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If someone from Mozilla is reading this: I (and I suspect many other people who prefer to strictly segregate their “work” and “personal” data), would very much
by 0xbear 9y ago
If someone from Mozilla is reading this: I (and I suspect many other people who prefer to strictly segregate their “work” and “personal” data), would very much prefer if you implemented built-in profile switching a-la Chrome. This shouldn’t even be that hard given that FF already supports profiles. This is, and has always been, an obstacle for me to seriously consider Firefox as my only browser.
- jedahan 9y agoYou might be interested in Firefox Multi-Account Containers[1], an addon by Mozilla, announced in https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot/firefox-containers-are-go-ed2e3533b6e3 https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot/firefox-containers-are... [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
- 0xbear 9y agoI know about those, but they are almost the opposite of what I want to have: instead of completely separating the two worlds, they forcibly merge them in the same browser instance (and Sync account).
- callahad 9y agoThe UI isn't as pretty, but Firefox does support fully separated profiles. More info at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... You can also use command line flags to do the same. For example, you can run `firefox --profile $(mktemp -d) --new-instance` to create a temporary, throwaway profile. (Change --new-instance to --no-remote on Windows).
- bzbarsky 9y agoThe about:profiles UI is not very polished, but it does exist.