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by anfilt 2368 days ago
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.

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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 consider that a feature. Nothing stops you from only using a single and different container per window, though.