I thought it had had that for twenty years?
Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions
Submitted 5 hours ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/795998/mozilla-firefox-browser-profiles-separate-tabs
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Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 hours ago
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 hours 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
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 4 hours ago
I think they are just making a ui to manage it natively.
coolmojo@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
firefox -p was also an UI. Not as fancy as this one.
notarobot@lemmy.zip 2 hours 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.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Just add -P to Firefox launch flags. This also has been true for rlike 20 years.
daq@lemmy.sdf.org 1 hour ago
I think containers (that Firefox already has) are a much better way to handle this. Profiles, art least the way they are implemented on chrome, feels like a massive downgrade.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 45 minutes ago
You can use containers all you want, just don’t create another profile and you’re golden.
daq@lemmy.sdf.org 40 minutes 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?
n3cr0@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
about:profiles always worked for me. And the profile manager. I don’t need a 3rd ui for switching profiles.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The new one is a much better experience. It works like profiles in chrome now. The old one is still there for you to use if you prefer.
Hawke@lemmy.world 11 minutes ago
Is it gonna pop up obnoxiously every time you start the program?
Is it gonna demand that I create a new profile every time I sign in to Google?
Dragomus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Uhm … is this perhaps for the android browser then?
The desktop browser has had this for a long long time, though in recent builds a bit hidden. I still use various profiles, very handy.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
No, this is to make the desktop browser profiles work more like Chrome.
froh42@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yay, a 25 year old feature with a new UI design.
I’m using FF as my daily driver, but I feel. my hatred for Mozilla soon reaches the level of my hatred for Google.
I do wonder (just in my head, there’s no hint to that in the public) if all that money Google pays to Mozilla somewhere has a no-competition clause which says FF must stay more shitty than Chrome.
I’m not consciously of one Innovation out of Mozilla that made FF a better browser, and a lot of interesting stuff has been canceled.
It’s still an OK browser, but it is like it was 15 years ago. While I watch colleagues using chrome reskins which have great tab management (amazing when you use Jira). Only now that we have LLMs people turn browsers into agents - why the fuck is there no cross - request scripting (go to google, search for this, click on 2nd result…). Yeah we have developer tools like puppeteer for that, but having - say python or js to do so would make people use it more frequently.
Browser history. Ah damn, a day ago I saw a page that explained how to do xx with yy while considering zz. How great some decent browse history would be. (And yes, FF, keep it all, but only when I’m at weirdkinkyporn.com, please just store it for a few hours)
Yeah, so much more things you could do (and the above ideas are just half - baked thoughts).
But Mozilla needa tha sweeet CEO payments. There’s no money for experimental stuff.
About a month ago, I ranted about that with a few friends, afterwards I rage-contributed to the Servo project.
I just wish Google would cut off that Mozilla money, I really believe that would improve competition.
That no-compete agreement is a product of my imagination, but things really feel like that.
Fuck Mozilla.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I wish there was a feature like this on YouTube. I’d love a profile for watching educational videos, a profile for feeding me cool videos when I’m high, and a profile for when my kids want to watch stuff. I’m tired of vibing and listening to music videos only to get hit with Disney songs.
It’s insane that they have an incognito mode that still serves up ads even though I have premium.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Youtube > Profile picture > Settings > Add or manage your channel(s) > create a channel
You basically get a new “profile” with your own subs, history, profile picture, and comments
SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
You can create different accounts under different email addresses.
Once you’re logged in, you can switch between accounts from the dropdown menu.
I’ve done this in the past to separate French YouTube recs from English ones.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I did this as well but the other accounts get ads because the premium only applies to my first account. Terrible user experience and Google go hand in hand
echodot@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
They do have categories and I’ve tried to put different channels in different categories, but the thing is just so hard to use I gave up.
It’s quite surprising how bad Google can be at UX.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
It really is insane how a company can be so massive yet unable to do basic UI. I got a notification that someone replied to a YouTube comment I made so I clicked the notification and it opened up YouTube’s landing page. I tried to find notifications and couldn’t so instead I tried to find a page that has my comment history.
I had to look it up and apparently you can’t even find it on YouTube, you have to go to a separate website, my activity.google.com.
alastel@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
One thing that I wonder is if I can convert my old
firefox -Pprofiles into this new kind of profiles, and have them all be synced by firefox with a single account instead of recreating them on all my devices. On the filesystem they seem to be the same, just not in the same place.WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Their blog implied you would need to create a separate sync account for each profile. It’d obviously be better if you could choose which profiles are linked to which account, in addition to local only.
fascicle@leminal.space 2 hours ago
Finally! That was my biggest gripe when I switched from chrome but I ended up just getting rid of all my profiles, time to set up my old workflows again
mrdown@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Vivaldi has it for years
echodot@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
Alright for when buying a ring for my wife. Yes they’ve had that for ages it’s called incognito mode or whatever the equivalent name for it is on Firefox. But it definitely has that mode already.
moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 53 minutes ago
I already use profiles in Firefox but this looks a much better interface for managing them.