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Firefox has profiles. It's just not very user-friendly. But Chrome tabs don't even have horizontal scrolling. If you work with, say, more than 10 tabs, Chrome

Firefox has profiles. It's just not very user-friendly. But Chrome tabs don't even have horizontal scrolling. If you work with, say, more than 10 tabs, Chrome squashes them, and the more tabs you have open, the less usable it becomes. Meanwhile, Firefox has horizontal scrolling and neat (geeky) options for navigating lots of tabs.

dizhn 2y ago
After a certain number Chromium based browsers stop showing the new tabs.
- krzyk 2y ago
  And usually stop working because they used up all the memory. I went back to Firefox after a week of using Chrome. Chrome is not compatible with my 100+ open tabs.
ReadCarlBarks 2y ago
They're working on a profile switcher: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re...
- kjkjadksj 2y ago
  Can’t you change the user profile in the command line with a flag? Surprised it takes this long to implement that in a gui fashion.
  - fabrice_d 2y ago
    There's already a GUI (launch firefox with the --profileManager command line flag), but it's very barebone.
    - morsch 2y ago
      This flag and the UI seems to go back to (at least) Netscape 7 in 2002, btw.
    - Vinnl 2y ago
      And also about:profiles, with the same caveat.
  - ReadCarlBarks 2y ago
    You can open different profiles by typing about:profiles into the address bar. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-remove...
- sharps1 2y ago
  The most important part of profiles is being able to right-click on a link and open it in a different profile. I don't see that mentioned. I typically have multiple profiles open at once. Edge has the best implementation where you can define sites opening in certain profiles. Pity ms ruined that browser - it is completely untrustworthy with it auto turning on options such as syncing.
mpeg 2y ago
The lack of horizontal scrolling in Chrome and most chrome-based browsers drives me absolutely crazy, it's such a basic feature... Firefox on the other hand has terrible support for profiles, I've been using Arc which is good but has worse performance when working with a lot of tabs (hundreds)
- attendant3446 2y ago
  I can't take a browser seriously unless it's open source. Arc may be the best browser of them all in terms of features, but I'd never consider it as an alternative to anything until it opens up its source code. We shouldn't trust a closed-source browser.
bilkow 2y ago
Also on Firefox you can hold CTRL+T / CTRL+W to open / close multiple tabs, CTRL+Click or SHIFT+Click to select multiple tabs at once and then e.g. move them to another window or close them, etc. I always assumed Chrome also had all of these features, including scrolling, etc.
0xml 2y ago
I remember chrome has a flag for this.

dizhn 2y ago

After a certain number Chromium based browsers stop showing the new tabs.

krzyk 2y ago
And usually stop working because they used up all the memory. I went back to Firefox after a week of using Chrome. Chrome is not compatible with my 100+ open tabs.

ReadCarlBarks 2y ago

They're working on a profile switcher: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re...

kjkjadksj 2y ago
Can’t you change the user profile in the command line with a flag? Surprised it takes this long to implement that in a gui fashion.
- fabrice_d 2y ago
  There's already a GUI (launch firefox with the --profileManager command line flag), but it's very barebone.
  - morsch 2y ago
    This flag and the UI seems to go back to (at least) Netscape 7 in 2002, btw.
  - Vinnl 2y ago
    And also about:profiles, with the same caveat.
- ReadCarlBarks 2y ago
  You can open different profiles by typing about:profiles into the address bar. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-remove...
sharps1 2y ago
The most important part of profiles is being able to right-click on a link and open it in a different profile. I don't see that mentioned. I typically have multiple profiles open at once. Edge has the best implementation where you can define sites opening in certain profiles. Pity ms ruined that browser - it is completely untrustworthy with it auto turning on options such as syncing.

mpeg 2y ago

The lack of horizontal scrolling in Chrome and most chrome-based browsers drives me absolutely crazy, it's such a basic feature... Firefox on the other hand has terrible support for profiles, I've been using Arc which is good but has worse performance when working with a lot of tabs (hundreds)

attendant3446 2y ago
I can't take a browser seriously unless it's open source. Arc may be the best browser of them all in terms of features, but I'd never consider it as an alternative to anything until it opens up its source code. We shouldn't trust a closed-source browser.

bilkow 2y ago

Also on Firefox you can hold CTRL+T / CTRL+W to open / close multiple tabs, CTRL+Click or SHIFT+Click to select multiple tabs at once and then e.g. move them to another window or close them, etc. I always assumed Chrome also had all of these features, including scrolling, etc.

0xml 2y ago

I remember chrome has a flag for this.