Firefox Nightly now lets you create, Switch & Manage profiles like Chrome with themes, avatars to seperate work and personal browsing.
    • lud@lemm.ee
      4·
      7 hours ago

      Because it’s integrated into the GUI similar to how pretty much every other browser does it, of course .

  • LittleBobbyTables@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    111·
    1 day ago

    This is excellent news. This is one of the biggest features that I’ve wanted out of Firefox for years, and one of the reasons I’ve kept Chromium as a secondary browser all this time.

    I do remember seeing a community-made GitHub project that added a profile switcher to Firefox, which looked pretty good, but it also required installing an executable somewhere on the system, which I’m not exactly keen on.

    I think Zen Browser has a built-in profile switcher, but it also changes a bunch of core UI elements… I just want Firefox with a profile switcher, lol.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    215·
    1 day ago

    At the moment, running different profiles simultaneously is not possible

    That’s the one feature I really want from Firefox profiles!

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I feel like this hasn’t been said enough: Multi-account containers are already all I need.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 day ago

      At the moment, running different profiles simultaneously is not possible

      Bullshit. I’ve been multiboxing Firefox for years.

      You need to run firefox.exe -p to open profile manager and then create all the profiles you want. Then create shortcuts to each new profile. firefox.exe -p ProfileName

      This allows you to run a personal profile, work profile and porn profile simultaneously without crossing streams.

      • Lemmchen@feddit.org
        3·
        10 hours ago

        Under Linux you can also start a throwaway profile by running firefox -P $(mktemp -d) (note the capital P for path)

    • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
      24·
      1 day ago

      At the moment, running different profiles simultaneously is not possible

      Bullocks. I run 2 or 3 profiles at the same time. For over 2 years now. Just easier now.

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
      12·
      1 day ago

      It already just works, just go to about:profiles and launch as another profile. There’s also have container tabs, so no need for a separate profile when you only need isolation.

    • wallybeavis@lemmings.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      That’s unfortunate, I was hoping for a ‘workspaces’ like feature as in Opera. I run FF and Opera simultaneaously to segregate my tabs. It would be really nice if we could get something like that extended to profiles, so I could just run FF

        • wallybeavis@lemmings.world
          3·
          1 day ago

          The last time I looked at containers I think it was an add-on, but I don’t think (and please correct me if I’m wrong), it filtered or made active the current viewable tabs.

          In Opera there’s an icon list on the left and depending on which one is selected those are the only tabs displayed, and/or made active. I’ll take another look at FF containers.

          Someone mentioned ‘about:profiles’ above, I think that may be closer to what I’m looking for, maybe that combined with containers can reduce my foot print to just Firefox, thanks for the suggestion

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Cool. I’ve been thinking they should just make that available somewhere for quite a while now, since about:profiles was already pretty usable, it was just impossible to find for normal users. But that they’re improving the user experience at the same time is quite welcome, too.