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The most straightforward solution is to create a separate Chrome user/profile for your work account. It's a great way to keep your private and organizational ac

by blfr 8y ago

The most straightforward solution is to create a separate Chrome user/profile for your work account. It's a great way to keep your private and organizational accounts completely separate. You can even sync all Chrome settings, extensions, and bookmars though the company account if they allow you to use your own devices. Unlike Firefox (major pain point btw), you can run Chrome with multiple profiles at once, each in a separate window.

Androider 8y ago
But my workflow! https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ That's a good suggestion, but I just don't need or want to maintain two sets of bookmarks, install each plugin twice, configure each setting in two places, etc. But I guess I'll have to... sigh.
- omaranto 8y ago
  You could use the work profile you create exclusively for gmail and analytics, etc. That is, you could leave that profile pretty plain, not mainting bookmarks and plugins for it.
  - exolymph 8y ago
    This is what I'm currently doing as a workaround, and it's still annoying.
Hello71 8y ago
Firefox has had profiles since at least 0.8, released in 2004, when it was renamed from Firebird, more than four and a half years prior to Google Chrome's release. This code, however, was inherited from Netscape Communicator 4, released more than a decade before Google Chrome. Hell, Netscape 4 predates Google! However, since the profile code is so old, it is not accessible from the main interface; it must be accessed via a command line flag. Chrome learned from this mistake and exposed it in the graphical interface. It is utterly false however to say that Firefox does not support profiles.
- hdima 8y ago
  Firefox also has Multi-Account Containers add-on which is much more lightweight than profiles: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
  - Hello71 8y ago
    Ah, yes, I forgot to mention that. This is basically Firefox learning from Chrome's mistakes after 10 years, just as Chrome learned from Netscape's mistakes. Chrome added in-browser support to profiles, then Firefox added preference and add-on sharing.
    - Flimm 8y ago
      I don't quite understand your comment. I think you are assuming that Firefox's containers are like Chrome's profiles, but they're not.
- qu4z-2 8y ago
  I just wanted to add that I regularly run many different Firefox profiles in parallel, and it definitely supports that feature. Granted the UI could use some work, but if you make a shortcut that brings up the profile selector it works pretty OK.
kerng 8y ago
Firefox is most straight forward answer!

by blfr 8y ago

Androider 8y ago

But my workflow! https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ That's a good suggestion, but I just don't need or want to maintain two sets of bookmarks, install each plugin twice, configure each setting in two places, etc. But I guess I'll have to... sigh.

omaranto 8y ago
You could use the work profile you create exclusively for gmail and analytics, etc. That is, you could leave that profile pretty plain, not mainting bookmarks and plugins for it.
- exolymph 8y ago
  This is what I'm currently doing as a workaround, and it's still annoying.

Hello71 8y ago

Firefox has had profiles since at least 0.8, released in 2004, when it was renamed from Firebird, more than four and a half years prior to Google Chrome's release. This code, however, was inherited from Netscape Communicator 4, released more than a decade before Google Chrome. Hell, Netscape 4 predates Google! However, since the profile code is so old, it is not accessible from the main interface; it must be accessed via a command line flag. Chrome learned from this mistake and exposed it in the graphical interface. It is utterly false however to say that Firefox does not support profiles.

hdima 8y ago
Firefox also has Multi-Account Containers add-on which is much more lightweight than profiles: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
- Hello71 8y ago
  Ah, yes, I forgot to mention that. This is basically Firefox learning from Chrome's mistakes after 10 years, just as Chrome learned from Netscape's mistakes. Chrome added in-browser support to profiles, then Firefox added preference and add-on sharing.
  - Flimm 8y ago
    I don't quite understand your comment. I think you are assuming that Firefox's containers are like Chrome's profiles, but they're not.
qu4z-2 8y ago
I just wanted to add that I regularly run many different Firefox profiles in parallel, and it definitely supports that feature. Granted the UI could use some work, but if you make a shortcut that brings up the profile selector it works pretty OK.

kerng 8y ago

Firefox is most straight forward answer!