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

I think they are just making a ui to manage it natively.

I tried it during covid when wfh started. I found it really annoying to switch between personal and work profiles. I prefer the chrome way of asking which profile each time I click the icon or having two separate icons.

A feature that has been present for 20 years, but never exposed in the interface. Truly magical.

Quite. It's how I've been watching YouTube ad-free for ages.

Their blog implied you would need to create a separate sync account for each profile. It'd obviously be better if you could choose which profiles are linked to which account, in addition to local only.

It was.

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.

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

The UI was clearly not user friendly.

You can create different accounts under different email addresses.

Once you're logged in, you can switch between accounts from the dropdown menu.

I've done this in the past to separate French YouTube recs from English ones.

Youtube > Profile picture > Settings > Add or manage your channel(s) > create a channel

You basically get a new "profile" with your own subs, history, profile picture, and comments and premium/channel subscriptions apply to all of them

They do have categories and I've tried to put different channels in different categories, but the thing is just so hard to use I gave up.

It's quite surprising how bad Google can be at UX.

I agree, I would love seperate "recommendation profiles" so like if I am in the mood for music, swap to music, if I want education, I can swap to that, feeling lets play? swap to gaming, horror could be creepypasta or horror games.

All under the same parent account so the premium status could apply while google would still be able to leech data off the main profile, the only difference is the curated content given is based off the profile.

edit: HOLY CRAP APPARENTLY THIS EXISTS ALREADY; you just need to make a sub channel under your parent account and the benefits share. I didn't realize recommendations were isolated with that.

Did you try to achieve this with containerized tabs?

No, this is to make the desktop browser profiles work more like Chrome.

separate settings, separate addons, separate about prefs. also for when the PC is used by more than one person but there is only one user account

It's the same as about:profiles

Just an easy way to separate people's browsing histories, cookes, bookmarks, etc I guess. And you can have them sync independently as well. For if other people want to use the same computer

It's great having a separate profile for when you tell bbc iPlayer you have a tv licence.

I love containers, but it has a pretty frustrating and unfriendly ui. If something else allowed sorting and categorizing, I think that'd be an upgrade.

Multiple accounts on the same websites with different cookies for each one.

profiles also allow different addons and addon configurations, default fonts, browser config, etc… it’s kinda like having a whole other user account or a whole other copy of the browser, rather than just cookie and storage isolation

The new one is a much better experience. It works like profiles in chrome now. The old one is still there for you to use if you prefer.

That does not looks like the same feature at all.

You can usually find recently closed windows in history.

pins are attached to the specific window. if you close the windows one by one it trashes them. use the quit function in the menu on the right, that it does not trash the windows, each of them will reopen next timealong with the pins

You can assign containers to workspaces so that you can use work stuff one workspace, gaming stuff in one and so on.