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Multiple and fully isolated user profiles - hugely important for the work I do. I know Firefox has containers, but they're not really feature complete compared
by teh_klev 7y ago
Multiple and fully isolated user profiles - hugely important for the work I do. I know Firefox has containers, but they're not really feature complete compared to Chrome's, and the UI experience leaves a lot to be desired, there's just to many friction points.
edit: forgot to also mention, I'm also aware FF has profiles as well (about:profiles) but the implementation has too many speedbumps. As I mentioned in another post on HN, the profile manager needs to be an upfront and first class UI citizen, something hidden away with a fairly poor UIX.
- duiker101 7y agoVivaldi also has profiles, added recently! (Uses Chromium)
- teh_klev 7y agoThanks, I'll take it for a drive. My big concern about third party browsers built on Chromium is knowing if they're up-to-date with their security fixes. Also there's that lack of openness about all the stuff they're building on top of Chromium, which is maybe a bit rich seeing as I rely on Chrome :).
- mrighele 7y agoFirefox has profiles too, although they are probably even even harder to use than containers.
- teh_klev 7y agoYeah, I forgot to add to my comment something about their Profile implementation which feels like another half baked idea.
- im3w1l 7y agoYou can also start firefox with a -p flag to get a profile selector on startup.
- skykooler 7y agoThey're a pain to use though since you need to pass that on the command line.