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by _odey 1899 days ago
I don't but I can share a reason someone I know uses it instead of Firefox: profile switcher.

In Chrome you have pretty little button you click on that lists all your profiles in a nice looking way; with two actions you're done.

In Firefox, you have to type about:profiles, you get a horrendously looking list with all sorts of useless information, it's just a pain to access and look at.

Implement the same UX Chrome has for profiles in Firefox and you'll get more people on board.
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ncw96 1899 days ago
Not sure what your use case is, but Firefox’s containers might solve your problem with the older profile system: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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stuartd 1899 days ago
Containers are 1000 times better than profiles!
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_odey 1899 days ago
I'm afraid you're both wrong, containers are an add-on, profiles are a core functionality.

That person does not want something new, they just want to use their existing workflow, which is possible, but inconvenient due to bad UX and ugly UI. These are their words, not mine.

As a user of both containers and profiles in Firefox I have to agree with them. The UX needs to improve and the UI needs to be prettyfied.

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tmottabr 1899 days ago
container is a core functionality in Firefox, but it is mostly hidden away.

the add-ons are basically just the interfaces for you to access that core functionality.

If you don't want to trust the add-on developer just use the official one made by Mozila. It is the one i use.

https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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_odey 1898 days ago
This has nothing to do with trust, a profile gives you a different set of add-ons, bookmarks, search history, saved passwords, cache and cookies, a container only gives you a different set of cookies.
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tmottabr 1898 days ago
This does not change the fact that container is a core functionality in Firefox.. and for some using addon is a matter of trust.. Also does not change the fact that chrome does not have anything like it..

Additionally Firefix also have profiles as a core funtionality, it already had it before chrome even existed so it had it much longer then chrome had.. But again is mostly hidden away..

You can access it with the command below:

firefox -ProfileManager

But as with containers there are add-ons to make as easy as chrome to switch between profiles.. Although i don't think there is an official one by Mozilla..

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