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Opera Profile Creator

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:21:40 AM

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You can create another profile manually but it is cumbersome in Windows (In Linux, use command line opera -pd ~/opera-profile-new/ to create new profile). Opera Profile Creator was created using AutoHotkey to make profile creation easier.

You can use another profile to

  • login to another accounts of a site simultaneously.
  • load a site that crashes Opera frequently.
  • play with settings without affecting your existing profile.
  • check whether there is a problem in existing profile.

Download (size: 204 KB), unzip, place OperaProfileCreator.exe anywhere and run it to create new profile. Click the newly created shortcut to start Opera with new clean profile.

Opera Profile Creator
Opera Profile Creator

You can create as many profiles as you want and run them simultaneously with single Opera installation.

  • Path to new profile directory should not have trailing slash (/) when you enter it manually.
  • Path to shortcut should end with .lnk as shown in screenshot.

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Comments

z@h3kZAHEK Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:49:39 PM

You are crazy smile Thanks.

Tamil Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:53:50 PM

Remco Lantingremcolanting Tuesday, December 23, 2008 3:45:19 PM

Opera on linux has a command line shortcut for it already:

opera -pd /path/to/new/profile/dir

Tobbi Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:08:33 PM

Thx a lot.

StelianLZ2SDC Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:31:28 PM

On my computer always working with two users of Opera, I do it manually, (copy and rename folder Opera), but this is pretty easy. Thank You Tamil!

Charles SchlossChas4 Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:44:53 AM

for Crazy: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7731282909647723368&ei=AqFRSbeoEYnojgKFhYDMCw&q=crazy+by+gnarls+barkley

Is there anything similar for Macs?

rseiler Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3:59:46 AM

I'm afraid I don't follow the meaning of the "Opera Profile Creator was created to make it easier using AutoHotkey" sentence. Is a word missing perhaps? What does the macro-recording program AutoHotkey have to do with Opera Profile Creator, exactly?

Tamil Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:01:27 AM

Originally posted by remcolanting:

Opera on linux has a command line shortcut for it already

Thanks.

Originally posted by Chas4:

Is there anything similar for Macs?

I don't know.

Originally posted by rseiler:

What does the macro-recording program AutoHotkey have to do with Opera Profile Creator, exactly?

I forget to rearrange words. doh

Mohsenlvloh3nn Wednesday, December 24, 2008 5:56:11 PM

tnx
it was the best thing that can be made for me!!!!!
i always had 2 opera installed. and now i can do my job with just one opera
tnx a lot

Anonymous Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:30:04 PM

Chenara sur writes: I like opra...And shakila

HenryAOTEAROAnz Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:06:27 PM

bigsmile
OPC..:zipped!: Thankyou Tamil. up

Anonymous Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:42:35 PM

Anonymous writes: Does not work for Opera 10

Tamil Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:30:48 PM

I already updated and wait for bug fix in Opera 10.

Anonymous Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:13:30 AM

Anonymous writes: OK!

Dan Alexandrudantesoft Monday, July 13, 2009 5:55:12 AM

Seems to work here in build #1631.

Tamil Monday, July 13, 2009 9:34:59 AM

yes but... sad

capitanqueso Monday, July 13, 2009 1:04:28 PM

Thanks Tamil this is great stuff!! Could you make something to recover file extensions from cache??? (*.MP3,*.FLV,*.WMV,*.GIF,*.JPG,*.HTML) they are missing since Opera 9.27.
If it can be created with real name too, It will be awesome.

Tamil Monday, July 13, 2009 3:10:58 PM

Try OperaCacheView

capitanqueso Friday, July 17, 2009 11:03:44 PM

Originally posted by Tamil:

Try OperaCacheView


Thanks a lot,yes it works until they fix this awful mistake. irked

Tamil Saturday, July 18, 2009 3:51:19 AM

Originally posted by capitanqueso:

awful mistake

It is not a mistake or bug.

Anonymous Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:04:18 PM

Anonymous writes: Well i see 100% of user are happy i'll download now,, but i hav a Q.. if i make the profile on my windows admi acc, a then logout and login as Windows Guest acc, i'll hav the opt to use whatever prof i want to.. or ill need to make'it on every windows account? thank in advance Tamil

Tamil Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:26:09 PM

It will work if there is no permission issues.

HrGomez Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:33:38 AM

ok, work.. now how can i password protect those profiles,,? because i create 4 profile for 4 different user..
i don't want every body jump in everybody bookmark

Thank again nice and needeble program!! haha

Tamil Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:03:56 AM

You have to use third party programs like Blowfish Advanced CS or TrueCrypt.

