Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

• daq@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is what I do now, just trying to figure out why ff keeps spending time on profiles. Do they hadn’t any advantages over containers?

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  • SuperUserDO@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For highly technical users containers are going to do everything we need.

    For non technical users who need separation, profiles are a standard known framework.

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    • fitgse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My non technical spouse prefers profile to separate work and personal. She uses different themes for each profile so it is very obvious which is which.

      Also one of the extensions she likes interferes with a work site she is required to use. She has that extension installed in the personal profile but not work profile.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    because for people who are not you it’s useful

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Different set of cookies, different set of preferences, bookmarks, history, etc. If you need to completely separate two instances, for example one for work and one for everything else, you can only do it with profiles

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