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As a user, I actually just want my browser to contain less features. Vendors add and add and add features. If I want different user profiles, I already have man

by hkjgkjy 10y ago

As a user, I actually just want my browser to contain less features. Vendors add and add and add features. If I want different user profiles, I already have many users on my OS - I just switch between them. When Chrome came out, I and many others switched to it just because it was lacking so many features. It was great!

nerdponx 10y ago
Having features is fine imo, as long as they can be disabled.
sp0rk 10y ago
So then use a browser whose stated goal is to be minimal. Container tabs are an amazing addition with great security and privacy benefits. If you think changing OS user profiles is comparable, you either don't fully understand the concept or you are way outside of the demographic of people that will use this.
altano 10y ago
Chrome actually already has this feature in the form of profiles. See the top-right icon.
- richardboegli 10y ago
  Yes it does and I have been using this. But it seems to be per window not tab. Unless I've missed something?
  - gtirloni 10y ago
    It's per window and it remembers the last profile used. I find it hard to manage as other apps will open links on the active window, which might be in the incorrect profile I want to use at that time. I like this new feature in Firefox. OS-level profiles being the slowest method, Chrome profiles being faster but with this annoyances (for me)... Firefox new container tabs look like a more lightweight/faster method for context separation.
  - arthurfm 10y ago
    > it seems to be per window not tab Chromium-based Ghost Browser [1] can do it per tab or tab group. It would be nice if Google implemented the same feature into Chrome since multiple profiles can be a hassle. [1] https://ghostbrowser.com https://ghostbrowser.com
    - richardboegli 10y ago
      This looks EXTREMELY interesting. Thanks for sharing.
  - Sylos 10y ago
    Yeah, this is actually distinctly different from Chrome's profiles. Firefox does already have an equivalent to Chrome's profiles [0], so it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to implement this, if it wasn't different. [0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
- hkjgkjy 10y ago
  It does, sadly!

by hkjgkjy 10y ago

nerdponx 10y ago

Having features is fine imo, as long as they can be disabled.

sp0rk 10y ago

So then use a browser whose stated goal is to be minimal. Container tabs are an amazing addition with great security and privacy benefits. If you think changing OS user profiles is comparable, you either don't fully understand the concept or you are way outside of the demographic of people that will use this.

altano 10y ago

Chrome actually already has this feature in the form of profiles. See the top-right icon.

richardboegli 10y ago
Yes it does and I have been using this. But it seems to be per window not tab. Unless I've missed something?
- gtirloni 10y ago
  It's per window and it remembers the last profile used. I find it hard to manage as other apps will open links on the active window, which might be in the incorrect profile I want to use at that time. I like this new feature in Firefox. OS-level profiles being the slowest method, Chrome profiles being faster but with this annoyances (for me)... Firefox new container tabs look like a more lightweight/faster method for context separation.
- arthurfm 10y ago
  > it seems to be per window not tab Chromium-based Ghost Browser [1] can do it per tab or tab group. It would be nice if Google implemented the same feature into Chrome since multiple profiles can be a hassle. [1] https://ghostbrowser.com https://ghostbrowser.com
  - richardboegli 10y ago
    This looks EXTREMELY interesting. Thanks for sharing.
- Sylos 10y ago
  Yeah, this is actually distinctly different from Chrome's profiles. Firefox does already have an equivalent to Chrome's profiles [0], so it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to implement this, if it wasn't different. [0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
hkjgkjy 10y ago
It does, sadly!