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I use Chrome profiles heavily, so I am very happy Firefox is exploring this feature. When doing consulting, I like to keep different client activities isolated

by mey 9y ago

I use Chrome profiles heavily, so I am very happy Firefox is exploring this feature. When doing consulting, I like to keep different client activities isolated to their own profile, so I have less things to juggle if they use the same cloud service (AWS, G Suite, Jira, etc). One limitation I currently see to that workflow (that works better for me in Chrome) is that this appears to all reside under a single Firefox Account which essentially creates master set of data to Sync. I would like to be able to setup Containers to be pegged to different Firefox Accounts (or not at all).

groovecoder 9y ago
Sounds kinda like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288858 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288858 ? Or maybe a new bug in the [META] Contextual Identity / Containers Bugs ? (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=1191418&hide_resolved=1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=11914...)
- deleted 9y ago
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Manishearth 9y ago
I mean, this is distinct from Firefox Profiles, which work pretty much exactly like Chrome profiles and sync the same way.
- mey 9y ago
  Learned something new, thanks. This doesn't look terribly user friendly https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-.. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-.... Edit: And in testing I can't have multiple profiles open at the same time.
  - poiru 9y ago
    You can also use about:profiles, which is a little nicer than the profile manager.
    - mey 9y ago
      So if this exists, why don't they do some minor adjustments to make it usable and call it good? This works rather well (except not telling you which browser is loaded with which profile)
    - mey 9y ago
      So that seems broken as well, when you click "Launch profile in new browser" it doesn't actually appear to be creating a browser tied to that profile, as I just setup my personal sync account it caused all the open browsers (across 3 profiles I setup) to all sign into that account.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    And in testing I can't have multiple profiles open at the same time. You can, it's just not easy to discover :( Edit your Firefox shortcut and add "-P --no-remote" after the command.

by mey 9y ago

groovecoder 9y ago

Sounds kinda like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288858 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288858 ? Or maybe a new bug in the [META] Contextual Identity / Containers Bugs ? (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=1191418&hide_resolved=1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=11914...)

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Manishearth 9y ago

I mean, this is distinct from Firefox Profiles, which work pretty much exactly like Chrome profiles and sync the same way.

mey 9y ago
Learned something new, thanks. This doesn't look terribly user friendly https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-.. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-.... Edit: And in testing I can't have multiple profiles open at the same time.
- poiru 9y ago
  You can also use about:profiles, which is a little nicer than the profile manager.
  - mey 9y ago
    So if this exists, why don't they do some minor adjustments to make it usable and call it good? This works rather well (except not telling you which browser is loaded with which profile)
  - mey 9y ago
    So that seems broken as well, when you click "Launch profile in new browser" it doesn't actually appear to be creating a browser tied to that profile, as I just setup my personal sync account it caused all the open browsers (across 3 profiles I setup) to all sign into that account.
- icebraining 9y ago
  And in testing I can't have multiple profiles open at the same time. You can, it's just not easy to discover :( Edit your Firefox shortcut and add "-P --no-remote" after the command.