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I thought it had had that for twenty years?
Yeah I don't know why profiles itself are being mentioned as a new thing. What's new is the more convenient interface for them
you don't like about:profiles?
Show of Hands:
Who's heard of "about:profiles"?
🦗🦗🦗
Wait till you hear about:about
For some reason I read that in a Canadian accent in my head.
“aboot aboot”
🤯
Next they’re gonna tell me they haven’t heard of about:processes either
about:config has all the fame…
Been using it for years.
Been using multi account containers [1] for a couple weeks, complete with per-tab-SSL vpns.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
I use them all the time, they're great. I learned about it from another random Lemmy comment
I use it so much I have the tab pinned
I've been using it for years, too. I have it on my bookmarks bar, but this will certainly be better, I'd think.
I knew about the containers, which I’ve been using for a long time now. How is this different?
You can have a whole other instance of Firefox with different settings, extensions, themes, logins, bookmarks, history...
It's really handy imo to have a school/work profile with relevant bookmarks, history, extensions and then have a separate personal profile for all my personal shizz. Not to mention not having my personal stuff pop up in my school/work profile to avoid embarrassing moments and not having work shit annoy me on my personal profile.
Ohhh ok yeah that makes sense. Now I’m thinking about if I want to use it… hmm
Profiles can have separate settings which is nice. I heavily use tab containers, but the site used for online grad school requires 3rd party cookies for any of the embedded content to work. So I have a separate school profile that has 3rd party cookies enabled.
You can add -P to the shortcut to launch straight to the profile manager. Have to have no running instances when you do though.
I want to use it but I keep forgetting it exists. Something like this should just be accessible via button in the UI so no-one misses it
Just need it on mobile.
I don't find it or using the profile manager as convenient as what Chrome has
I think they are just making a ui to manage it natively.
firefox -p was also an UI. Not as fancy as this one.
Also
about:profilesif it’s already runningI tried it during covid when wfh started. I found it really annoying to switch between personal and work profiles. I prefer the chrome way of asking which profile each time I click the icon or having two separate icons.
Just add -P to Firefox launch flags once and then selected "prompt me everytime". This also has been true for rlike 20 years.
Or just -P "profilename" to launch that profile directly from a shortcut.
You can have as many running simultaneously as you'd want.
it's slightly different; before to have two profiles open at the same time you had to add no-remote and it was still quirky; now its much more streamlines and background links outside of firefox will open in whichever profile has focus.
I have two separate shortcuts, I just set it so that one shortcut opens one profile and the other the other profile.