Profiles

A profile is a browser of its own. Its history, cookies and sign-ins, extensions, open tabs, downloads list, notes, and settings stay in it, and nothing passes between profiles. The profile you start with is the default one.

Manage them in Settings → Profiles.

Making a profile

Under New profile, give it a name and a color. It starts empty, in a window of its own. To fill it from another browser, use Settings → Import in that window. See Importing.

Switching

• ⌘Ctrl⇧ShiftM opens the profile menu from any window.
• The profile chip at the top right of the window opens the same menu. It shows while you have more than one profile.
• The command center's bottom bar ends with this window's profile. Press it to see every profile, then press one to switch this window to it. ⇧Shift-press, or Open in new window in its right-click menu, opens a new window instead.
• The browser menu and the app menu have Profiles too.
• Right-click a link and pick Open link as to open it in another profile.

While the command center's profile popup is open, the arrow keys move between profiles, Enter switches, ⇧ShiftEnter opens a new window, 1 to 9 pick by place, and Esc closes it.

Each profile runs on its own, so switching hands this window's place on screen to the other profile's window. The first switch to a profile that isn't running yet takes a moment while it starts. The window you left is hidden, not closed: its tabs keep running, and it comes back when you switch back.

Links from other apps open in the default profile.

Changing a profile

Right-click a profile in Settings → Profiles, or use its row:

• Rename, and Color to pick another color.
• Choose icon… picks an icon to show on its color, or go back to its initial. Upload picture… uses an image of your own.
• Create desktop shortcut puts a shortcut on your desktop that opens the browser straight into that profile. Its icon carries the profile's badge. Renaming or recoloring the profile doesn't update a shortcut you've already made; make it again.
• Badge in titlebar shows or hides the profile chip in that profile's windows. ⌘Ctrl⇧ShiftM still works without it. The same choice is in Settings → Profiles → Titlebar badge.

While you have more than one profile, the app's icon in the Dock or taskbar carries the window's profile badge. On Windows, each profile gets its own taskbar button.

Moving a profile to another computer

Export… in a profile's menu saves it as one .1zeroprofile file: history, settings, open tabs, cookies and site data, extensions, site permissions, and its own theme and background. Import… at the top of Settings → Profiles makes a new profile from a file, or drop the file on that section.

A profile has to be closed to export it, unless it's the one you're in.

On another computer, cookies and saved sign-ins usually don't carry over, because your operating system encrypts them with a key that stays on the first computer. You'll need to sign in to sites again there. Everything else comes through.

Deleting a profile

Delete… in a profile's menu removes it and everything in it. If it's open, its windows close. The default profile can't be deleted, and neither can the profile of the window you're in.

What profiles share

Most things are kept apart. A few belong to the whole app:

• Theme and background. The default profile's are shared with every 1zero app. Other profiles start with the same look and then keep their own changes. See Appearance.
• 1zero account. The default profile's sign-in is shared with your other 1zero apps. Other profiles sign in on their own. See Account.
• Achievements count across every profile.
• The welcome tour and What's new show once, not once per profile.
• Updates. Only the default profile downloads and installs them, so two profiles never update at once. See Updates.

For a window that keeps nothing at all, use an incognito window instead.