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The most useful feature with the worst UX. You have to type about:profiles and then create a new profile. But imagin you now want to move old profiles to a new

by jmakov 11mo ago

The most useful feature with the worst UX. You have to type about:profiles and then create a new profile. But imagin you now want to move old profiles to a new computer and FF happens to run in a Flatpack. Yeah, much fun

agumonkey 11mo ago
there's an old '-P' flag that shows a small ui see https://imgur.com/a/Tmt3oEL https://imgur.com/a/Tmt3oEL
- ciupicri 11mo ago
  Does it still work?
  - deleted 11mo ago
    [deleted]
  - agumonkey 11mo ago
    yes. I just started using it last week to split work related browsing from personal stuff.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 11mo ago
  That used to be a start menu entry in the old days. I had heard it was removed but to my surprise -P works on my current linux. I'll have to see if it does actually start a new profile.
- ishouldbework 11mo ago
  Huh, I had no idea the <profile> argument to -P is optional (--help does not say), I was always using --ProfileManager instead. Nice quality of life improvement, thanks for the information!
  - agumonkey 11mo ago
    ah well, ironically I had no idea that -P could take a profile-name arg.. I always used it without to trigger the gui .. so I return the thanks
fa3556 11mo ago
You can (now?) create profiles from the account icon in the toolbar [1] and at least on my firefox install, you can also do it from the hamburger menu. I use firefox via flatpak and had no issues so far accessing profile data (in one of the folders in ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/.mozilla/firefox/ - I keep a regular archive of the entire folder as backup). [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management
- dare944 11mo ago
  > Not all users will see the new Profiles menu in the toolbar, since this feature is being rolled out gradually I don't see it yet, but hopefully soon.
  - fa3556 11mo ago
    You could use the about:config preference browser.profiles.enabled in the meantime I suppose.
- kiwijamo 11mo ago
  Maybe it hasn't been rolled out to me yet. Or it might be because I'm not logged into a Firefox profile? It is only availiable to those logged in?
  - fa3556 11mo ago
    No I don't use sync at all. I think it might just require `browser.profiles.enabled` to be set to true in about:config, at least until wider rollout.
- eduction 11mo ago
  I don't have it on 144.0.2 on mac in either of those places, just as a datapoint
  - jjice 11mo ago
    I'm on 144.0.2 on MacOS and I do have it. Under the hamburger menu in the upper right and near the top of the list. Never set up a profile on this machine before, so maybe that could be related?
mvx64 11mo ago
I found out about profiles recently and I just couldn't believe that that's the standard way to access them. Also, it's not obvious which profile you are currently on, so there are some silly but necessary workarounds like having a dummy bookmark with the profile name on each or something like that, while it could just be a string next to the address bar. It works really well though. Does exactly what I would expect and hope from such a feature.
- ifh-hn 11mo ago
  I have different coloured themes for my profiles. Simple and immediate.
jobigoud 11mo ago
Use -p in your shortcut to firefox and it will show the profile manager on launch, from that you can easily create a new profile or open a new window on existing one.
- jimangel2001 11mo ago
  cli is not good ux

by jmakov 11mo ago

agumonkey 11mo ago

there's an old '-P' flag that shows a small ui see https://imgur.com/a/Tmt3oEL https://imgur.com/a/Tmt3oEL

ciupicri 11mo ago
Does it still work?
- deleted 11mo ago
  [deleted]
- agumonkey 11mo ago
  yes. I just started using it last week to split work related browsing from personal stuff.
Am4TIfIsER0ppos 11mo ago
That used to be a start menu entry in the old days. I had heard it was removed but to my surprise -P works on my current linux. I'll have to see if it does actually start a new profile.
ishouldbework 11mo ago
Huh, I had no idea the <profile> argument to -P is optional (--help does not say), I was always using --ProfileManager instead. Nice quality of life improvement, thanks for the information!
- agumonkey 11mo ago
  ah well, ironically I had no idea that -P could take a profile-name arg.. I always used it without to trigger the gui .. so I return the thanks

fa3556 11mo ago

You can (now?) create profiles from the account icon in the toolbar [1] and at least on my firefox install, you can also do it from the hamburger menu. I use firefox via flatpak and had no issues so far accessing profile data (in one of the folders in ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/.mozilla/firefox/ - I keep a regular archive of the entire folder as backup). [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management

dare944 11mo ago
> Not all users will see the new Profiles menu in the toolbar, since this feature is being rolled out gradually I don't see it yet, but hopefully soon.
- fa3556 11mo ago
  You could use the about:config preference browser.profiles.enabled in the meantime I suppose.
kiwijamo 11mo ago
Maybe it hasn't been rolled out to me yet. Or it might be because I'm not logged into a Firefox profile? It is only availiable to those logged in?
- fa3556 11mo ago
  No I don't use sync at all. I think it might just require `browser.profiles.enabled` to be set to true in about:config, at least until wider rollout.
eduction 11mo ago
I don't have it on 144.0.2 on mac in either of those places, just as a datapoint
- jjice 11mo ago
  I'm on 144.0.2 on MacOS and I do have it. Under the hamburger menu in the upper right and near the top of the list. Never set up a profile on this machine before, so maybe that could be related?

mvx64 11mo ago

I found out about profiles recently and I just couldn't believe that that's the standard way to access them. Also, it's not obvious which profile you are currently on, so there are some silly but necessary workarounds like having a dummy bookmark with the profile name on each or something like that, while it could just be a string next to the address bar. It works really well though. Does exactly what I would expect and hope from such a feature.

ifh-hn 11mo ago
I have different coloured themes for my profiles. Simple and immediate.

jobigoud 11mo ago

Use -p in your shortcut to firefox and it will show the profile manager on launch, from that you can easily create a new profile or open a new window on existing one.

jimangel2001 11mo ago
cli is not good ux