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Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 33 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 12 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

you don't like about:profiles?

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Show of Hands:

Who's heard of "about:profiles"?

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[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I use it so much I have the tab pinned

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 7 points 4 hours ago

Been using it for years.

Been using multi account containers [1] for a couple weeks, complete with per-tab-SSL vpns.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

I use them all the time, they're great. I learned about it from another random Lemmy comment

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago

I've been using it for years, too. I have it on my bookmarks bar, but this will certainly be better, I'd think.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I knew about the containers, which I’ve been using for a long time now. How is this different?

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You can have a whole other instance of Firefox with different settings, extensions, themes, logins, bookmarks, history...

It's really handy imo to have a school/work profile with relevant bookmarks, history, extensions and then have a separate personal profile for all my personal shizz. Not to mention not having my personal stuff pop up in my school/work profile to avoid embarrassing moments and not having work shit annoy me on my personal profile.

[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Profiles can have separate settings which is nice. I heavily use tab containers, but the site used for online grad school requires 3rd party cookies for any of the embedded content to work. So I have a separate school profile that has 3rd party cookies enabled.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 points 4 hours ago

I want to use it but I keep forgetting it exists. Something like this should just be accessible via button in the UI so no-one misses it

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

I don't find it or using the profile manager as convenient as what Chrome has