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Most user won't even be aware of the possibility of using profiles, ask any of your relatives. While if you had a "Create a new profile" button that does it in one step and that they would advertise on install much more people would be using it, even if it's just for family members separation.
Old Netscape/Firefox builds used to start with the Profile creation/selection screen by default (which is the -ProfileManager CLI option that remains today) and someone can correct me if I am wrong, but the consensus seemed to be that it confused people more than it helped them. The majority of people already separate family members with different user accounts on the machine or mostly just don't seem to care. This s…
In the old days, seperate profiles were used to seperate Moms browsing from Dad's browsing. Now, we need different profiles to browse: one for shopping, one for banking, one for work...
Seems to me that coders forget that people evolve. Same with Moxie saying that it is fine for WhatsApp not ticking the 'tell me when the key changed'-box by default because that confuses people. Perhaps it /did/ confuse people, when security was not a known issue. People tend to learn, in my experience. You can't say: "Well, we did an A/B test in 2002 and now we're done for the next millenium."