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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Kecessa@sh.itjust.works to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

(On Windows anyway, don't know if different on Linux)

Just wanted to share that as a user of both Firefox and Chrome, it's one thing that makes me hate switching to Firefox. I often need to use two different profiles and the way Firefox does it sucks.

With Chrome I've got two shortcuts (that Chrome creates by activating an option) pinned to my taskbar that look distinct from one another and the instances that I open are combined under their respective profile shortcuts.

With Firefox I need to manually create two shortcuts, assign two distinct icons to differentiate them, change some properties so they open the right profile, pin them and because they're "regular shortcuts" instead of the default Firefox launcher shortcut, when I open the program I end up with a third Firefox icon in my taskbar (it does not open under the shortcut I used, it acts as if I clicked a shortcut on my desktop) where all instances get merged together no matter which profile they're associated with.

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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

That sounds like a lot of effort, switching browsers all the time. What does that provide you that Firefox Account Containers doesn't?

I only really use profiles to run automated tests (I'm a dev), and even that's rare.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

it's not 'all the time'. far from it. usually only one, sometimes two, windows. i don't go into the lesser-used ones very often at all. like i said, different purposes--some of which are infrequent but require different configurations.

the portable 'installs' can also be zipped-up, put on (and run from) flash, moved to or replicated on different systems, all easier than backing-up and restoring individual profiles.

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