Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

• ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Show of Hands:

  Who’s heard of “about:profiles”?

  🦗🦗🦗

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait till you hear about:about

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    • frmrm@peachpie.theatl.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For some reason I read that in a Canadian accent in my head.

      “aboot aboot”

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      🤯

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I use it so much I have the tab pinned

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  • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ohhh ok yeah that makes sense. Now I’m thinking about if I want to use it… hmm

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  • fitgse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just need it on mobile.

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