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Firefox has had multiple profiles for years too, though the UI isn't as nice as Chrome's. This is different, this is basically profiles that can sharethe same b
by Manishearth 10y ago
Firefox has had multiple profiles for years too, though the UI isn't as nice as Chrome's. This is different, this is basically profiles that can sharethe same browser window.
- cbsmith 10y agoI'm not sure I understand the benefit of being able to share the same browser window.
- Manishearth 10y agoI personally like keeping things in a single browser window, and find it super annoying when I have multiple windows. But I sometimes want to use a site whilst logged out or logged in to a different account, or just don't want to be tracked. across the web. It's nice to be able to do it all in one place. It also helps enforce a better discipline in keeping parts of your life (and thus your online identity) separate so that it's harder to track.
- cbsmith 10y agoMultiple windows sure seems like a clean visual signal that you are in a different privacy context...
- Touche 10y agoNot as nice is a pretty big understatement. Here's the article that Mozilla links to about how to do it on OSX: http://spf13.com/post/managing-multiple-firefox-profiles-in-os-x/ http://spf13.com/post/managing-multiple-firefox-profiles-in-... /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --profilemanager
- kuschku 10y agoActually, just open about:profiles in the browser, and you can easily switch.