Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

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• n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  about:profiles always worked for me. And the profile manager. I don’t need a 3rd ui for switching profiles.

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  • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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• Dragomus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, this is to make the desktop browser profiles work more like Chrome.

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought it had had that for twenty years?

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  • notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have two separate shortcuts, I just set it so that one shortcut opens one profile and the other the other profile.

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    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just add -P to Firefox launch flags. This also has been true for rlike 20 years.

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you don’t like about:profiles?

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  • muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think they are just making a ui to manage it natively.

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    • coolmojo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      firefox -p was also an UI. Not as fancy as this one.

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• alastel@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One thing that I wonder is if I can convert my old firefox -P profiles 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.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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