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I'm happy this is getting a new UI. Always been a pain to use compared to Chrome profiles. Profiles WITH container tabs is pretty killer, dont' think Chrome has anything like this.
Why'd you use profiles and containers together?
I've been using this hack for a while now: Firefox developer edition as my "work" profile and the regular Firefox for personal browsing.
(Fun fact, you can even switch to the Developer Edition default profile from regular Firefox with the -ProfileManager though that is not generally a good idea because Developer Edition is intentionally a half-step version or two ahead of "retail" Firefox. Developer Edition assumes you don't mind being a little bit closer to the bleeding edge. Still not the same as using Firefox Nightly as your daily driver, but still often a "power user preview" version.)
Wanted this for years, and was one of the blockers that made Firefox impossible to really use. It looks like they're copying Chromium's UI (which is good, since it was superior to Firefox's about:profiles, for reasons others have mentioned). But neither this post, nor the splash screen which links to this, nor any of the menu options, actually say how to use "profiles". I can't find it in an internet search either, i…
What do you mean? Firefox has had profiles for decades. What is wrong with the Profile Manager?
This update seems to fix those problems, by copying Chromium's UX.
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> But that will not work as expected if you have more than one profile (which is the whole point). At present the only workable solution is to fiddle with a GUI thru `about:profiles` (or `firefox --ProfileManager`) in order to create the profiles and give them all-important UIDs. FWIW, that's only true if you care about it having those IDs and being exposed to the graphical interface. If you don't, then you can just…
But that script won't work if you need to open subsequent new windows in particular profiles. PS: probably. It's possible there was a fix. The GUI setup remains unscriptable.
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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.)
I really like the "Always Open Site in Container" along with "Limit to Designated Sites" once it's set up, but I wish there was a way to make it accept wildcards otherwise I have to manually add localhost:8080, localhost:8081, etc. Manually adding a dozen or more becomes painful.
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In Windows 10 I have shortcuts pinned to my taskbar that are just > ...firefox.exe" -P "profilename" and then `taskbar.grouping.useprofile true` so only windows from the same profile are grouped together and some custom recolored Firefox icons for those pinned shortcuts and custom per-profile userChrome.css styling (#TabsToolbar background-color) for easy visual differentiation of a window's profile. For Windows 10,…
>from terminal [opening URLs in instances using profile paths] works exactly as expected regardless of how many profile instances are currently running or their state. That's interesting. It didn't work a couple of years ago, perhaps it's been fixed. Still leaves that initial GUI profile setup.
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Agree, containers are exactly what I want and I use them all the time. Profiles are too much isolation, like installing separate VMs to run processes in a completely isolated way when something like Docker is fine.
The key element here is switching windows across profiles. Safari almost gets this right but fails in the UI imho. Edge has "workspaces" that could almost work but they don't provide isolation.
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> Firefox profiles suck. Their UX is so bad. That's what these changes aim to fix. You're getting a Chromium-like profile switcher/manager. > Containers are better Containers are very good... for container stuff. Profiles allow us to have different bookmarks, settings, extensions, themes, etc. Different tools for different jobs. I use both!
What are you all talking about? What is wrong with the existing ProfileManager?
You can still use the old profile manager. At the pace Mozilla moves, it will be there for years.
Finally. I know that profiles have been supported for a long time, but about:profiles wasn't that user friendly and on macOS, profiles could also mess your dock icon, wouldn't open in the foreground, etc. It wasn't a good experience. I think the new profiles will cause some confusion (at least initially) because these profiles are not listed on the old about:profiles page and the old profiles are not listed on the ne…
./firefox -CreateProfile "profile-name /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile-path/"
./firefox -profile "/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile-path/"
Disclaimer: I don't use macOS, but I'm sure it's similar to Linux in that regard. You'll need to change paths, of course.