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Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

The screeshots shows functionality that the current profile/profile launch UI already has. Choose, create, ask on startup.

Right now it's hidden behind a startup parameter. But honestly, I would prefer a UI between the current one and the new one. That screenshot looks like it would reduce usability through big spacing and suboptimal alignment. At least judging by my preferences.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles?redirectslug=profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles&redirectlocale=en-US#w_start-the-profile-manager-when-firefox-is-closed

I guess adding a picture is nice. But does it have to be that huge and prominent?

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

This only works on Windows. For Macs and maybe Linux, you have to run this command to bring up a different profile:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -p

As best I can tell, there's no way to make this into a shortcut that you could just click on. This change will be good and allow me to launch them without invoking that command in terminal several times after rebooting my computer.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You've always been able to navigate to about:profiles as well

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

On Windows, I had two shortcuts--one each for a profile. It became my workflow and annoyed me when I couldn't do that on a Mac. I didn't always want my work profile to open by mistake, check into systems, etc. when I only wanted the home one, for instance.