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by bennyz 2367 days ago
I am still missing chrome-like profiles
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Firefox does have support for multiple profiles. You just to need to set it up.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

Also if you want to prompt what profile to use every time you use firefox just add -P like this "firefox.exe -P" in your shortcut/softlink or script that starts firefox.

It just doesn't have usable profile switching. Sounds like something a competent engineer should be able to implement in a week, yet users have been begging for it for a decade and it's still not there. This is the only thing that holds me on Chrome.
try about:profiles
I think his point is that if you have to do about:profiles, then that's not usable for a lot of people. Having something that works like containers is a lot more usable: click, select profile.
My point is that about:profiles improves upon -P. But cf. their other post, they're actually after containers, not profiles.
See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Whereas in Chrome I _don't have to_ "try about:profiles".

The very basic requirement for me is this: I want to completely separate my "work" internet from my "personal" internet, yet I also want to be able to easily switch between the two. Firefox makes this unnecessarily difficult and un-ergonomic.

Containers in Fx makes this super-easy, try it out.
They do not allow for complete separation of "work" and "personal" internet. They literally show both in the same window.
I installed 2 Firefox apps at the same time in my Mac, one for work and one for personal. How to do that? First, install Firefox and in Applications, rename Firefox.app to My-personal-Firefox.app . Then, install Firefox again, it will be Firefox.app. Here is what I did with FirefoxNightly, but it's possible to do so with Firefox: https://imgur.com/a/Zy2iDkK (note: for more convenience, I have changed the app's icon)
Have you tried Multi-Account Containers? It’s not the same but for me it works (I want to be logged in with various accounts on the same website)
Multi-account containers is the reason why I'm using Firefox.

Too bad it is just an extension and not a first-class feature. The settings are not synced with other Firefox settings. Somewhat annoying as there is lot of work to setup the container settings if you happen loose then.

Containers are nice and I use them, but unfortunately they are not enough since they are not synced and don't solve the bookmarks issue
I actually prefer the multi-account containers to chrome's profile approach.
Containers?