A profile for each site you visit by default please
Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
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Re: Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
#152Profiles are great. I've used them for years. Much better than containers, which separate your data sort-of-but-not-quite. A profile folder has everything . You can copy it, back it up, plug it into a completely new Firefox installation later. That portability is a killer feature, but scriptability needs to be improved. The manual says you can do: >`firefox --profile Start with profile at ` But that will not work as…
Tip: Use --no-remote to run a second instance of Firefox with a separate profile.
Otherwise it tends to just spawn a new window in the existing instance.
Re: Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
#153A profile for each site you visit by default please
Profiles isolate settings, bookmarks, history, etc.
It’s not feasible to isolate these “per site”.
Re: Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
#154They should make it a bit more clear they added features that were not there before and what, as it is not clear to me what has changed from before that I tried using them. Apparently it seems better now, but no wonder most commenters do not realise this is about some new features not about the old.
What’s new now? Just the UI for picking profiles? The article contains absolutely no details.
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#155Is there a quick way to copy some bookmarks from one firefox profile to another? Drag and drop from bookmark library popup window (ctrl+shift+o) in profileA to equivalent window in profileB fails.
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#156Profiles rock. When I was WFH I had a work profile and a personal profile. Password manager synced across the two profiles, really slick experience honestly. I do wish you could change sync settings on a per-profile basis though.
You can change sync settings on a per-profile basis. I have 6 profiles, 4 of which I synchronize between different computers. They use different sync accounts. So for example on my personal profile I sync the passwords but not on the work profile.
Hmm. I turned on bookmark sync in one profile, and my bookmarks on all my profiles slowly merged together over the course of ~5 minutes. Very annoying.
Re: Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
#157Profiles are great. I've used them for years. Much better than containers, which separate your data sort-of-but-not-quite. A profile folder has everything . You can copy it, back it up, plug it into a completely new Firefox installation later. That portability is a killer feature, but scriptability needs to be improved. The manual says you can do: >`firefox --profile Start with profile at ` But that will not work as…
> Much better than containers, which separate your data sort-of-but-not-quite What is better depends on the use case. For me, containers are magic, because I can be logged into eg 2-3 different microsoft accounts simultaneously in the same window. With profiles or other browsers I would need to open a different window for each, which would be unnecessary and impractical. This is extremely convenient for me, container…
This combined with "Always Open Site in Container", that pins a site to a specific container makes it almost invisible to me when moving between profiles.
I have several sites I only want to open with specific profiles and this workflow is a pain with Chrome. (click link with wrong profile, copy url, close tab, open a new browser, select profile, paste url, open site with correct profile.)
Re: Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
#158Profiles are great. I've used them for years. Much better than containers, which separate your data sort-of-but-not-quite. A profile folder has everything . You can copy it, back it up, plug it into a completely new Firefox installation later. That portability is a killer feature, but scriptability needs to be improved. The manual says you can do: >`firefox --profile Start with profile at ` But that will not work as…
Yessss, I've been wondering how to script different FF profiles (just haven't had enough time/motivation). That was the only thing holding me back from making it my daily driver.
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Re: Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
#160They should make it a bit more clear they added features that were not there before and what, as it is not clear to me what has changed from before that I tried using them. Apparently it seems better now, but no wonder most commenters do not realise this is about some new features not about the old.
What’s new now? Just the UI for picking profiles? The article contains absolutely no details.
Yeah, that is exactly the problem.
So far I see that it is easier to create/open/swap between different profiles (before the easiest way was literally the terminal). There is a small icon next to firefox dock icon on macos for each profile that you can choose, which I do not remember before. So you can easily distinguish which icon corresponds to which profile window. And that you can edit the theme for each profile easier.