Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  separate settings, separate addons, separate about prefs. also for when the PC is used by more than one person but there is only one user account

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  • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok this is handy ngl. I’ve forgotten about the shared family compute scenario

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• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s the same as about:profiles

  Just an easy way to separate people’s browsing histories, cookes, bookmarks, etc I guess. And you can have them sync independently as well. For if other people want to use the same computer

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  • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That makes sense. The bookmarks and settings kinda made everything fit better in my head, thanks!

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• some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s great having a separate profile for when you tell bbc iPlayer you have a tv license.

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  • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But can’t containers do that? Maybe I’m missing something?

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• ech@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love containers, but it has a pretty frustrating and unfriendly ui. If something else allowed sorting and categorizing, I think that’d be an upgrade.

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  • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fair, I just always felt containers were better than profiles, cause each tab is a profile now. The tooling does need improvement, I still get lost when trying to access some configs for it

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• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Multiple accounts on the same websites with different cookies for each one.

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what containers do.

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