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Ask HN: Why are there no profiles on Android browsers?
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3 points
by Backslasher
1090 days ago
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I'm a heavy user of user profiles on Firefox[1] and Chrome[2].
They allow complete separation of addons, history, cookies, settings between one profile and another.
I use them to separate my work context from private life context, and recently different aspects from each other (e.g. different workplaces, project research).
I can't find these features in Android browsers. The best I have is using different browsers instead of different profiles, but it's nowhere as convenient. My best theories are:
1. Android forbids creating some sort of profile management inside an app, either with playstore rules or technically (can't dynamically choose a cookie store)
2. Mobile browser development is done completely separately from non-mobile ones, and this is not a priority for the dev teams for some reason. Do you have any insight? Is this a need shared by others or is it just me? [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
[2] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824 |
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Smartphones never need a sysadmin because all weird things are either prohibited or so easy to set up that a child can do it, no third option. I am travelling often to my friends and often I use to borrow their laptop/desktop while living in their apartments and the friends always borrow to me their PCs/Macs with ease. But nobody ever borrowed me their phone because every such a device in active use is having so much personal information that everybody is always super-bothered about something might just appear in push notifications and compromise some very personal part of their life to me.