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You're right, but for a counter-point versus Chromium, multi-account containers are worse for security compared with profiles… This matters when you can't 100%

You're right, but for a counter-point versus Chromium, multi-account containers are worse for security compared with profiles… This matters when you can't 100% trust your browser session, or the installed extensions. Did you ever load https://my.1password.com https://my.1password.com in your browser? How do you feel about it? Do you trust your installed extensions to not take a peak? I don't. Chrome solves this elegantly via profiles. Even more, you can install websites as “apps”, with a shortcut that gets indexed by the OS, and Chrome remembers the profile. I simply type “1Password Online” or “Banking” and my Chromium opens a new window in my “Private” profile that has no extensions installed. Firefox dropped the ball on both PWA shortcuts, and on profiles. Even for using multiple accounts, I feel like Chromium profiles are a better solution. For example, my workplace has very strict security requirements, and when looking at company documents it's not cool to provide access to extensions like LanguageTool or Grammarly. I'd be in trouble. And Chromium always had finer grained permissions for extensions, like activating or deactivating them per website.

II2II 4y ago
Wouldn't Firefox's profiles accomplish the same thing? (Yes, I understand they are difficult to access but they are still there.) That said, containers are a handy tool for people who want to access multiple accounts without the trouble of setting up individual profiles. Keep in mind, if you're only trying to access a personal and work Google account you probably don't want to spend time setting up a separate profile for each then keeping the settings synchronized.
- alexelcu 4y ago
  Yes, but Firefox's profiles are very hard to use (apart from keeping multiple Firefox channels installed, e.g., stable, beta), I tried, and I couldn't. Starting a profile is difficult, and also switching between windows, since the OS sees profiles as different apps. It's probably not hard to fix, but Mozilla has had other priorities.
  - godshatter 4y ago
    Just open about:profiles. You can create new ones, remove old ones, set which one is the default and can open them in a new browser. I use this all the time to open a browser as a new SSO functional user without having to log out. I don't know why they don't add this somewhere in the menus and I don't know why you can't bookmark about:profiles, but this works well for me as it is.
    - WorldMaker 4y ago
      The -ProfileManager command line flag opens it up as a startup window.
  - commoner 4y ago
    Try Profile Switcher for Firefox, which provides a Chrome-like interface for managing and switching between profiles in Firefox. Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switcher/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc... Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher
    - r1cka 4y ago
      My problem is opening links from apps. Sometimes I want a link in Slack (or other desktop apps) to open in my personal profile and sometimes I want it to use my work profile. With Brave/Chrome, the link will open in whatever profile window is active. I can't find a way to make this work with Firefox.
      - commoner 4y ago
        Have you tried making a different desktop entry/shortcut for each Firefox profile and then setting a browser picker as your default browser? - Junction (Linux browser picker): https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction - Finicky (macOS browser rule setter): https://github.com/johnste/finicky https://github.com/johnste/finicky and Browserosaurus (macOS browser picker): https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus - Hurl (Windows browser picker): https://github.com/U-C-S/Hurl https://github.com/U-C-S/Hurl

II2II 4y ago

Wouldn't Firefox's profiles accomplish the same thing? (Yes, I understand they are difficult to access but they are still there.) That said, containers are a handy tool for people who want to access multiple accounts without the trouble of setting up individual profiles. Keep in mind, if you're only trying to access a personal and work Google account you probably don't want to spend time setting up a separate profile for each then keeping the settings synchronized.

alexelcu 4y ago
Yes, but Firefox's profiles are very hard to use (apart from keeping multiple Firefox channels installed, e.g., stable, beta), I tried, and I couldn't. Starting a profile is difficult, and also switching between windows, since the OS sees profiles as different apps. It's probably not hard to fix, but Mozilla has had other priorities.
- godshatter 4y ago
  Just open about:profiles. You can create new ones, remove old ones, set which one is the default and can open them in a new browser. I use this all the time to open a browser as a new SSO functional user without having to log out. I don't know why they don't add this somewhere in the menus and I don't know why you can't bookmark about:profiles, but this works well for me as it is.
  - WorldMaker 4y ago
    The -ProfileManager command line flag opens it up as a startup window.
- commoner 4y ago
  Try Profile Switcher for Firefox, which provides a Chrome-like interface for managing and switching between profiles in Firefox. Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switcher/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc... Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher
  - r1cka 4y ago
    My problem is opening links from apps. Sometimes I want a link in Slack (or other desktop apps) to open in my personal profile and sometimes I want it to use my work profile. With Brave/Chrome, the link will open in whatever profile window is active. I can't find a way to make this work with Firefox.
    - commoner 4y ago
      Have you tried making a different desktop entry/shortcut for each Firefox profile and then setting a browser picker as your default browser? - Junction (Linux browser picker): https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction - Finicky (macOS browser rule setter): https://github.com/johnste/finicky https://github.com/johnste/finicky and Browserosaurus (macOS browser picker): https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus - Hurl (Windows browser picker): https://github.com/U-C-S/Hurl https://github.com/U-C-S/Hurl