passwords, preferences, extensions, custom themes, website data, security settings, and browsing sessions.

How to find your Profile's Root Directory

Step One

  • In your URL bar, type: about:profiles and hit Enter.

Step Two

  • Identify which profile is in use. The about:profiles page will tell you which is currently in use.
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TheBigWazz / InstallTarZen.md
Last active August 15, 2025 03:17
How to install Tar version of Zen for Linux

Why not just install the flatpack version of Zen?

There is a bug in Flatpack versions of Mozilla that prevents the root directory of profiles from being created in the default location.

This makes installing UserChrome, UserContent, Sine, and Sine mods less automated and generally more complicated, or sometimes not at all possible.

You can fix this by instead installing the Tar version of Zen browser, in which profile directories work as expected.

Installation

Step One: Download Zen