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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Ironically, in the article it's pictured running on Windows, which now has a built-in mechanic for automatically screen shotting everything you do and keeping records.

Yay.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Uhm ... is this perhaps for the android browser then?

The desktop browser has had this for a long long time, though in recent builds a bit hidden. I still use various profiles, very handy.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

No, this is to make the desktop browser profiles work more like Chrome.

[–] alastel@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

One thing that I wonder is if I can convert my old firefox -P profiles into this new kind of profiles, and have them all be synced by firefox with a single account instead of recreating them on all my devices. On the filesystem they seem to be the same, just not in the same place.

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[–] m3t00@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

tried tab groups, waste of time. trying to save my pinned tabs from disappearing. have to avoid closing single tab windows last. opens on the single tab and pins are lost. keep about 20 pinned in one window.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

pins are attached to the specific window. if you close the windows one by one it trashes them. use the quit function in the menu on the right, that it does not trash the windows, each of them will reopen next timealong with the pins

[–] mr_satan@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

You can usually find recently closed windows in history.

[–] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Finally! Profile management is easily the worst feature in firefox

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[–] TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I wish there was a feature like this on YouTube. I'd love a profile for watching educational videos, a profile for feeding me cool videos when I'm high, and a profile for when my kids want to watch stuff. I'm tired of vibing and listening to music videos only to get hit with a language learning podcast or Disney songs.

It's insane that they have an incognito mode that still serves up ads even though I have premium.

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can create different accounts under different email addresses.

Once you're logged in, you can switch between accounts from the dropdown menu.

I've done this in the past to separate French YouTube recs from English ones.

[–] TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I did this as well but the other accounts get ads because the premium only applies to my first account. Terrible user experience and Google go hand in hand

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Youtube > Profile picture > Settings > Add or manage your channel(s) > create a channel

You basically get a new "profile" with your own subs, history, profile picture, and comments and premium/channel subscriptions apply to all of them

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They do have categories and I've tried to put different channels in different categories, but the thing is just so hard to use I gave up.

It's quite surprising how bad Google can be at UX.

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[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Zen has "workspaces", which I don't get at all. Profiles seems like too much, containers works fine for me.

Crazy all the useless nonsense Mozilla has room for, since they helped kill RSS by dropping browser UI support for it for "simplification". It was the same rationale for removing live bookmarks and Shift+Enter to add .net to an address and Ctrl+Shift+Enter for .org.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

You can assign containers to workspaces so that you can use work stuff one workspace, gaming stuff in one and so on.

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