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Managing Profiles

Editing Profile Settings​

There are several ways to edit an already existing profile:

Regular profile editing​

Standard profile editing

To change profile settings, click on the vertical ellipsis (three dots) in the profile list, and select Edit profile. In the window that appears you can edit all available settings except the Operating System. After editing the profile, click "Save".

If you start editing a running profile, all the changes made will take effect only after the profile is restarted. To do this, close the profile (click on the Stop button or close the profile window), and start it again.

Quick Profile Editing​

Quick profile editing is used to conveniently make some changes to the profile settings. In the quick edit mode, you can:

  • change basic profile data (Profile name, Description, Tags)

Quick Profile Data Edit

  • change connection settings (select proxy from the list, or create a new proxy)

Quick Profile Proxy Edit

Cloning profiles​

The option to clone profiles can be useful if you need to reuse an existing profile fingerprint without the profile contents. All fingerprint data of the selected profile is cloned from the following sections: Basic (except the profile description), General, Hardware, Connection, Storages, and Extensions, while the storage contents (cookies, local storage, passwords, tabs) is not cloned.

To clone a profile, click on the vertical ellipsis, click on Clone, and enter the required number of cloned profiles in the pop-up window.

Clone Profile

As with any other profile, you can change all data in a cloned profile (except for the OS), in any convenient way (standard or quick editing).

Transferring profiles​

The profile transfer option may be necessary to completely transfer profiles to another Octo Browser account (user). You can transfer profiles both individually and in bulk.

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Please note that the extensions added to the profile will not be transferred with the profile.

To transfer one profile, click on the vertical ellipsis of the necessary profile and click on Transfer. Provide the e-mail address of an existing Octo Browser (make sure it is correct!). If you need to transfer the profile with its proxy, tick "Transfer with Proxy?".

Transfer Profile

To transfer several profiles in bulk, you need to select the desired profiles in the list and click on Transfer in the mass actions menu next to the search bar. If necessary, you can transfer profiles with their proxies.

Bulk Transfer Profile

Be careful when providing the e-mail. After the transfer the profile will become unavailable to the previous owner.

Learn more about creating and managing profiles on multiple devices or accounts here.

Profile history​

The profile history shows the last 100 profile activities. It records such activities as:

  • Creating a profile
  • Launching a profile
  • Successful synchronization (and profile version)
  • Closing a profile

Additionally, the profile history indicates the account that performed these actions. This option is useful for teamwork, when several team members have access to the same profiles. In such cases you can see who and when performed specific actions with the profile.

Profile History

Force stopping a profile​

Force stopping a profile allows you to set a running profile status to inactive if this profile was not closed for some reason. The latest profile version (the one that is running and has not been closed) will not be synchronized (it will be ignored). Instead, you will be able to restart this profile using the last successfully synchronized profile version.

Read more about profile synchronization here.

Deleting a profile​

To delete a profile, click on the vertical ellipsis next to the profile and click on Move to Trash. To delete profiles in bulk, select the required profiles in the list, and in the bulk actions menu that appears for (next to the search bar), click on Move to Trash.