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Kevin Russell

@kurtseifried @ghorwood

Import Profiles

"You'll be prompted to choose which data you want to import. If you've set up multiple Chrome browser profiles, you'll first be asked which profile you want to import data from. "

howtogeek.com/333047/how-to-mi
15 August at 21:35 | Open on mstdn.social
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kurtseifried (he/him)

@kevinrns @ghorwood Profile Manager. A lot of people need to switch between more than one account easily. Not profile import. Chrome vs Firefox:
15 August at 21:51 | Open on infosec.exchange
mitchellmebane :donor:

@kurtseifried @kevinrns @ghorwood Firefox currently has containers. They're not quite the same as profiles, but they're in some ways more flexible, since you can control them on a per-tab basis.

For some reason, they choose to ship this functionality in an extension. I don't really know why.
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

15 August at 23:20 | Open on infosec.exchange
Paul Hennell • Dev

@mitchellmebane @kurtseifried Containers are the best. Can have multiple Microsoft/Google tabs right next to each in different accounts, and set stuff like Facebook to only open it its own sandboxed container.
Use profiles still in Chrome, but haven't used Firefox profiles for years now.

16 August at 8:05 | Open on phpc.social
Tomi the Slav and 1024 others

@kurtseifried @kevinrns @ghorwood 4 days ago I started migration Chrome --> FF. I'm using multiple synced Google profiles as you, Chrome on desktop and mobile.
I really want to make a switch, but I still didn't find an easy way to accomplish that in FF. Maybe I'm dumb.
Also, some business related plugins are non-existent in FF.
So yeah, I agree, the switch is probably dead easy for simple use cases. But for my use case, not so.

16 August at 9:35 | Open on mastodon.social
dusoft
Tomi the Slav and 1024 others

@dusoft thanks, but no, it doesn't solve what I'm looking for.
I wrote about it in blog:
blog.rozman.info/switching-fro

16 August at 20:03 | Open on mastodon.social
dusoft

@po3mah Your use case differs. Anyway, all those Google service-related annoyances are because Google actively slows other browsers and disables some functionality for them. So, you might want to direct your complaints (if you are a paying user) to Google support.

16 August at 21:56 | Open on fosstodon.org
Tomi the Slav and 1024 others

@dusoft Funny, today I tried copy pasting images from Google Photos and it suddenly works! I have to update the blog.
If I haven't made that screenshot few days ago, I would thought my mind is playing tricks on me :)
*update* it works, but only in main photo folder, but not in albums. What a strange issue.

17 August at 8:58 | Open on mastodon.social
dusoft

@po3mah Weird, indeed. I also identified an issue, where it's impossible to drag and drop to Drive, but most of the time it works. Not sure whose bug or if affected by an extension.

17 August at 10:23 | Open on fosstodon.org
kaffee

@kurtseifried @kevinrns @ghorwood on my box I can simply rightclick the firefox icon and choose "Start profilemanager" . I think it is vanilla functionallity.

17 August at 8:04 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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