Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you don’t like about:profiles?

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Show of Hands:

      Who’s heard of “about:profiles”?

      🦗🦗🦗

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      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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/

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      • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wait till you hear about:about

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      • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I use them all the time, they’re great. I learned about it from another random Lemmy comment

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      • Mechanite@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I use it so much I have the tab pinned

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      • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Next they’re gonna tell me they haven’t heard of about:processes either

        about:config has all the fame…

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I knew about the containers, which I’ve been using for a long time now. How is this different?

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • fitgse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t find it or using the profile manager as convenient as what Chrome has

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    • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just need it on mobile.

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• muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think they are just making a ui to manage it natively.

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  • coolmojo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    firefox -p was also an UI. Not as fancy as this one.

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    • calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also about:profiles if it’s already running

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• notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just add -P to Firefox launch flags. This also has been true for rlike 20 years.

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    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or just -P “profilename” to launch that profile directly from a shortcut.

      You can have as many running as you’d want.

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    • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have two separate shortcuts, I just set it so that one shortcut opens one profile and the other the other profile.

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