I think they are just making a ui to manage it natively.
Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions
Flamekebab@piefed.social 17 hours ago
I thought it had had that for twenty years?
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 16 hours ago
coolmojo@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
firefox -p was also an UI. Not as fancy as this one.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 16 hours ago
Also
about:profiles
if it’s already running
notarobot@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
I 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.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Just add -P to Firefox launch flags. This also has been true for rlike 20 years.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Or just -P “profilename” to launch that profile directly from a shortcut.
You can have as many running as you’d want.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
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.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
I have two separate shortcuts, I just set it so that one shortcut opens one profile and the other the other profile.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
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
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 13 hours ago
you don’t like about:profiles?
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Show of Hands:
Who’s heard of “about:profiles”?
🦗🦗🦗
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 12 hours ago
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/
mr_satan@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Wait till you hear about:about
Nalivai@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I use them all the time, they’re great. I learned about it from another random Lemmy comment
Mechanite@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I use it so much I have the tab pinned
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
I’ve been using it for years, too. I have it on my bookmarks bar, but this will certainly be better, I’d think.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I knew about the containers, which I’ve been using for a long time now. How is this different?
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
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.
fitgse@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
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.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 12 hours ago
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
Dultas@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You can add -P to the shortcut to launch straight to the profile manager. Have to have no running instances when you do though.
Dultas@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Just need it on mobile.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
I don’t find it or using the profile manager as convenient as what Chrome has