Creating a new profile with Opera in OS X
Jan 19th, 2009 by iheni
At the moment I run a couple of different versions of Opera so I can test things out on new alpha and beta builds. This is great if you want to try out new implementations of HTML 5, canvass, SVG web fonts and other deliciousness. If you run two versions for testing and browsing however you may want to save different profiles so that you can keep your passwords, bookmarks, notes and so on separate.
To do this on Mac OSX you’ll need to do the following:
- Make sure you save your different versions of Opera with different names in the Applications folder. For example “Opera10.app” and “Opera96.app”.
- Open up the Terminal by going to Applications > Utilities > and Terminal on your hard drive.
- Type in “cd /ApplicationsLocation/Opera96.app/Contents/Resources/”. Note that “ApplicationsLocation” will be the name of the file you keep your applications in so the name may change. Note also that I have used “Opera96.app” but this will also depend on what you have saved it as. Hit return.
- Type in “echo “RandomString” >> PrefsSuffix”. Switch “RandomString” for whatever you want to call the file, so for example I would say Opera96 for the Opera96 profile.
And you’re done, you’ll have two separate profiles set up so you can treat both version of Opera as different. Hat tip to Zibin for showing me the ropes.