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> What does Chrome do better? I haven't used Chrome in a long time, but this is the primary major thing I miss from it (possibly the only thing). E.g. we have

> What does Chrome do better? I haven't used Chrome in a long time, but this is the primary major thing I miss from it (possibly the only thing). E.g. we have a family computer that my spouse and I use. I have set up separate profiles for us and forced Firefox to ask which profile to use on launch. But this means that if she has the browser open and has stepped away, I can't just open a new window, switch to my profile, and do things under it. I have to fully quit the browser and restart it. If I remember correctly, with Chrome the profile was essentially tied to the logged in account and it was possible to have multiple windows open to different accounts. With Firefox you need to sign out of a Sync account before logging in to another.

sp332 7y ago
With the new(ish) Containers feature, you can have different accounts in different tabs. They are color-coded so you can tell which container each tab is in. Just long-press or right-click the New Tab button to choose which container the new tab opens under. So e.g. you could log in to Twitter in your container, open a new tab in her container, and log in to a different Twitter account there.
bzbarsky 7y ago
> I have to fully quit the browser and restart it. You can use about:profiles and click the "Launch profile in new browser" button for the relevant profile. The UI is not amazing, and I would not recommend it to a non-techie given all the noise in it, but it does work....
yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
You can just make a shortcut to run `firefox --no-remote" --profile foo`. Poor UX, but the feature works.
- cdubzzz 7y ago
  Interesting. What exactly does the `--no-remote` command do? I couldn't find any real detailed info about from a quick search. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-no-remote https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Lin...
  - tialaramex 7y ago
    By default if the browser is running, the command you run will use RPC to pass your instructions to this browser. This maybe isn't what a seasoned Unix person would expect software to do but it matches expectations from many GUI users. The --no-remote flag tells Firefox that no, you really want another Firefox.
  - sp332 7y ago
    Here's a longer explanation. https://www.brycevandyk.com/dissecting-firefoxs-no-remote-option/ https://www.brycevandyk.com/dissecting-firefoxs-no-remote-op... By default, Firefox looks for an already running instance and attaches to it, opening a new window in the existing session. --no-remote disables that connecting behavior.
velosol 7y ago
Out of curiosity, why not have another user account on the computer? Windows is pretty simple to move between user accounts as is Linux and, although I haven't use macOS recently enough to comment, it was pretty easy the last time I did. I'm sure our use cases are different but I'd like to understand yours better.
- cdubzzz 7y ago
  Ya know, this never even crossed my mind. Hah. Good point.

sp332 7y ago

With the new(ish) Containers feature, you can have different accounts in different tabs. They are color-coded so you can tell which container each tab is in. Just long-press or right-click the New Tab button to choose which container the new tab opens under. So e.g. you could log in to Twitter in your container, open a new tab in her container, and log in to a different Twitter account there.

bzbarsky 7y ago

> I have to fully quit the browser and restart it. You can use about:profiles and click the "Launch profile in new browser" button for the relevant profile. The UI is not amazing, and I would not recommend it to a non-techie given all the noise in it, but it does work....

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago

You can just make a shortcut to run `firefox --no-remote" --profile foo`. Poor UX, but the feature works.

cdubzzz 7y ago
Interesting. What exactly does the `--no-remote` command do? I couldn't find any real detailed info about from a quick search. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-no-remote https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Lin...
- tialaramex 7y ago
  By default if the browser is running, the command you run will use RPC to pass your instructions to this browser. This maybe isn't what a seasoned Unix person would expect software to do but it matches expectations from many GUI users. The --no-remote flag tells Firefox that no, you really want another Firefox.
- sp332 7y ago
  Here's a longer explanation. https://www.brycevandyk.com/dissecting-firefoxs-no-remote-option/ https://www.brycevandyk.com/dissecting-firefoxs-no-remote-op... By default, Firefox looks for an already running instance and attaches to it, opening a new window in the existing session. --no-remote disables that connecting behavior.

velosol 7y ago

Out of curiosity, why not have another user account on the computer? Windows is pretty simple to move between user accounts as is Linux and, although I haven't use macOS recently enough to comment, it was pretty easy the last time I did. I'm sure our use cases are different but I'd like to understand yours better.

cdubzzz 7y ago
Ya know, this never even crossed my mind. Hah. Good point.