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TIL Firefox has first class profiles... finally! (hackertalks.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/interesting@hackertalks.com
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i just found out that firefox finally made profiles easy to use - a first class feature like chrome.

I found out from this techlore video https://youtu.be/dwFSytu_JUw

and even better then chrome, in macos dock bar, each active profile has its own icon

Chrome has had profiles for a long long time, easy to segment accounts/jobs for better isolation (extensions, etc).

Firefox has always had profiles hidden, they were just a super pain in the butt to the point where it wasn't really usable.

Better isolation is great!

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[–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Just to clarify, what do you mean by "hidden"? It’s been having the options -P, -ProfileManager , -profile for decades now.

If you cannot disable extensions, you must create a new profile before upgrading to Firefox 0.8.
Source [2013-12-06]

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The following examples show the use of the -ProfileManager command, which will open the profile manager prior to starting Firefox...
Bypass profile manager and launch application with the profile named profile_name. Useful for dealing with multiple profiles.
firefox -P "Joel User" Source

And same for Thunderbird <3

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Just to clarify, what do you mean by “hidden”? It’s been having the options -P, -ProfileManager , -profile for decades now.

    Yeah, that is a pain in the butt - you wouldn't use that in a normal workflow. Plus you couldn't tell which window was in which profile! you needed a extension to give the windows labels, but they still got mixed in the taskmanager/dock etc.. it wasn't really usable in normal multiprofile concurrent workflows. As proof, your example firefox profile manager is empty!

    As a motivational example right now I have 25 profiles, for 25 services I use, and i swap between them all the time.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Thank you for the response! Am sorry, but proof for what?
    The profile selector is empty because I used a temporary Kubuntu environment at https://distrosea.com/ for the screenshot, since I am currently on-the-go.

    Holy smokes! 25 profiles! That's a profile for almost all possible 25 identities for the whole month of a spy job!

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