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Multiple profiles

by mcfedr 3y ago

Multiple profiles

beej71 3y ago
It could use smoother UI support, but I've been using multiple profiles on FF for years. I'm using them right now.
dralley 3y ago
Firefox has multiple profiles, I have used them every day for years. The UI is poor, particularly in terms of discovering that they exist, but they do.
lazycouchpotato 3y ago
I'm not sure what your use case is, but Firefox has Containers [1], allowing you to isolate different online identities into containers. It separates the cookies and storage for each container. An example of where I use this is for separating my personal Gmail from my uni's Google's Workspace account. It's annoying clicking on a uni Google Doc link only for it to block me because it chose my default login which is my personal Gmail. I have to switch between Google accounts (which I believe wasn't possible until recently?). With Containers however, I just open the link in my "Uni" container and I'm good to go. No fuss. I have seen classmates use Chrome profiles for the same example above, but from what they showed me they couldn't have their personal profile and their school profile open at the same time - they had to switch between profiles each time. With Containers, I can access tabs from all containers at the same time. Containers are colour coded so you know which is which. There are additional containers available. If you don't like Meta snooping on you outside of their websites, there's a Facebook container by Mozilla [2] that isolates your web activity from Facebook. Other than that, Firefox does appear to support profiles, but it appears to be a bit clunky. [3] I've never used it and until @dralley's comment didn't even know it existed. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont... [3] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
ninkendo 3y ago
about:profiles
quesera 3y ago
Enter "about:profiles" into the URL field. The UI on this page is rough, but once you have more than one profile you will get a popup at launch to select from your list or to create more. I have dozens of profiles, custom launchers etc. I run four or five simultaneously most of the time. If you only need a couple profiles, the standard launch UI will do. ... But, see also "Multi-Account Containers" which segregate cookies between sites so you can have multiple simultaneous logins to various services in a single profile. Containers share preferences and browser config (and window), but segregate cookies. Profiles are completely independent. I use both, extensively. E.g. my work profile has containers for user, admin, owner, and machine accounts at GitHub. My personal profile has my private personal GitHub account only.

Multiple profiles

by mcfedr 3y ago

Multiple profiles

beej71 3y ago

It could use smoother UI support, but I've been using multiple profiles on FF for years. I'm using them right now.

dralley 3y ago

Firefox has multiple profiles, I have used them every day for years. The UI is poor, particularly in terms of discovering that they exist, but they do.

lazycouchpotato 3y ago

I'm not sure what your use case is, but Firefox has Containers [1], allowing you to isolate different online identities into containers. It separates the cookies and storage for each container. An example of where I use this is for separating my personal Gmail from my uni's Google's Workspace account. It's annoying clicking on a uni Google Doc link only for it to block me because it chose my default login which is my personal Gmail. I have to switch between Google accounts (which I believe wasn't possible until recently?). With Containers however, I just open the link in my "Uni" container and I'm good to go. No fuss. I have seen classmates use Chrome profiles for the same example above, but from what they showed me they couldn't have their personal profile and their school profile open at the same time - they had to switch between profiles each time. With Containers, I can access tabs from all containers at the same time. Containers are colour coded so you know which is which. There are additional containers available. If you don't like Meta snooping on you outside of their websites, there's a Facebook container by Mozilla [2] that isolates your web activity from Facebook. Other than that, Firefox does appear to support profiles, but it appears to be a bit clunky. [3] I've never used it and until @dralley's comment didn't even know it existed. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont... [3] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

ninkendo 3y ago

about:profiles

quesera 3y ago

Enter "about:profiles" into the URL field. The UI on this page is rough, but once you have more than one profile you will get a popup at launch to select from your list or to create more. I have dozens of profiles, custom launchers etc. I run four or five simultaneously most of the time. If you only need a couple profiles, the standard launch UI will do. ... But, see also "Multi-Account Containers" which segregate cookies between sites so you can have multiple simultaneous logins to various services in a single profile. Containers share preferences and browser config (and window), but segregate cookies. Profiles are completely independent. I use both, extensively. E.g. my work profile has containers for user, admin, owner, and machine accounts at GitHub. My personal profile has my private personal GitHub account only.