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Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It depends on how much separation you need. If you want different bookmarks, history, or settings per, then I believe you need profiles to make that happen.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You can use containers all you want, just don't create another profile and you're golden.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This is what I do now, just trying to figure out why ff keeps spending time on profiles. Do they have any advantages over containers?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    For highly technical users containers are going to do everything we need.

    For non technical users who need separation, profiles are a standard known framework.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    My non technical spouse prefers profile to separate work and personal. She uses different themes for each profile so it is very obvious which is which.

    Also one of the extensions she likes interferes with a work site she is required to use. She has that extension installed in the personal profile but not work profile.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Different set of cookies, different set of preferences, bookmarks, history, etc. If you need to completely separate two instances, for example one for work and one for everything else, you can only do it with profiles

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    containers are for general browsing; profiles are for the whole browser

    profiles allow you to have different addons installed, different configurations between addons in different profiles, different browser settings (eg a SOCKS proxy for work profile, or a different default search engine, default fonts, etc… or for technical users you can have a profile with experimental settings turned on)

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