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Switching from Chrome to Firefox
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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can directly launch a firefox profile with "firefox -p 'profile-name'" This will create a separate firefox instance running with that profile. It's not as nice as having a button in firefox to accomplish this, but if you use different shortcuts or keyboard commands to launch things it works quite well.
Also, adding the option "-no-remote" allows you to open a new profile that way when Firefox is already running.
That's a good call on Windows systems, or -new-instance depending on usage.
In my linux setup, I removed the -no-remote option for some forgotten reason.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, adding the option "-no-remote" allows you to open a new profile that way when Firefox is already running.
Great, so why I can't just do this from within the Firefox UI in a nice way? I use terminal/CLI stuff all the time, but when it comes to my GUI desktop I would rather avoid this kind of messing around. Plus, it's definitely not going to get people to switch from Chrome.
Eh... just from reading this comments section and the way people would want to use profiles (instead of containers), I'm ok with the feature being obfuscated.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#204My Profiles tips: 1. You can have multiple profile sessions running at the same time. 2. It is best to theme your alt profiles with a different color so you don't confuse them. For example, green one is for one profile and the red one another. 3. "firefox -p 'profile-name'" launches directly into a profile 4. "firefox -p 'profile-name' -private-window" launches a profile in a private window 5. I use keybindings on li…
Why do you not use containers?
I do use containers on my main profile.
Containers are for separating websites from one another, while profiles are for separating browser bits from one another. This includes settings, plugins, extensions, themes, bookmarks, snippets, password managers, etc.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, adding the option "-no-remote" allows you to open a new profile that way when Firefox is already running.
Great, so why I can't just do this from within the Firefox UI in a nice way? I use terminal/CLI stuff all the time, but when it comes to my GUI desktop I would rather avoid this kind of messing around. Plus, it's definitely not going to get people to switch from Chrome.
You can, just go to the `about:profiles` page.
> Plus, it's definitely not going to get people to switch from Chrome.
Given that it's only enabling multiple profiles that require such a step (afterward you get a GUI prompt at start-up), you just Google “how to Firefox profiles” once, follow the steps and call it a day. In fact, most people would need to do the same googling if they wanted to use multiple chrome profiles as well…
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
The profile UX on Chrome is almost as horrible as it is on Firefox from a user's perspective, namely you need to reinstall all your addons and have no shared history so you need to check twice every time you're looking for something. The only difference is that on Chrome, it's the only way to have two different accounts on the same site, whereas on Firefox you generally don't need it unless you need the highest level…
Profiles and Containers are different things. If more people understood this, we would be asking for better profile support on Firefox and for container support on Chromium, not suggesting containers to people who need profiles or trying to use profiles as if they were tab containers. I want profiles because they provide exactly what you mentioned: separation. I need different extensions, bookmarks, history, etc. And…
If you want profiles and not containers, you can use profiles too in Firefox, it works well (I do it on the shared family computer). It's just not what most people use profiles for in Chrome, which lacks the separation between profiles and container.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#207I feel this article almost do more harm than good. It paints a picture that you need to "sacrifice" something to use Fx and lists various "problems". For instance it mentions how troublesome it is to use profiles as a "problem". Don't. Use containers. Hundred times more smooth than profiles. Hence why no one cares about making profiles in Fx better, there is already a better solution to the problem profiles solve. Ne…
I will say the process for creating a new container per website is bad. * Create new container "target" * Open new Target container * Go to target.com * Click the container menu and choose "Always open in..." and if you have a lot of containers, scroll down to "Target" And then, you still get asked "Hey, you told us to open this in the target container, is that correct?" even though I have *explicitly* said that's ex…
Click the multi-container tab. Click "open in new tab". Then pick the container. This will give you a blank page in container. Type the url. Boom! The site url will now be attached to that container.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#208Do people live in their browsers like that? I find it useful to keep both. 95% of the time I'm in Firefox, as one should be -- with all the good adblockers etc. And for the 5% unavoidable garbage of "things I must use/sign up for in life" that don't implement things properly, including Zoom, I keep Chrome around.
If you or a random reader is on MacOS, try out Orion - a Safari fork that has support for both Chrome AND Firefox plug-ins. I can't stop using Safari... I know, I'm a dying breed, and people at work were (and still are) a bit weirded out by it, but if you're like me, Orion is a very nice alternative if you want "real" adblockers (and 10000s of other plugins) at your disposal!
Does it support syncing? I have a MacBook but I mainly use my Windows desktop as well as an Android phone, all with Firefox.
Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#209Why the big panda at the top, i dont get it.
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Re: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
#210I feel this article almost do more harm than good. It paints a picture that you need to "sacrifice" something to use Fx and lists various "problems". For instance it mentions how troublesome it is to use profiles as a "problem". Don't. Use containers. Hundred times more smooth than profiles. Hence why no one cares about making profiles in Fx better, there is already a better solution to the problem profiles solve. Ne…
As a happy, longtime Firefox user, have to hard disagree here. > It paints a picture that you need to "sacrifice" something to use Fx and lists various "problems". Well yes, that was apparently the OP's feeling, along with the belief that overall, the "sacrifices" are worth it. So whether or not the issues felt important (or real) to you, they evidently were for the OP - and possibly other people who are considering…
> That's just "works on my machine". OP did have problems, they posted screenshots.
Well, it worked on their machine as well without their fixes. Chrome's font rendering is the one that's the most off from my system behavior, but the article makes it sound like Fx has broken fonts. While it's just a preference from the author.
> FF's download manager is missing a feature that OP actively used, which is drag and drop of downloaded files. So from that point of view, it's clearly a downgrade.
No, it supports that. I use it all the time.
> If users have issues with a software, I think it makes a better impression to pick them up from where they are than to do some "there are no problems, move along, citizen" approach.
My point was that this isn't issues so much as things just being slightly different. When framed as "problems" it however paints them negatively, as if Fx way of doing things are somehow "wrong". That's my issue with the article, not that it points these things out.