A boon for organizing browser clutter.
  • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    2か月前

    Ironically, in the article it’s pictured running on Windows, which now has a built-in mechanic for automatically screen shotting everything you do and keeping records.

    Yay.

        • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2か月前

          Is a hidden feature still a feature?

          I’ve been using this daily for many years. It’s behind a CLI flag, is that hidden ?

          • embMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2か月前

            Yes, and also no. Usually, I’d call something a feature if non tech savvy users can use it easily. If it’s hidden behind the command line, most users probably can’t use it. So, to me and colloquially, I wouldn’t call it a feature. Although I get the argument for it.

    • Ech@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2か月前

      I love containers, but it has a pretty frustrating and unfriendly ui. If something else allowed sorting and categorizing, I think that’d be an upgrade.

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2か月前

        Fair, I just always felt containers were better than profiles, cause each tab is a profile now. The tooling does need improvement, I still get lost when trying to access some configs for it

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      24·
      2か月前

      separate settings, separate addons, separate about prefs. also for when the PC is used by more than one person but there is only one user account

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2か月前

        Ok this is handy ngl. I’ve forgotten about the shared family compute scenario

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2か月前

      It’s the same as about:profiles

      Just an easy way to separate people’s browsing histories, cookes, bookmarks, etc I guess. And you can have them sync independently as well. For if other people want to use the same computer

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2か月前

        That makes sense. The bookmarks and settings kinda made everything fit better in my head, thanks!

  • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2か月前

    ITT: People who only use Windows and don’t realize that FF works differently on other systems.

  • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2か月前

    I find multi account containers to be the best workflow ergonomics when it comes to separating logins and sessions. I think having the same bookmarks, theme, etc. is actually nice. But I’m sure many really enjoy profile swapping.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2か月前

      profiles also allow different addons and addon configurations, default fonts, browser config, etc… it’s kinda like having a whole other user account or a whole other copy of the browser, rather than just cookie and storage isolation

        • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          2か月前

          totally; and i think that’s very fair for the large majority of use-cases… most people don’t need different browser settings: they just need different local storage

    • sleen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2か月前

      Agreed, it is tiring to type about:profiles each time, and then it auto corrects it to about:profiling instead.

        • dastanktal@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2か月前

          I can let my kids play on my computer without them screwing up my personal browser history or getting into any of my accounts without having to teach them how to use yet another extension.

          Vivaldi has a great example of profile management where I can literally create a desktop shortcut for each person that uses my computer, complete with their name, and it’s their own separate internet profile.

          Yes, I’m aware I could solve this problem by using multiple user profiles on my computer, but the overhead and the amount of management would also be a massive headache. It is just far easier to do this.

          • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            2か月前

            Fair, I mostly use my PC alone, so there’s no need for separate profiles. Having multi-account containers is a godsend for me. It isolates session data between tabs allowing me to have as many browser sessions as I need in a single browser window.

            • dastanktal@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              2か月前

              Oh, I do the same thing, I use the same extension that you do, it just doesn’t fit my use case for multiple profile management.

  • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2か月前

    Until it gets a proper Guest mode like Chrome (which is basically a private window without the shame of using one), the only thing they did is add a cute little interface to an ancient feature.

  • Dragomus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    173·
    2か月前

    Uhm … is this perhaps for the android browser then?

    The desktop browser has had this for a long long time, though in recent builds a bit hidden. I still use various profiles, very handy.

  • N3Cr0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    308·
    2か月前

    about:profiles always worked for me. And the profile manager. I don’t need a 3rd ui for switching profiles.

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2か月前

      The new one is a much better experience. It works like profiles in chrome now. The old one is still there for you to use if you prefer.

      • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        2か月前

        It works like profiles in chrome now.

        Is it gonna pop up obnoxiously every time you start the program?

        Is it gonna demand that I create a new profile every time I sign in to Google?

        • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2か月前

          Is it gonna pop up obnoxiously every time you start the program?

          Your choice, there’s a checkbox to ask every time or not

          Is it gonna demand that I create a new profile every time I sign in to Google?

          I don’t recall anything like that, though I don’t recall that in Chrome either.

  • alastel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    2か月前

    One thing that I wonder is if I can convert my old firefox -P profiles into this new kind of profiles, and have them all be synced by firefox with a single account instead of recreating them on all my devices. On the filesystem they seem to be the same, just not in the same place.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2か月前

      Their blog implied you would need to create a separate sync account for each profile. It’d obviously be better if you could choose which profiles are linked to which account, in addition to local only.

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2か月前

        i guess you’d need to expose both options: the ability to sync some profiles to some accounts and others to another… for example, i probably wouldn’t want my personal profile to sync to my work devices but id want my work profiles to sync between each other and be accessible from some of my home devices