How to find Firefox Profile folder on Windows PC

Like most browsers, Mozilla’s Firefox saves personal information of its users such as bookmarks, passwords, and preferences in a set of files called Your Profile. This profile is maintained at a location different from the Firefox program files. So, if you want to learn how to find your profile without opening the Firefox browser, read this tutorial.

Find Firefox Profile folder on Windows PC

The normal way to find or locate your profile is to click the ‘Open menu’ button, which appears as three horizontal bars, and choose the Help option.

Then, click the side-arrow to locate ‘Troubleshooting Information’ option under ‘Help’ section.

Click the ‘Troubleshooting Information’ tab to open it. The page contains technical information that might be useful when you’re trying to solve a problem.

Then, under the Application Basics section, click on Open Folder. Your profile folder will open.

If you cannot open or use Firefox, you will need to open your profile without opening Firefox. There’s a way of doing it. Here’s how!

Locate Your profile without opening Firefox browser

Firefox browser, by default, stores your profile folder at this location on your computer –

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

However, Windows hides the AppData folder from direct view. You can locate your profile folder as follows:

Press Windows Key +R on the keyboard. A Run dialog will appear on your computer screen.

Type the following text in the empty field of the ‘Run’ dialog box –

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

Click OK. If prompted for permission, click ‘Yes’. Soon after that, a window will open containing profile folders.

Double-click the profile folder you wish to open. If you only have one profile, its folder would have “default” in the name. You can have multiple Firefox profiles, each containing a separate set of user information.