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I still think multiple profiles are a better choice. My main profile never keeps cookies and have a very rigid https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js https://gith

I still think multiple profiles are a better choice. My main profile never keeps cookies and have a very rigid https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js file and only a couple of extensions. I'm very scared about extensions and self-updating scripts so I only keep them isolated. It also helps with organization since I have different bookmarks. I can also "firewall" that profile to never accidentally load websites I don't want to. If needed you can drag windows/tabs between profiles or even other browsers. I disabled all the referral options too.

throwaway613834 9y ago
Multiple profiles are such a pain. You don't even get the common history and autocomplete that comes with having a single profile. I've used them for a while with Chrome and they're just too annoying to use. This looks like it could turn out really great. EDIT: It seems I was unclear in what I was trying to say. I wasn't criticizing multiple profiles in general; I was criticizing using multiple profiles as a replacement for containers. The way I see it, they don't substitute for each other, and they both have their own great use cases.
- JetSpiegel 9y ago
  > You don't even get the common history and autocomplete That's a feature! I have observed dozens of time coworkers using their BYOD work laptpos that autocompleted porn URL. Dozens.
  - JohnBooty 9y ago
    You've got to use an entirely separate browser for that IMO. Even with Chrome's totally segregated user profiles, it's too easy to pull up a NSFW URL in the wrong Chrome window and have it pollute your "work" profile. I use FF for work and a special Chrome profile (not the default one) for anything that shouldn't pop up in my autocomplete in front of coworkers/clients. That way it's pretty hard to screw up...
  - fish_fan 9y ago
    Frankly you shouldn’t ever look at porn on a work machine, no matter how much they encourage you to think of it as your personal machine. It is only a liability.
- tomjakubowski 9y ago
  Chrome profiles are an absolute joy for splitting between personal/work activities. They also work better for, say, switching between Google accounts than the "inline" Google account switcher, which is often buggy and at least used to have incomplete support (does the Analytics dashboard finally support the account switcher?).
  - throwaway613834 9y ago
    I agree, they're fantastic for their use cases. I'm trying to say this is not one of them, and trying to use them as container replacements results in an awful and painful experience. That's all.
  - fish_fan 9y ago
    To my understanding, firefox also has support for multiple profiles at that level, but it may be by app launch, not by window.
    - Vinnl 9y ago
      It can be per-window: in about:profiles there's a "Launch profile in new browser" button underneath every profile.
- adrianratnapala 9y ago
  Hmm, I find it odd that you want cross-noise in your autocompletes. I use the things for doing personal browsing on work machines and find them very convenient. But on Firefox it seems totally unusable because of near misses in UI. I haven't found a nice menu for switching between profiles, or a way of getting a list of available profiles short of rooting about in my settings. The default profile is can change itself in strange, and will only sometime coincide with the profile called "default".
  - throwaway613834 9y ago
    I think you misunderstood what I said (might have been since I wasn't too clear on this in my comment). I wasn't criticizing the profile feature itself. Profiles are fantastic for your use case. I was criticizing using profiles for THIS use case (i.e. substituting for containers). They simply don't substitute for the container feature; they solve different problems. One is for separation of concerns and one is for privacy/security. The two sometimes affect each other but they're not the same concerns.
  - asfdsfggtfd 9y ago
    The thing you are looking for is about:profiles

throwaway613834 9y ago

Multiple profiles are such a pain. You don't even get the common history and autocomplete that comes with having a single profile. I've used them for a while with Chrome and they're just too annoying to use. This looks like it could turn out really great. EDIT: It seems I was unclear in what I was trying to say. I wasn't criticizing multiple profiles in general; I was criticizing using multiple profiles as a replacement for containers. The way I see it, they don't substitute for each other, and they both have their own great use cases.

JetSpiegel 9y ago
> You don't even get the common history and autocomplete That's a feature! I have observed dozens of time coworkers using their BYOD work laptpos that autocompleted porn URL. Dozens.
- JohnBooty 9y ago
  You've got to use an entirely separate browser for that IMO. Even with Chrome's totally segregated user profiles, it's too easy to pull up a NSFW URL in the wrong Chrome window and have it pollute your "work" profile. I use FF for work and a special Chrome profile (not the default one) for anything that shouldn't pop up in my autocomplete in front of coworkers/clients. That way it's pretty hard to screw up...
- fish_fan 9y ago
  Frankly you shouldn’t ever look at porn on a work machine, no matter how much they encourage you to think of it as your personal machine. It is only a liability.
tomjakubowski 9y ago
Chrome profiles are an absolute joy for splitting between personal/work activities. They also work better for, say, switching between Google accounts than the "inline" Google account switcher, which is often buggy and at least used to have incomplete support (does the Analytics dashboard finally support the account switcher?).
- throwaway613834 9y ago
  I agree, they're fantastic for their use cases. I'm trying to say this is not one of them, and trying to use them as container replacements results in an awful and painful experience. That's all.
- fish_fan 9y ago
  To my understanding, firefox also has support for multiple profiles at that level, but it may be by app launch, not by window.
  - Vinnl 9y ago
    It can be per-window: in about:profiles there's a "Launch profile in new browser" button underneath every profile.
adrianratnapala 9y ago
Hmm, I find it odd that you want cross-noise in your autocompletes. I use the things for doing personal browsing on work machines and find them very convenient. But on Firefox it seems totally unusable because of near misses in UI. I haven't found a nice menu for switching between profiles, or a way of getting a list of available profiles short of rooting about in my settings. The default profile is can change itself in strange, and will only sometime coincide with the profile called "default".
- throwaway613834 9y ago
  I think you misunderstood what I said (might have been since I wasn't too clear on this in my comment). I wasn't criticizing the profile feature itself. Profiles are fantastic for your use case. I was criticizing using profiles for THIS use case (i.e. substituting for containers). They simply don't substitute for the container feature; they solve different problems. One is for separation of concerns and one is for privacy/security. The two sometimes affect each other but they're not the same concerns.
- asfdsfggtfd 9y ago
  The thing you are looking for is about:profiles