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Are these useful yet ? I am very excited about this feature and have tried to incorporate it into my workflow but find it very difficult. I want to open a win
by rsync 7y ago
Are these useful yet ?
I am very excited about this feature and have tried to incorporate it into my workflow but find it very difficult.
I want to open a window (not tab) as a particular profile, and then all subsequent tabs in that window are of that same profile.
This would seem to be the basic, beginning use-case from which all other use-cases would follow. I don't know why it doesn't exist ...
- baggy_trough 7y agoYes, that would be much better. That's the way Chrome personas work.
- _nedR 7y agoFirefox's equivalent of personas is profiles...
- baggy_trough 7y agoWhat is the user interface like for Firefox profiles?
- _nedR 7y agoYou can judge for yourself by typing 'firefox -P -no-remote'. Right there, having to use the terminal , has already made it more clunkier than Chromium's solution. Admittedly, Firefox profiles are clunkier to launch & manage - like a hidden feature that has rebuffed all my attempts to streamline their management, as if by design. This can be remedied by use of desktop shortcuts (You can create separate shortcuts for different profiles) but then you have to also deal with the idiosyncrasies of your Desktop Environment (Gnome in my case :/) . Once its launched its pretty much like running to separate firefox instances in your system with separate bookmarks, histories, settings, addons - like in Chrome. So it is a lot more heavier than containers as a result. Which is why i think the 2 functionalities shouldn't me unified like people in the comments seem to be asking. Similar to Threads vs processes. We need both.
- baggy_trough 7y agoCommand line - I rest my case.
- _nedR 7y agoEither way my point stands. Firefox containers aren't profiles and imo shouldn't replace them. They should make profiles more user-accessible, but both solutions should exist simultaneously. If anything, effective use of containers requires more advanced knowledge & awareness making it more suitaed for advanced users.
- freddie_mercury 7y ago> This would seem to be the basic, beginning use-case from which all other use-cases would follow. I would never ever want to do that. So, no, it is not the basic, beginning use-case. It is a worthless use case for me. You shouldn't assume that your use cases are the obvious ones.
- rsync 7y agoHow do you open new, specific, container tabs with a keystroke then ? As far as I can tell, the only way to open a specific container tab is to mousey-mouse-mouse to: File > New Container Tab > Blah Of course that use-case should be preserved, but it's woefully inefficient ... if you have a profile you do a lot of things under, you'd create a window and then (keystroke) (CMD)-t to get a new tab ...
- Vinnl 7y agoIt's not super-efficient, but it is keyboard accessible: press Ctrl+. to open the Container selection menu, then the down arrow to the Container you want, and Enter to open a new tab in that Container.
- freddie_mercury 7y agoWhy would I want to do that? I type in a URL and Firefox knows which container to open it in already. I've been using Firefox with containers since it came out and I've never wanted to do that.