[tajen]

..."Firefox profiles" fixed it very well. Same as Chrome profiles: I have one for my work persona, one for my personal persona, another for my sysadmin persona, and 3 others for... er... nevermind. But it works great.

Besides, 11 FAQ and a long blog post: I'm not sure they narrowed down the most focussed feature that would provide the most value and be used by the most number of users.

[BugsBunnySan]

Yeah, but afaik, switching those profiles in Firefox is (currently) really difficult. So much so that it almost feels the same as if you didn't have the capability to do it...

[sp332]

You can edit your shortcut or .desktop file to open "firefox -P" instead of "firefox". Each time you click it, it will ask which profile you want the new window to be in.

[lucb1e]

Had I known this earlier... I had the same reaction as the person you replied to, I hadn't thought of using profiles. I knew something called profiles existed, but I thought it was not in use anymore (at least not properly supported). I never connected the dots.

Still sounds like a pain to manage though, compared to this new feature.

[sp332]

Yeah it's not a great user interface, and it's definitely buried. Aside from the Developer Edition which uses a different profile by default, it seems to be ignored by Firefox devs. Probably because they don't want to support all the people who get confused by the terrible UI!

[y4mi]

can you open several profiles simultaneously as well?

[sp332]

Yes. Each window is stuck in one profile, but different windows can be in different profiles.

[BugsBunnySan]

oh, ok, that is pretty usefull actually!

[Fogest]

What I hate is that I can't have all these profiles tied to my Google account and have them all syncing with my Google account.