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I'm a heavy user of Firefox profiles, but I have two major feature requests: - Allow better visual distinction of profiles, e.g. giving them different colors.

I'm a heavy user of Firefox profiles, but I have two major feature requests: - Allow better visual distinction of profiles, e.g. giving them different colors. When you have multiple browsers open on multiple profiles, it's easy to get confused. - Create a better UX when accidentally launching a profile that's already running. Currrently what happens is that it waits for a timeout and then displays an error message. Instead, it should just give focus to the window already running.

wwarek 3y ago
> Allow better visual distinction of profiles For that I simply use different themes and it works perfectly
TowerTall 3y ago
> Allow better visual distinction of profiles, e.g. giving them different colors. I use the profiles in Brave for that exact reason. The ability to have different colors on the icons in the taskbar and the browser chrome was the reason I gave Brave a go in the first place. Now it is a feature I cannot live without.
- _ahxg 3y ago
  same for me. That and vertical tabs are quite convenient. IPFS integration is also quite cool, would be nice to see that in all mainstream browsers.
ivberrOg 3y ago
This addon may be helpful for the visual distinction https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/window-titler/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/window-titler...
enragedcacti 3y ago
My solution to both of these has been to create separate .desktop entries for each profile and give each a theme and a custom icon. That way I can know from the window manager which profiles I have open and which one I'm looking at according to the theme. You can then launch a specific profile through the icon, with Super->"ffwork", or with the right-click->open new window if you have it open already. The main problem is that I have completely forgotten how to do this multiple times across different machines and I never remember which combo of FF flags and .desktop values necessary to get instances identifying themselves to the dwm as a separate program. I think this is correct though https://askubuntu.com/questions/1209434/how-to-display-two-different-profiles-of-firefox-running-under-two-different-ico https://askubuntu.com/questions/1209434/how-to-display-two-d...
rozab 3y ago
I use https://color.firefox.com/ https://color.firefox.com/ to differentiate. It's a solid theming system that they built a few years ago, promoted for about a week and then never mentioned again. Probably because they'd rather promote their braindead self-destructing themes (sorry, 'Colorways drops')
- stakhanov 3y ago
  Thanks for the pointer!
shiroiuma 3y ago
>Allow better visual distinction of profiles, e.g. giving them different colors. When you have multiple browsers open on multiple profiles, it's easy to get confused. This would be nice, but one thing you can do for now (though it takes some discipline to not screw up) is to use separate virtual desktops, and put the different profiles on different desktops.

wwarek 3y ago

> Allow better visual distinction of profiles For that I simply use different themes and it works perfectly

TowerTall 3y ago

> Allow better visual distinction of profiles, e.g. giving them different colors. I use the profiles in Brave for that exact reason. The ability to have different colors on the icons in the taskbar and the browser chrome was the reason I gave Brave a go in the first place. Now it is a feature I cannot live without.

_ahxg 3y ago
same for me. That and vertical tabs are quite convenient. IPFS integration is also quite cool, would be nice to see that in all mainstream browsers.

ivberrOg 3y ago

This addon may be helpful for the visual distinction https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/window-titler/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/window-titler...

enragedcacti 3y ago

My solution to both of these has been to create separate .desktop entries for each profile and give each a theme and a custom icon. That way I can know from the window manager which profiles I have open and which one I'm looking at according to the theme. You can then launch a specific profile through the icon, with Super->"ffwork", or with the right-click->open new window if you have it open already. The main problem is that I have completely forgotten how to do this multiple times across different machines and I never remember which combo of FF flags and .desktop values necessary to get instances identifying themselves to the dwm as a separate program. I think this is correct though https://askubuntu.com/questions/1209434/how-to-display-two-different-profiles-of-firefox-running-under-two-different-ico https://askubuntu.com/questions/1209434/how-to-display-two-d...

rozab 3y ago

I use https://color.firefox.com/ https://color.firefox.com/ to differentiate. It's a solid theming system that they built a few years ago, promoted for about a week and then never mentioned again. Probably because they'd rather promote their braindead self-destructing themes (sorry, 'Colorways drops')

stakhanov 3y ago
Thanks for the pointer!

shiroiuma 3y ago

>Allow better visual distinction of profiles, e.g. giving them different colors. When you have multiple browsers open on multiple profiles, it's easy to get confused. This would be nice, but one thing you can do for now (though it takes some discipline to not screw up) is to use separate virtual desktops, and put the different profiles on different desktops.