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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

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The confusing part of this is there are now two distinct kinds of profiles: the old profiles that you create through about:profiles and the new profiles that you create in this profile switcher, which appear to be nested within the old profile

Not only confusing, but also kinda powerful: we now have three(!) levels of indirection: old profiles -> new profiles -> containers :)

Re: Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse

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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?

One scenario: have a profile for each client so that you can open any website in the context of your work for that client.

Containers then can be used to separate multiple logins into the same website: e.g. you're testing a multi-user app and want to login as admin and user at the same time - containers make that easy without having to mess with incognito/private modes (those will forget your login as soon as you close them).

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