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Step-by-step guides for installing PowerOps, running browser profiles and driving them from code, with answers to common questions.
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Install PowerOps and open your first profile
From the installer to a browser profile running on your computer: sign in, let PowerOps fetch Orbit Browser, create a profile, add a proxy if you use one, and open it.
Guide · 10 min read
- Install PowerOps
- Sign in with your ArticleOps account
- Let PowerOps fetch Orbit Browser
- Create your first profile
- Add a proxy (optional)
- Open your first browser
Also in this guide: Keep PowerOps up to date, Uninstall PowerOps
Read the guideWhat a profile contains, how to find one by number or name, and how groups, bulk actions, export and live status keep many profiles manageable.
- Create many profiles at onceGuide · 3 min read
- Organise profiles into groupsGuide · 4 min read
- Open many profiles at onceGuide · 1 min read
- Export and import profilesGuide · 6 min read
- Share or move profiles to another workspaceGuide · 1 min read
- What a profile contains
- Create one or many
- Numbering and search
- Groups and folders
- Bulk operations
- Export and import
- Columns and the list
- Tags
- Change a profile's group from the row
- Selecting rows
- Open many at once
- Share or move to another workspace
- Free up disk space
- Live status on the row
How PowerOps generates a profile's device identity as one set, keeps it the same on every open, and changes it only when you ask.
- Generated as a set
- It stays the same every open
- Editing one field changes one field
- New fingerprint rotates the identity
Add and test proxy endpoints, assign them to profiles in bulk, and match each profile's timezone and locale to its route.
Go to ProxiesKeep the extensions your team uses in one library, add them from the Chrome Web Store or a package file, and choose which profiles run each one.
- The extension library
- Add one from the Chrome Web Store
- Add one from a file
- Choose which profiles run it
- Turn it off without removing it
- Built-in extensions
The Local API, its bearer key, attaching Playwright or Puppeteer to a running profile, and working through large jobs in batches.
Go to AutomationHow workspaces and roles work, inviting teammates, how synced sessions are encrypted, and what Cloud Sync moves between your computers.
- Workspaces and roles
- Switch workspace
- Invite by email
- How synced sessions are encrypted
- What Cloud Sync moves
- The single-holder lease
What to do when Windows warns about the installer, Orbit Browser does not finish downloading, a proxy test fails or a profile will not open, and where profile data lives.
- Recover from download, opening, proxy and sync problemsGuide · 7 min read
- PowerOps says it is working offlineGuide · 6 min read
- SmartScreen warns on first run
- Orbit Browser did not finish downloading
- A proxy test fails
- A profile will not open on this machine
- Where profile data lives on disk
What each page of Settings does: your account and team, appearance, the defaults new profiles get, this computer's own settings, the Browser Queue, storage, Cloud Sync, updates and diagnostics.
- Open Settings
- Account and Team
- Appearance
- Profile Preferences
- Local settings
- Browser Queue
- Downloads & Storage
- Cloud Sync
- Updates, Diagnostics and About
Moving profiles between computers, macOS, how updates are verified, and what Phones in the sidebar is.
- Can I move profiles between machines?
- Is there a macOS build?
- How do updates verify?
- What is Phones in the sidebar?
Try it on your own computer
PowerOps is a Windows download. Install it, sign in with your ArticleOps account, and the getting started guide takes you from there to your first open profile.