Anonymous Thursday, December 3, 2009 10:08:38 AM

Claudio writes: Hi, I have a problem with Opera 10.10. Sometimes, using the second profile, some images from sites visited with the first profile are displayed instead of right images. I do not know why, maybe the cache directory is the same and opera assigns the same filename to those images. For example, I visit my university site with first profile, and when I visit a forum with second profile instead seeing smiley I see my university's logo. The only way to solve seems to be to delete entire cache. I tried to delete the two profiles and to recreate them, but nothing changed. Any idea?

Tamil Thursday, December 3, 2009 10:32:34 AM

bug See http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=277264

KryptoKnightAleksOD Sunday, December 20, 2009 3:36:30 AM

Tamil, thanks for this tool! yes

(I am working on a "secret" project that requires multiple Opera profiles, and this is just what I need bigsmile )

Tamil Sunday, December 20, 2009 8:00:07 AM

sherlock

Anonymous Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:47:45 AM

Anonymous writes: I cant even open opera it says to send an errorreport and when I do it says it can't send:( it also says that I have to log in my crash log manually...what does that mean?

Tamil Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:24:38 AM

Opera crashes due to some problem. See http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/888/

Anonymous Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:15:57 PM

Suedehead writes: I'm using linux, the profile was created but I don't know how to run it!, none of the files seem to open it, also, Where do I put which one I want to use?, clicking on the icon just starts the old one.

Tamil Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:51:59 PM

Opera Profile Creator is for Windows. Create a new shortcut with the following or run the following command in terminal. 
opera -pd ~/opera-profile-new/

Anonymous Friday, January 28, 2011 1:11:40 AM

Suedehead writes: Hello and thanks for the reply. That's the command I used, it created a new profile (folder and files) but after closing that browsing session I wasn't able to open it again, I've clicked on all the files inside the "profile-02" folder with no luck. And of course, if I click on the "Opera" icon it opens the usual profile. Is there any way to keep using the nre one?, Or can I only temporarily browse with it?

Tamil Friday, January 28, 2011 1:26:22 AM

Use the same command to open again.

Anonymous Friday, January 28, 2011 1:51:59 AM

Suedehead writes: Alright, I get it now, thank you very much Tamil!

Tamil Friday, January 28, 2011 2:03:43 AM

smile

Leo AlfaroLeoIII Saturday, March 26, 2011 5:44:55 PM

Does it work for Opera 11?

Tamil Saturday, March 26, 2011 5:54:14 PM

Leo AlfaroLeoIII Saturday, March 26, 2011 6:30:56 PM

Thanks! I was looking for this tool for months! Thank you bigsmile

Tamil Saturday, March 26, 2011 10:35:32 PM

See latest blog post for source code. smile

Anonymous Monday, April 18, 2011 2:39:46 PM

Zura writes: Thank you very much!

Anonymous Monday, April 18, 2011 3:11:25 PM

Zura writes: Although there seems to be a problem regarding styles (CSS) in both profile operas. Please test on latest - 11.10 version.

Anonymous Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:27:56 AM

Zura writes: Hi Is it possible to share bookmarks and feeds? (Not just copy...)

Tamil Wednesday, April 27, 2011 3:28:54 PM

Yes but you should run only one at a time.

Daniel Aleksandersendaniel Tuesday, July 26, 2011 7:03:00 AM

For Opera 11.01 and newer on Mac, use these instructions instead.

Zalex ;-) Zalex108 Tuesday, August 2, 2011 2:08:32 AM

Hi!
I was using a similar/Manual way to create custom profiles, but I have a problem when using Extensions/Unite, because they rewrite the other profiles so it's a problem.
Using your app, are the Extensions / Unite, completely independent on its profile¿?

Thx! wink

Tamil Tuesday, August 2, 2011 9:04:57 AM

Zalex ;-) Zalex108 Tuesday, August 2, 2011 1:23:50 PM

Thx!
I'm gona try it asap! wink

arnymars Monday, October 10, 2011 2:14:51 PM

A popular use for Opera Profile Creator is to make it easier for a user to move Opera Profile to another (non-system) drive, which moves Opera Temp & Cache files away from the system drive to keep it clean. Otherwise blue screen often shows up at PC wakeup from Standby due to disk corruption, especially when Opera rushes to update staff at wakeup.

Can you add "Pass to new Local Directory" field to this app, and make it change all relevant links in Opera:config? Its very frustrating to do it manually each time a new profile is created. You can even pre-populate the field with existing pass, in case a user doesn't want to change it. To avoid user mix up in profile transition, it makes sense to keep the same profile structure though, which consist of 2 folders: Profile and Local.

Tamil Tuesday, October 11, 2011 8:44:26 AM

You can install Opera as stand-alone installation (USB) or use symbolic link.

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