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Profiles

Keep work and home apart, or share the PC: each profile is a separate browser with its own history, logins, extensions and settings.

What a profile keeps#

Each profile has its own windows, history, bookmarks, cookies and logins, saved passwords, extensions and settings. Nothing is shared between profiles. Luma starts with one profile, called Personal.

If you only need to keep two accounts on the same site apart, containers may be enough: they separate cookies inside one profile.

Create a profile#

1. Open Settings › Profiles, or choose ⋯ menu › Profiles.
2. Under New profile, type a name, for example “Work”.
3. Click Create. The new profile opens in its own window.

Switch between profiles#

In Settings › Profiles, click Open next to a profile, or Switch to if it already has a window open. Each profile’s windows stay separate, and you can have several open at once.

With more than one profile, you can turn on Ask which profile to use when Luma starts. Luma then opens with a Who’s using Luma? window. When it is off, Luma opens your first profile.

Rename and personalise#

• Click a profile’s name to change it.
• Click its picture (Change colour and picture) to pick a colour and a picture.

Delete a profile#

Click the bin next to a profile and confirm. Its windows close, and its history, bookmarks, cookies, saved sessions, extensions and settings are deleted from this PC. This can’t be undone. You can’t delete the profile you are using, or your first profile.