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I tried to move from Chrome's profiles to Firefox's container tabs. I prefer Chrome's take on it where sessions are shared across all tabs in a window rather th

I tried to move from Chrome's profiles to Firefox's container tabs. I prefer Chrome's take on it where sessions are shared across all tabs in a window rather than across similarly styled tabs in the same window. .. I just went to find the github issue for other people with a similar need[0] and found someone has posted a link to an extension called sticky containers. A new tab opens in the same container of the last one. It's actually pretty close to what I'm after.. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sticky-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sticky-contai... [0] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/319 https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

bad_user 8y ago
Firefox has always had profiles, very much acting like Chrome's, but for some reason they didn't make it easy to use. Navigate to: about:profiles Now you can have multiple windows, each window with its own profile and the profile determines everything, from the browser's history to the extensions installed.
- thehenster 8y ago
  I have tried them but it wasn't simple to use multiple profiles at once, nor was it obvious which profile you were using. I felt as though Firefox was discouraging their use. Are you using them? Here is an article that talks through the steps (on windows but it's similar for others) https://www.howtogeek.com/209320/how-to-set-up-and-use-multiple-profiles-user-accounts-in-firefox/ https://www.howtogeek.com/209320/how-to-set-up-and-use-multi...
  - bad_user 8y ago
    I use profiles because I need to test stuff with different extensions. Before the Quantum release we had a pretty cool extension for managing profiles that is no longer available, sadly: https://web.archive.org/web/20181102210053/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181102210053/https://addons.mo... I hope it gets implemented again. I now do the "about:profiles" thing I mentioned. I don't know why they aren't exposing Profiles in the UI in an intuitive manner, makes no sense. For my day to day use, I think Multi-Account Containers are better though.
mderazon 8y ago
I agree. My biggest problem with it is that extensions are still global. I have two LastPass accounts. One for work and one for personal use and I cannot use both of them in Firefox That is the only reason I am not switching

bad_user 8y ago

Firefox has always had profiles, very much acting like Chrome's, but for some reason they didn't make it easy to use. Navigate to: about:profiles Now you can have multiple windows, each window with its own profile and the profile determines everything, from the browser's history to the extensions installed.

thehenster 8y ago
I have tried them but it wasn't simple to use multiple profiles at once, nor was it obvious which profile you were using. I felt as though Firefox was discouraging their use. Are you using them? Here is an article that talks through the steps (on windows but it's similar for others) https://www.howtogeek.com/209320/how-to-set-up-and-use-multiple-profiles-user-accounts-in-firefox/ https://www.howtogeek.com/209320/how-to-set-up-and-use-multi...
- bad_user 8y ago
  I use profiles because I need to test stuff with different extensions. Before the Quantum release we had a pretty cool extension for managing profiles that is no longer available, sadly: https://web.archive.org/web/20181102210053/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181102210053/https://addons.mo... I hope it gets implemented again. I now do the "about:profiles" thing I mentioned. I don't know why they aren't exposing Profiles in the UI in an intuitive manner, makes no sense. For my day to day use, I think Multi-Account Containers are better though.

mderazon 8y ago

I agree. My biggest problem with it is that extensions are still global. I have two LastPass accounts. One for work and one for personal use and I cannot use both of them in Firefox That is the only reason I am not switching