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And for those who do actually feel they want to separate their extensions and passwords and such as well, there's a Profiles revamp coming up that's looking rea

by Vinnl 2y ago

And for those who do actually feel they want to separate their extensions and passwords and such as well, there's a Profiles revamp coming up that's looking really good in Nightly: 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... But yes, people should learn about Multi-Account Containers if they haven't, yet. It's a killer feature that no other browser has. This is the extension to enable the UI for it: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta...

asabla 2y ago
> there's a Profiles revamp coming up that's looking really good in Nightly Oh wow! I totally missed this. Thank for sharing! I've been using multiple browsers for as long as I can remember. But always liked Firefox ocer the others. Especially now with container tabs. And the only thing I keep wishing for, has been a better experience with profile management, but also running the browser in different profiles. I'm really looking forward for these updates
- WorldMaker 2y ago
  I've been using the silly hack of using two versions of Firefox side-by-side (so, multiple browsers but they are both Firefox today), one which is Default in the OS and focuses on a single profile and Container Tab management. The other launches into the ProfileManager at startup to choose a Profile and doesn't pick up random links because it isn't Default. Better Profile Management tools may be nice to see. Maybe I won't need dueling builds of Firefox. Or maybe I'll keep it, we'll see.
pxoe 2y ago
Finally, it only took them 10 years to get around to updating that decades old UI. Wonder which other decade old UI parts are they gonna tackle next? ooh, will they finally do something about Library and the whole bookmarks/history menu/sidebar/window mess? It's a little insane how so much time has passed and so many versions were released, and some interface stuff still remains unpolished and disparate. Firefox simply can't get it together on that front. For tab containers, maybe there's a "good reason" that no other browser has that feature, cause it is confusing both as a concept and in use, and doesn't separate the rest of the stuff (or even the stuff in intends to separate when it's cumbersome and peculiar to use). Like, shared history, or inability to have separate extensions, defeats many of the purposes people use profiles for - which is an actual complete separation of things.
- vianneychevalie 2y ago
  As a consultant, switching between my many clients, testing, and home accounts is simply Alt+F+B+Arrow down ("Open new container tab"), all within the same UI, in the same window, with colored tabs, with the same extensions, and same password manager. I've been in situations needing up to half a dozen different Microsoft accounts (multiple Teams clients in Firefox, for instance), other browsers haven't solved this daily use-case for me. It's an easier account management tool.
  - pxoe 2y ago
    "Shared everything", is exactly what's undesirable about container tabs and what makes them a non-starter. I'd like to keep work actually separate. I don't need work tabs, or work history, or work downloads polluting the "main" profile. I don't need work extensions to be active outside of work. (there's just no way to make some extensions to work with just specific containers, so that's a dud.) All of that stuff can be in it's own space, and it would also make switching a bit easier - open profile, resume tabs, close profile, things stay put and ready to pick up where you left off, without needing to juggle tabs within the same profile and having them be an eyesore, be it work stuff on a regular profile or vice versa.
  - internet_points 2y ago
    there's also ctrl+.1 etc (ctrl period and then a number, first container is 1)
- r00fus 2y ago
  So what browser do you use that solves this properly and allows full adblocking?
- StuffMaster 2y ago
  Oh god please no. Chrome's history/bookmarks UI is awful.
- deleted 2y ago
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int_19h 2y ago
Safari has recently added Profiles which are very similar: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105100 https://support.apple.com/en-us/105100 OTOH Vivaldi guys said that much as they'd like to implement this, they're unable to due to some architectural issues with Blink. So basically no Blink browser will have that unless and until Google decides to do it in Chrome - which seems unlikely given their incentives.
- password4321 2y ago
  Chrome supports multiple profiles https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824
  - int_19h 2y ago
    If I remember correctly, these are profiles in the same sense this term is used in Firefox - i.e. a global setting that can be switched, but applies to all active browser windows at the time. So you can't use it to (easily) browse different websites in different profiles side by side. In Safari, "profiles" are a per-window thing, and there are facilities to open a website in a different profile etc, so effectively they work much more like Firefox containers (which are even more fine-grained tho: per-tab).
    - efreak 2y ago
      Chrome allows you to open multiple profiles simultaneously. I think Firefox can do that these days too, but for a while it's why I was using Chrome.

