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One thing that stops me switching from Chrome is the multiple profiles and easy profile switching in Chrome. I have work and personal profiles and then other pr

One thing that stops me switching from Chrome is the multiple profiles and easy profile switching in Chrome. I have work and personal profiles and then other profiles for different roles I use in testing web applications. Last time I checked it wasn't at all convenient to do this in Firefox.

kuschku 9y ago
Actually, you can on Firefox even use different profiles per tab since a few releases ago.
- Myrmornis 9y ago
  This documentation still makes it sound very clunky and inconvenient compared to chrome: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiple_profiles https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiple_profile... > You cannot change the profile while Firefox is running. Although it is possible in some cases to have multiple instances of Firefox running in different profiles, to avoid confusion, you should first exit/quit/terminate all running instances of Firefox, FirefoxDeveloperEdition or Nightly. > firefox --ProfileManager
  - kuschku 9y ago
    That’s a different thing than I’m describing. Try out the new ContainerTabs ;)
    - Myrmornis 9y ago
      Cool! I think. For the record: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers-experiment https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers-experiment Do you know if it's possible to make ctrl-t (new tab) open a new tab in the same profile? If I'm in profile A, I always want new tabs to have the same profile; I don't want to have to specify it.
      - Vinnl 9y ago
        I think there's a bugreport where about half of users want it to open in the default container, and half in the same :P Ctrl+. as a shortcut allows you to pick a profile for a new tab, though, that might do for now.
        Myrmornis 9y ago
        Would you mind expanding on that? I'm on MacOS and neither Cmd-. nor Ctrl-. seem to be bound in Firefox 57.b03. Is there a way to list all keybindings that are in effect? Cmd-click on a link does work for me as a way to open a new tab in the same container, which is a possible workaround. Otherwise this is making containers very hard to use for me. EDIT: Cmd-click on the "New Tab" + icon does open a new tab in the same container.
        Vinnl 9y ago
        Do you have the Containers extension installed as well, and the toolbar button enabled? That's what it's bound to. I don't know of a way to list all keybindings. (Also, I didn't know about Cmd/Ctrl-Click. Nice!)
Vinnl 9y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
- Myrmornis 9y ago
  Thanks, not compatible with the new firefox beta, but thanks.
  - Vinnl 9y ago
    It says at the top: > Note: Firefox 57+58 users should Install from our latest GitHub Release [1] [1] https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/dc0c83a8fa9601d8fa71a4560a1055ad954f070fc607b05d7db2f36474856676/https%3A//github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/releases/latest https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/dc0c83a8fa9601d8fa71a456...

kuschku 9y ago

Actually, you can on Firefox even use different profiles per tab since a few releases ago.

Myrmornis 9y ago
This documentation still makes it sound very clunky and inconvenient compared to chrome: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiple_profiles https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiple_profile... > You cannot change the profile while Firefox is running. Although it is possible in some cases to have multiple instances of Firefox running in different profiles, to avoid confusion, you should first exit/quit/terminate all running instances of Firefox, FirefoxDeveloperEdition or Nightly. > firefox --ProfileManager
- kuschku 9y ago
  That’s a different thing than I’m describing. Try out the new ContainerTabs ;)
  - Myrmornis 9y ago
    Cool! I think. For the record: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers-experiment https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers-experiment Do you know if it's possible to make ctrl-t (new tab) open a new tab in the same profile? If I'm in profile A, I always want new tabs to have the same profile; I don't want to have to specify it.
    - Vinnl 9y ago
      I think there's a bugreport where about half of users want it to open in the default container, and half in the same :P Ctrl+. as a shortcut allows you to pick a profile for a new tab, though, that might do for now.
      - Myrmornis 9y ago
        Would you mind expanding on that? I'm on MacOS and neither Cmd-. nor Ctrl-. seem to be bound in Firefox 57.b03. Is there a way to list all keybindings that are in effect? Cmd-click on a link does work for me as a way to open a new tab in the same container, which is a possible workaround. Otherwise this is making containers very hard to use for me. EDIT: Cmd-click on the "New Tab" + icon does open a new tab in the same container.
        Vinnl 9y ago
        Do you have the Containers extension installed as well, and the toolbar button enabled? That's what it's bound to. I don't know of a way to list all keybindings. (Also, I didn't know about Cmd/Ctrl-Click. Nice!)

Vinnl 9y ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Myrmornis 9y ago
Thanks, not compatible with the new firefox beta, but thanks.
- Vinnl 9y ago
  It says at the top: > Note: Firefox 57+58 users should Install from our latest GitHub Release [1] [1] https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/dc0c83a8fa9601d8fa71a4560a1055ad954f070fc607b05d7db2f36474856676/https%3A//github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/releases/latest https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/dc0c83a8fa9601d8fa71a456...