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Firefox does have support for multiple profiles. You just to need to set it up. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firef

by anfilt 7y ago

Firefox does have support for multiple profiles. You just to need to set it up. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... Also if you want to prompt what profile to use every time you use firefox just add -P like this "firefox.exe -P" in your shortcut/softlink or script that starts firefox.

m0zg 7y ago
It just doesn't have usable profile switching. Sounds like something a competent engineer should be able to implement in a week, yet users have been begging for it for a decade and it's still not there. This is the only thing that holds me on Chrome.
- glandium 7y ago
  try about:profiles
  - dhimes 7y ago
    I think his point is that if you have to do about:profiles, then that's not usable for a lot of people. Having something that works like containers is a lot more usable: click, select profile.
    - glandium 7y ago
      My point is that about:profiles improves upon -P. But cf. their other post, they're actually after containers, not profiles.
  - m0zg 7y ago
    See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Whereas in Chrome I _don't have to_ "try about:profiles". The very basic requirement for me is this: I want to completely separate my "work" internet from my "personal" internet, yet I also want to be able to easily switch between the two. Firefox makes this unnecessarily difficult and un-ergonomic.
    - matsemann 7y ago
      Containers in Fx makes this super-easy, try it out.
      - m0zg 7y ago
        They do not allow for complete separation of "work" and "personal" internet. They literally show both in the same window.
        matsemann 7y ago
        I consider that a feature. Nothing stops you from only using a single and different container per window, though.
        m0zg 7y ago
        I consider that an epic fail. The last thing I want is to confuse the two, or to have to laboriously manually separate tabs into windows. That's not to mention that I also don't want to share the passwords between the two profiles either. What's the most frustrating is Firefox already has multiple profile support. All it's missing is an ergonomic way to switch and manage the profiles.
        kaolabear 7y ago
        You can have two desktop shortcuts with different icons that start the browser with different profiles. With different profiles you can make the browser windows have very different customized looks and differnt profiles also have separate password storages.
        m0zg 7y ago
        Or I could just, you know, continue using Chrome.

by anfilt 7y ago

m0zg 7y ago

It just doesn't have usable profile switching. Sounds like something a competent engineer should be able to implement in a week, yet users have been begging for it for a decade and it's still not there. This is the only thing that holds me on Chrome.

glandium 7y ago
try about:profiles
- dhimes 7y ago
  I think his point is that if you have to do about:profiles, then that's not usable for a lot of people. Having something that works like containers is a lot more usable: click, select profile.
  - glandium 7y ago
    My point is that about:profiles improves upon -P. But cf. their other post, they're actually after containers, not profiles.
- m0zg 7y ago
  See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Whereas in Chrome I _don't have to_ "try about:profiles". The very basic requirement for me is this: I want to completely separate my "work" internet from my "personal" internet, yet I also want to be able to easily switch between the two. Firefox makes this unnecessarily difficult and un-ergonomic.
  - matsemann 7y ago
    Containers in Fx makes this super-easy, try it out.
    - m0zg 7y ago
      They do not allow for complete separation of "work" and "personal" internet. They literally show both in the same window.
      - matsemann 7y ago
        I consider that a feature. Nothing stops you from only using a single and different container per window, though.
        m0zg 7y ago
        I consider that an epic fail. The last thing I want is to confuse the two, or to have to laboriously manually separate tabs into windows. That's not to mention that I also don't want to share the passwords between the two profiles either. What's the most frustrating is Firefox already has multiple profile support. All it's missing is an ergonomic way to switch and manage the profiles.
        kaolabear 7y ago
        You can have two desktop shortcuts with different icons that start the browser with different profiles. With different profiles you can make the browser windows have very different customized looks and differnt profiles also have separate password storages.
        m0zg 7y ago
        Or I could just, you know, continue using Chrome.