by Vinnl 2y ago

asabla 2y ago

> there's a Profiles revamp coming up that's looking really good in Nightly Oh wow! I totally missed this. Thank for sharing! I've been using multiple browsers for as long as I can remember. But always liked Firefox ocer the others. Especially now with container tabs. And the only thing I keep wishing for, has been a better experience with profile management, but also running the browser in different profiles. I'm really looking forward for these updates

WorldMaker 2y ago
I've been using the silly hack of using two versions of Firefox side-by-side (so, multiple browsers but they are both Firefox today), one which is Default in the OS and focuses on a single profile and Container Tab management. The other launches into the ProfileManager at startup to choose a Profile and doesn't pick up random links because it isn't Default. Better Profile Management tools may be nice to see. Maybe I won't need dueling builds of Firefox. Or maybe I'll keep it, we'll see.

pxoe 2y ago

Finally, it only took them 10 years to get around to updating that decades old UI. Wonder which other decade old UI parts are they gonna tackle next? ooh, will they finally do something about Library and the whole bookmarks/history menu/sidebar/window mess? It's a little insane how so much time has passed and so many versions were released, and some interface stuff still remains unpolished and disparate. Firefox simply can't get it together on that front. For tab containers, maybe there's a "good reason" that no other browser has that feature, cause it is confusing both as a concept and in use, and doesn't separate the rest of the stuff (or even the stuff in intends to separate when it's cumbersome and peculiar to use). Like, shared history, or inability to have separate extensions, defeats many of the purposes people use profiles for - which is an actual complete separation of things.

vianneychevalie 2y ago
As a consultant, switching between my many clients, testing, and home accounts is simply Alt+F+B+Arrow down ("Open new container tab"), all within the same UI, in the same window, with colored tabs, with the same extensions, and same password manager. I've been in situations needing up to half a dozen different Microsoft accounts (multiple Teams clients in Firefox, for instance), other browsers haven't solved this daily use-case for me. It's an easier account management tool.
- pxoe 2y ago
  "Shared everything", is exactly what's undesirable about container tabs and what makes them a non-starter. I'd like to keep work actually separate. I don't need work tabs, or work history, or work downloads polluting the "main" profile. I don't need work extensions to be active outside of work. (there's just no way to make some extensions to work with just specific containers, so that's a dud.) All of that stuff can be in it's own space, and it would also make switching a bit easier - open profile, resume tabs, close profile, things stay put and ready to pick up where you left off, without needing to juggle tabs within the same profile and having them be an eyesore, be it work stuff on a regular profile or vice versa.
- internet_points 2y ago
  there's also ctrl+.1 etc (ctrl period and then a number, first container is 1)
r00fus 2y ago
So what browser do you use that solves this properly and allows full adblocking?
StuffMaster 2y ago
Oh god please no. Chrome's history/bookmarks UI is awful.
deleted 2y ago
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int_19h 2y ago

Safari has recently added Profiles which are very similar: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105100 https://support.apple.com/en-us/105100 OTOH Vivaldi guys said that much as they'd like to implement this, they're unable to due to some architectural issues with Blink. So basically no Blink browser will have that unless and until Google decides to do it in Chrome - which seems unlikely given their incentives.

password4321 2y ago
Chrome supports multiple profiles https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824
- int_19h 2y ago
  If I remember correctly, these are profiles in the same sense this term is used in Firefox - i.e. a global setting that can be switched, but applies to all active browser windows at the time. So you can't use it to (easily) browse different websites in different profiles side by side. In Safari, "profiles" are a per-window thing, and there are facilities to open a website in a different profile etc, so effectively they work much more like Firefox containers (which are even more fine-grained tho: per-tab).
  - efreak 2y ago
    Chrome allows you to open multiple profiles simultaneously. I think Firefox can do that these days too, but for a while it's why I was using Chrome.