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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

The interface is a bit rough but Firefox actually has profiles just like Chrome. This from my work Thinkpad.

Have been converting once again to Firefox from Chrome only because I want to use at least the same browser in every platform and aarch64 has only Firefox (i.e. my Mac mini).

This is how I usually switch between Chrome and Firefox: a dead-end comes and I switch to the other.

Last time I switched to Chrome was because of broken WebMIDI support in Firefox, which now fully works with Novation hardware so the browser table tennis continues.

#firefox #chrome #ping #pong
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aldonogueira@hachyderm.io

aldonogueira

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@jarkko i think Firefox doesn't have profiles so accessible is because the feature they propose is containers. One can have multiple account logged in on the same site using containers. I like it better than chrome profiles

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@aldonogueira I've put link to "about:profiles" to every profile as the first link in the toolbar. Makes it relatively convenient in the end of the day.
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@aldonogueira This is anyway my end game with these dominating browsers: both suck in their own ways :-) So I use the other until it fails me... Not really fan of either.
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MsDropbear425@infosec.exchange

Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀archlinux kde zenbrowser thunderbird🦘vegan​

Reply to @aldonogueira@hachyderm.io

@aldonogueira @jarkko Profiles & Containers are entirely separate use-cases, with very important technical & UX differences. They are not functionally interchangeable, & using one does not negate nor replace the other. I actively use both, all day all week.

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MsDropbear425@infosec.exchange

Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀archlinux kde zenbrowser thunderbird🦘vegan​

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@jarkko Fwiw, in case you might not yet know, both & have built-in native profile switcher buttons, & they work very well.

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aldonogueira@hachyderm.io

aldonogueira

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@MsDropbear425 @jarkko Cool! I was wondering. What a profile does that can't be done with a container? Hum, while i was typing i thought one difference: the bookmarks and history are shared when you use a container. If you really want to isolate a new profile is better

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MsDropbear425@infosec.exchange

Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀archlinux kde zenbrowser thunderbird🦘vegan​

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@aldonogueira @jarkko Everything... everything... can be setup differently in your different Profiles. Different bookmarks, different cookie management policy, different themes, different AddOns, different session management, different security & profile configs [including different user.js files], yada yada. Having different profiles is incredibly useful, once you turn your mind to the range of possibilities.

Within each profile, Container Tabs are extremely useful, but in no way do they substitute for profiles per se.

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