Launch, stop and monitor profiles

This guide shows you how to start and stop profiles, what each status means, what to do when a launch stops, and how owners and admins can watch running profiles.

Start and stop one profile

1. Go to Browser Profiles, then the Profiles tab.
2. Click Start in the profile’s row.
3. When you’re done, click Stop, or close the browser window.

Starting a profile also shows the floating Codes window, unless you’ve hidden it yourself. See Verification codes.

What the button means

Button	What’s happening
Start	The profile is closed. Click to open it.
Starting…	The browser is opening.
Stop	The profile is running on this computer. Click to close it.
Uploading…	The browser has closed and the session is being saved. Wait for Start to come back.
Running	The profile is already running, and this control can’t stop it from here.
In use	Someone else, or another of your devices, has it open. You can’t start it until it closes.

Running rows are highlighted in the table.

Start or stop several

1. Tick the profiles.
2. In the bar at the bottom, click Launch or Stop.

You can also right-click a selected row and choose Launch or Stop.

If you pick more than 3, the app asks you to confirm, because each one opens a browser window. Profiles that are already open are skipped. Each session is saved before it closes.

Quit the app with profiles open

When you quit, the app shows Closing sessions… while it saves and closes each running profile. Wait for it to finish.

When a launch stops

ExitNode checks a profile’s proxy before it opens the browser. If there’s a problem, the profile doesn’t open.

Launch blocked

The Launch blocked dialog explains the problem and lists your other active proxies.

• Click Use beside a proxy to switch to it and launch again.
• If the profile draws from a pool, click Take the next one from the pool’s name to get another from there.
• Click Cancel to leave the profile as it is.

Common reasons shown:

Message	What it means
The proxy was unreachable.	The proxy didn’t answer.
Exit IP differs from the tested IP.	The proxy now exits from a different IP than when it was tested.
Exit IP changed	The same, with both IPs shown.
The assigned proxy is disabled.	The proxy was turned off.
Needs a proxy	The profile has no usable proxy. See Keep a profile on your proxies.

Tested gateway unreachable

This appears for some sticky proxies, when this computer can’t reach the route the proxy was tested on. If you can manage proxies, you can click Launch through this computer’s route anyway. The exit IP is still checked, and a different one still blocks the launch. Without that permission, you only see the message.

Proxy not answering

The proxy didn’t answer. You can retry, or pick another proxy.

Monitoring

Owners and admins can see live thumbnails of the profiles their team has open. Monitoring in the sidebar only appears for them.

Turn it on

1. Click Monitoring in the sidebar.
2. Click Enable monitoring.

The heading changes to Live monitoring on. Everyone in the organization sees a Monitoring on chip at the top of the app while it’s on.

To turn it off, click Disable.

Read the grid

Each running profile has a card with:

• A thumbnail of the browser.
• The profile’s name, with a green dot if it updated in the last few seconds.
• The device it’s running on, and how long ago the thumbnail was taken.

A card disappears shortly after the profile stops. Use Search profiles… to filter by profile or device name.

See what your team is running

The Team screen’s Live tab shows who’s online and which profiles each person has open. See Activity and history.

Limits on running profiles

An owner or admin can limit how many browsers a person opens at once. See Credits and limits.

If something goes wrong

“Profile is already active” The profile is already open or still closing. Wait for the button to change.

“No launchable profiles in selection” Every profile you picked is already open or in use.

“No running profiles in selection” None of the profiles you picked are running on this computer.

“You can have N browsers open at once. Close one, or ask an owner or admin to raise the limit.” You’ve reached your limit. Close a browser first.

“This computer is blocked from opening this organization’s profiles. Ask an owner or admin.” Someone blocked this device for this organization. They can unblock it under Team, Members.

“Device limit reached (3 per login)” This login already runs on 3 devices. Revoke one under Devices in the web app. See Change your settings.

“The Exora browser is not installed yet” Let the app finish downloading, or open Settings and click Install browser.

“Only organization owners and admins can view monitoring.” Monitoring isn’t available for your role.