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    • lando242
      lando242 last edited by

      Both of those guides are very out of date. They are for version 12 of Opera and earlier.

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      • drumsxo
        drumsxo last edited by

        Both of those guides are very out of date. They are for version 12 of Opera and earlier.

        Do you know of any newer guides? I haven't been able to figure it out on my own, and searching on Google only brings me to those two tutorials. 😞

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        • drumsxo
          drumsxo last edited by

          Bump. Does anyone know how to do this, if it can even be done?

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

            You can install Opera in standalone mode or you can use the command line --profile-directory (--profile-directory="x:/pathto/profile").

            Or, even better, create and use profiles on Windows.

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            • drumsxo
              drumsxo last edited by

              I'm not sure what you mean when you mention the command line.

              As for creating multiple profiles on Windows; I'd rather not have to do that. I have a couple of YouTube channels as well as a couple of Instagram accounts and things like that that I'd like to manage without having to log in and out of them all the time.

              I also don't like any other browser, so I want to be able to do this in Opera, if it's possible.

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              • lando242
                lando242 last edited by

                He means adding command line modifiers to the Opera shortcut. Opera uses most of the same options that Chrome does. If you google around for a bit I'm sure you could find the commands for multiple profiles for Chrome, which would work for Opera.

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                • drumsxo
                  drumsxo last edited by

                  I think that's what that video was trying to help me do, and it didn't work.

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                  • lando242
                    lando242 last edited by

                    What video?

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                    • drumsxo
                      drumsxo last edited by

                      The one I have a link to in my first post in this thread.

                      http://goo.gl/uaiSoh

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                      • lando242
                        lando242 last edited by

                        As I said above, that video is for an older version of Opera. It is very, very out of date and does not apply to current versions. The newer versions of Opera use the same method as Google Chrome. So it would have to be a guide written in the last year or two. That video is from 2012.

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                        • drumsxo
                          drumsxo last edited by

                          Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, guys; I got this working!

                          I found a post on SuperUser (http://superuser.com/a/361749) that told how to do it in Chrome, and it worked!

                          All I did was create new the new profile, make another Opera shortcut, then add "--user-data-dir=" and the path to the new profile and; voila! 😃

                          Thanks, guys! 😃

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