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They should make it a bit more clear they added features that were not there before and what, as it is not clear to me what has changed from before that I tried
by freehorse 1y ago
They should make it a bit more clear they added features that were not there before and what, as it is not clear to me what has changed from before that I tried using them. Apparently it seems better now, but no wonder most commenters do not realise this is about some new features not about the old.
- WhyNotHugo 1y agoWhat’s new now? Just the UI for picking profiles? The article contains absolutely no details.
- freehorse 1y agoYeah, that is exactly the problem. So far I see that it is easier to create/open/swap between different profiles (before the easiest way was literally the terminal). There is a small icon next to firefox dock icon on macos for each profile that you can choose, which I do not remember before. So you can easily distinguish which icon corresponds to which profile window. And that you can edit the theme for each profile easier.
- wongarsu 1y agoThe article links to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management. From my memory of how profiles worked previously it's mostly a fresh coat of paint for things you could do before. The two most exciting things to me: 1. You can now launch and manage profiles from a menu hidden in the account menu (feels like the wrong place to put it, but shows up for me even though I'm not signed in) 2. Mozilla actually cares about profiles again. The feature felt mostly abandoned before, nearly inaccessible without command line flags or the very bare-bones and ugly about:profiles
- ibejoeb 1y agoStill difficult to tell for me. I enabled `browser.profiles.enabled` and now there's Profiles in the hamburger menu. However, it only shows a default profile. It does not show any other existing profiles.