When will Firefox have a better UI for their profiles? That's literally the only thing stopping me from switching to Firefox. Google has an entire menu devoted to it.
about:profiles doesn't do what you need?
Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
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Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#82Containers are a killer feature for Firefox, like having adblocking that works on mobile (unlike on Chrome).
Just need containers on the mobile version.
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What benefit do you get from starting another Firefox instance with a different profile compared to simply using a different container in the same instance?
Different profiles can have different extensions, so if you don't fully trust some extension you can isolate it to a given profile.
Also different bookmarks and different histories.
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#84One issue I have when using containers is that if I have a non-containerised tab and I click a link in it that leads to Twitter, which I have a container for, a new tab opens in the container, but the current tab also switches to a Twitter tab with the click, clobbering my session/history. Is this a bug or conflict with another setting or add-on?
this doesn't happen for me. what's the other add-ons you have ?
Fixed it. Containerise has a separate "Keep old tabs" setting that is different to the Multi-Account Containers "Replace tab" functionality. It works as intended now. Horray!
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always wondered why there was no easier way to change profiles in firefox than about:profiles. I am not sure what your solution is though, would you mind going into details ? Thanks in advance
You can create a shortcut which will launch with the profile of choice: https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1171685
The problem is that this is the same solution as it was in 2005 and no average user is mucking about with specified shortcuts or command line flags. Chromium has demonstrated the most obvious GUI for this but for whatever reason the FF product team believes we should prefer about:profiles or this solution.
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#86When will Firefox have a better UI for their profiles? That's literally the only thing stopping me from switching to Firefox. Google has an entire menu devoted to it.
The free and open source Profile Switcher for Firefox extension, paired with the connector app, adds a browser profile menu to Firefox similar to the one on Chrome. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28356472
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#87Don't forget, you can still use multiple profiles. I have multiple shortcuts setup, each starting FF with a different profile. Within a profile, I use containers to further partition things. edit: for instance, I have a 'banking' profile with containers for each bank, brokerage, etc. The profile is totally separate from my 'general browsing' profile, so nothing can be sniffed. And the containers allow me to partition…
I use profiles and containers together in Firefox, which gives more flexibility than either of these features alone.
Firefox lacks a built-in profile switcher menu like the one in Chrome, but the FOSS browser extension called Profile Switcher for Firefox is a similar replacement:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/profile-switc...
You'll need to install the connector for the extension to work:
https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher-connect...
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Sideberry is TST with better perfomance, FYI. Also, right there with ya - treed tabs is the only reason I stick with FF.
Better performance not necessarily, but you can set custom rules for containers. You can set the user agent and proxy settings on a container base which is nice
Firefox used to freeze up periodically when I used TST, and that went away when I switched. That's all I meant.
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#89Don't forget, you can still use multiple profiles. I have multiple shortcuts setup, each starting FF with a different profile. Within a profile, I use containers to further partition things. edit: for instance, I have a 'banking' profile with containers for each bank, brokerage, etc. The profile is totally separate from my 'general browsing' profile, so nothing can be sniffed. And the containers allow me to partition…
I always wondered why there was no easier way to change profiles in firefox than about:profiles. I am not sure what your solution is though, would you mind going into details ? Thanks in advance
I launch my FF profiles from the terminal using aliases. But I guess some people would find that difficult (though it's not) even if they do happen to be a Linux user.
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You might need to get your vision checked. Each tab in a container gets a colored top border. And it's sizeable.
> And it's sizeable. Can you go into a little more detail about how to resize it?
Sizeable means large. It's not the same as being able to resize it.