Creating a profile

How to create a profile, what each field of the editor sets, and how to launch, stop, change and delete a profile.

Creating a profile

In the profiles window, click New Profile (⌘N), or choose New Profile… in the command palette (⌘K). With no profiles yet, the button also sits mid-window.
The New Profile editor opens with a name filled in - "Profile" and a number. Change it as you like; it cannot be empty.
Set the rest now or later: every field has a default.
Click Save. The profile appears under Ready; it does not start by itself.

Cancel closes the editor without saving.

The editor's fields

The editor is one screen in seven parts; the list on the left jumps to each. Changes apply at the next launch.

Part	Fields	Default
Profile	Name, Glyph, Tags, Notes, Start URL, Search engine, Ephemeral	blank start page, DuckDuckGo, persistent
Connection	Connection: No Proxy, From the List or New; WebRTC	No Proxy, WebRTC Disabled
Identity	View for websites, Safari version in the User-Agent, Custom user agent	Safari on macOS 26 (matches this engine), this Mac's Safari version
Window	Window size	Custom size, picked at random
Location and Language	Geolocation, Time zone and language	Deny, From the connection
Privacy	Local requests, Safe Browsing (lookups bypass the proxy)	Protect, Safe Browsing off
Data	Cookies, History, Passwords, Sync	history kept for 3 months; password AutoFill and cookie sync on

For new profiles, the search engine, time zone and language, local requests and window size come from Settings (⌘,) → New Profiles, shown here as first set.

Profile

The Glyph (a colour and up to two letters of your own), Tags and Notes are for you alone: the list finds profiles by them, and no site sees them. The Start URL is the first page at launch.

An Ephemeral profile writes no website data or history to disk, so none of it outlives a stop; bookmarks are still kept. Its row says "Ephemeral · nothing kept"; the Ephemeral filter lists them all.

Connection and identity

Proxies and WebRTC: see Proxies: setup, and when one fails.

View for websites: Safari on this Mac, an iPhone or an iPad (see Mobile view); either way, this Mac's WebKit shows the pages. Safari version in the User-Agent changes only the version named - one from another major release is marked risky. Custom user agent replaces the whole string.

Window

Window size: As it is (real device), a MacBook Air's or Pro's screen below the menu bar, or a Custom size in points. New profiles get a random size that fits the screen, so they do not all open alike. Pages measure this real window; the screen they are told about stays this Mac's.

Location and language

No field is called "country". From the connection uses the time zone and language of where the proxy comes out, looked up through the proxy at each launch; without a proxy, this Mac's. Manual sets your own; Random keeps one country's pair until you click Pick another.

WebKit takes the language once per run: profiles sharing the app's process get the first started one's; a profile running as its own app has its own.

The editor has no warm-up country. Choose it under ⋯ → Warm Up…: a Ready-made list from By country, or Put together for me, which puts the proxy country's sites first.

Data

Cookies pasted or dropped into Cookies reach a new profile at its first launch, before the first page. See Importing and exporting cookies.

Launching and stopping

In the profile's row, click Launch. While it starts, the row says "Starting…".
The profile moves to Running, and its row shows New Window and Stop.
Stop closes the profile and encrypts its data - the row says "Encrypting data…". Then the profile is back under Ready.

Closing a profile's last window stops it too. To launch several at once, see Several profiles at once.

The profile's window

The window depends on Each profile its own app in the Dock (Settings → Behavior):

On (the default): the profile is an app of its own - its own process, a Dock icon with its initials, and Safari's own window with its address bar, tabs and menus; tabs, zoom and downloads follow Safari's settings.
Off: profiles open in Lumen's windows, with the address field and the profile's chip at the top: its glyph, name and the flag of the country its proxy exits in.

iPhone and iPad views, and a profile whose WebRTC goes through the network extension, always open in a Lumen window.

Editing, copying and deleting

Edit

⋯ in the profile's row (or a right-click on the row) → Edit… opens the same editor. A running profile picks up the changes after a restart.

Make a copy

There is no Duplicate command. Export makes a copy with all the data: ⋯ → Export Profile… (the file gets a password of its own), then ⋯ next to New Profile → Import Profile…, which adds it as a new profile; Profile name can rename it.

Delete

⋯ → Delete…, then Delete Profile and All Its Data. The profile's cookies, site data, cache, settings, history, bookmarks and saved passwords are deleted; a running profile is stopped first. To keep a copy, export it first.