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kurtseifried (he/him)

@reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood No profile switcher. type "about:profile", no quick way without installing third party tools.

Because in 2024 who would have more than one account? Nobody!

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JacksonBates

@kurtseifried @reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood They've got a native profile switcher in beta behind one of the many config settings. I used to use a third party extension for it, but now use the built in with no issues.

(Sorry not to share the actually useful details...not at my desktop right now. I might remember to come back with the details)

wizzwizz4

@JacksonBates @kurtseifried @reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood Beta? The profile switcher's been around for donkey's years. Command-line parameter -P, or it appears automatically if you have multiple profiles and none default.

JacksonBates

@wizzwizz4 @kurtseifried @reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood no, I specifically mean a simple UI affordance for it, in the menu bar.

JacksonBates

@wizzwizz4 @kurtseifried @reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood ah, here it is. in about:config you can set browser.profiles.enabled to true to access the UI switcher.

kurtseifried (he/him)

@JacksonBates @wizzwizz4 @reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood why on gods good earth is that not a default or easily enabled? Sigh.

Reinout van Schouwen

@kurtseifried
What's the use case? Users have their own accounts so their own profile by definition. Other reasons to have separate profiles within an account is covered by container tabs or private windows, AFAICS.
@JacksonBates @wizzwizz4 @kevinrns @ghorwood

Sylvain Delafoy

@reinouts @kurtseifried

I'm an extensive user of container tabs and enjoy having a single window holding my browsing so less use of Alt-tab ( my fingers are gratefull to Mozilla ).

It is great, after a small training websites open in the right container (except google ones, I have to look at the container name in the URL because that is how you keep them separated)

Consistent user expertience...

I love it

wizzwizz4

@reinouts @kurtseifried Different sets of extensions, or config that isn't covered by container tabs or private windows. For example, a work VPN.

shine

@reinouts @kurtseifried @JacksonBates @wizzwizz4 @kevinrns @ghorwood I was often in a situation where for example work used a different password manager than I do. Having two password managers fight for a single login form is annoying. In those cases, it's also more comfortable to have a higher degree of separation, I sometimes open tabs in wrong containers.

squalouJenkins

@reinouts @kurtseifried @JacksonBates @wizzwizz4 @kevinrns @ghorwood There are cornercases where containers are not enough. Example : Saved users and passwords are (weirdly enough) shared accross containers. Now imagine several cloud-provider account with different account alias but same username (because business, no choice, aws). This is my daily job situation :D

Reinout van Schouwen replied to squalouJenkins

@squalouJenkins
A valid corner case indeed, but I suppose you could use third party password managers instead of relying on built-in saved password functionality.
@kurtseifried @JacksonBates @wizzwizz4 @kevinrns @ghorwood

Rémi Cardona

@kurtseifried @JacksonBates @wizzwizz4 @reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood it's behind a setting because it's a new development, simple as that. It'll be turned on by default when deemed ready, it's been publicly announced.

William B Peckham

@kurtseifried @JacksonBates @wizzwizz4 @reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood Perhaps because only seven out of 100 users make use of that. To some of the ones that use it it's terribly important, but most people don't.

kurtseifried (he/him)

@wbpeckham @JacksonBates @wizzwizz4 @reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood Chrome and Edge have done this for years. Shrug. I think it might be more than 7%, even my kids use separate profiles (school and personal). I suspect a lot of people do this, especially with BYOD policies becoming more common.

Kevin Russell

@kurtseifried @reinouts @ghorwood

I don't get fanboys.

You're wrong.

It would be easy to distract from this festival of getting rid of Chrome, now that they have stolen uBlock from their users, because they are corporate spies, monopolistic subversives, but it's a holiday "Dump Chrome Day" and its too tiring to list all the ways Chrome, and Google suck.

Touch some grass.

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/p

@kurtseifried @reinouts @ghorwood

I don't get fanboys.

You're wrong.

It would be easy to distract from this festival of getting rid of Chrome, now that they have stolen uBlock from their users, because they are corporate spies, monopolistic subversives, but it's a holiday "Dump Chrome Day" and its too tiring to list all the ways Chrome, and Google suck.

bananamangodog

@kurtseifried @reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood

about:profile then "Launch profile in new browser", then close the original window. Not technically a switcher function but it does the same except close the original window.

Also turn on the profile selection dialog when you launch Firefox change the shortcut to include the -P switch.

Cal Alaera

@kurtseifried @reinouts @kevinrns @ghorwood

It's about:profiles, not about:profile

Or you could make a shortcut that runs firefox.exe -P (capital P)

Once you have more than one profile the default when you launch Firefox is to ask you which one you want to use.

Or you could do what I did, ditch profiles and start using Containers instead, they're also built in and far more flexible, addons further enhance them.

Happy to help, have a nice day. :)

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