Working for ChaCha.com is an interesting and challenging job. A lot depends on how efficiently the Guide can find information and deliver it to the customer.

To that end, I decided that I wanted to run a “clean” version of Firefox, ChaCha’s preferred browser, with only the addons deemed useful for Guides. This would decrease the likelihood of incompatibility issues among various addons, and allow me to keep my “fun” stuff for normal browsing.

While this article has some ChaCha-specific wording, the procedure laid out can be used for any situation where you’d want to create a separate profile within Firefox.

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