Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

• mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What do profiles do that I can’t do with multi account containers?

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  • dastanktal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I can let my kids play on my computer without them screwing up my personal browser history or getting into any of my accounts without having to teach them how to use yet another extension.

    Vivaldi has a great example of profile management where I can literally create a desktop shortcut for each person that uses my computer, complete with their name, and it’s their own separate internet profile.

    Yes, I’m aware I could solve this problem by using multiple user profiles on my computer, but the overhead and the amount of management would also be a massive headache. It is just far easier to do this.

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    • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Fair, I mostly use my PC alone, so there’s no need for separate profiles. Having multi-account containers is a godsend for me. It isolates session data between tabs allowing me to have as many browser sessions as I need in a single browser window.

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      • dastanktal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Oh, I do the same thing, I use the same extension that you do, it just doesn’t fit my use case for multiple profile management.

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