Firefox – How to make Firefox use addons for multiple profiles

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I created a new profile on firefox for testing reasons. I notice no addons except Skype is on it.

How do i set up addons to work across profiles?

I have about 10 and I'd rather not download them again for every profile.

Best Answer

Basically you need to download the .xpi for the extension you want to install. Then run the following command:

\path\to\firefox -install-global-extension \path\to\extension.xpi

I don't know if you can make already installed extensions global after they are installed. Perhaps a combination of this approach with @ChrisF's answer would solve that problem.

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