Manage Profile Doesn't Show Created Profiles

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I Recently Downloaded Opera GX and Set up my Personal Account
And to set up a Secondary Profile I Went to Manage GX Profiles in Settings and Created a new Profile, but it doesn't exist now,
I was under the impression that when it said manage profiles it would show me my created profiles & I think I created 2-3 profiles just to see if I could find it but no I still Cant. Can somebody pls help me.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Windows 23H2 broke GX profiles a while ago. Opera is still trying to find the cause so it can be fixed.

You can create extra profiles the Chromium way for Opera GX for now.

[kane12]

kane12 @burnout426 last edited by kane12

@burnout426 Yes, I did the same to create extra profile on Opera.

[A Former User]

A Former User @burnout426 last edited by A Former User

@burnout426 Ok so this seems very helpful but then how do i access the 3 other profiles i created before,

Unfortunately i don't have a shortcut of them on my taskbar or desktop so i cant really access them

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@shadowx491 You need to create a shortcut with a command like this:

"C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera GX\launcher.exe"  --side-profile-name=363634345F31333031343339363039 --with-feature:side-profiles --no-default-browser-check --disable-usage-statistics-question

Replace the --side-profile-name= number ID with the ID of the folder for the profile in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera GX Stable_side_profiles".

That's for the "standard" profile configuration, if you want "rogue", add the --side-profile-clear-on-exit argument to the command.

If you want "streaming", add --side-profile-muted.

If you want "potato", add --side-profile-minimal.

If you don't want GX sounds and background music by default, add --side-profile-no-gx-sounds.

For each of the shortcuts for the existing profiles you create, you can change their icon to the "On the side.ico" icon in the corresponding ID folder.

If you don't remember what configuration one of the existing profiles has, there should be an XXXXXprofile.json file or something like that in the ID folder that tells you.

[A Former User]

A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426
Ok so how do i Find This:

ID of the folder for the profile in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera GX Stable_side_profiles".

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@shadowx491

Hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type:

explorer "%AppData%\Opera Software\Opera GX Stable\_side_profiles"

and press enter to open the side profiles folder.

In the side profiles folder will be the folder for each exsiting Opera GX side profile.

So, if you see the folder 31313730385F31393735353335323936 in there, then you'll want to create a shortcut with a side profile command that uses that ID.

So, you'd right-click on your desktop, goto "New", choose "shortcut", type:

"C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera GX\launcher.exe" --side-profile-name=31313730385F31393735353335323936 --with-feature:side-profiles --no-default-browser-check --disable-usage-statistics-question

(replace yourusername with the name of your user folder as seen in "C:\Users".)

in the "location for the item" field, click next, name the shortcut what you want, and click "Finish".

Then, once the shortcut is created, right-click it, goto "properties", click "Change icon" on the "Shortcut" tab and point it to the "On the side.ico" that's in the "_side_profiles\31313730385F31393735353335323936" folder.