Firefox Nightly now lets you create, Switch & Manage profiles like Chrome with themes, avatars to seperate work and personal browsing.
  • LittleBobbyTables@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    11 days ago

    This is excellent news. This is one of the biggest features that I’ve wanted out of Firefox for years, and one of the reasons I’ve kept Chromium as a secondary browser all this time.

    I do remember seeing a community-made GitHub project that added a profile switcher to Firefox, which looked pretty good, but it also required installing an executable somewhere on the system, which I’m not exactly keen on.

    I think Zen Browser has a built-in profile switcher, but it also changes a bunch of core UI elements… I just want Firefox with a profile switcher, lol.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    11 days ago

    At the moment, running different profiles simultaneously is not possible

    That’s the one feature I really want from Firefox profiles!

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      At the moment, running different profiles simultaneously is not possible

      Bullshit. I’ve been multiboxing Firefox for years.

      You need to run firefox.exe -p to open profile manager and then create all the profiles you want. Then create shortcuts to each new profile. firefox.exe -p ProfileName

      This allows you to run a personal profile, work profile and porn profile simultaneously without crossing streams.

      • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Under Linux you can also start a throwaway profile by running firefox -P $(mktemp -d) (note the capital P for path)

    • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
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      11 days ago

      At the moment, running different profiles simultaneously is not possible

      Bullocks. I run 2 or 3 profiles at the same time. For over 2 years now. Just easier now.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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        11 days ago

        @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone Me too. At least I used to have a separate profile for PDF viewing, which had its own plugins installed. It can be done by using commandline options to select what profile to use, like in --profile or -P (i forgot which of them I used actually). Just created a script for it (Bash script in Linux) and associated PDF files with it as if it was a separate program.

        What they mean in the article is probably its not possible with the GUI only of Firefox. They totally ignored the commandline options.

        • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev
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          10 days ago

          IIRC, -p launches a profile by path, and -P launches the GUI for selecting/creating a profile. this is wrong, -P specifies a profile path. I forgot how to open the manager.

      • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
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        11 days ago

        Hopefully it’s not an actual regression in the latest version, because that’d be terrible.

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 days ago

      It already just works, just go to about:profiles and launch as another profile. There’s also have container tabs, so no need for a separate profile when you only need isolation.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      I feel like this hasn’t been said enough: Multi-account containers are already all I need.

      • frazorth@feddit.uk
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        9 days ago

        And multi-account containers are not enough for me.

        What’s your point? They are great and serve a purpose, but they are not the same.

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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          9 days ago

          oh don’t mind me, I’m just word-for-word mindlessly parroting what others have said below

    • wallybeavis@lemmings.world
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      11 days ago

      That’s unfortunate, I was hoping for a ‘workspaces’ like feature as in Opera. I run FF and Opera simultaneaously to segregate my tabs. It would be really nice if we could get something like that extended to profiles, so I could just run FF

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 days ago

    About bloody time. Containers are fine for on the fly use - for checking what pages look like logged out, or visiting a link that you don’t want affecting algorithms etc. but for separating personal and work and whatever else, profiles are the way to go. It’s actually already pretty easy to add ‘about:profiles’ to the toolbar but the more accessible they make it, the better.

    I look forward to profiles also making it to the Android app 5 to 10 years from now.

    • lud@lemm.ee
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      10 days ago

      Because it’s integrated into the GUI similar to how pretty much every other browser does it, of course .

      • uis@lemm.ee
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        6 days ago

        Noone asks you to open terminal and edit config files in editor