[alargemoose]

I’ve always thought the long running “Multi-Account Containers” in Firefox was a better implementation of this idea than having to switch profiles and open a whole new window, when often what I need is a tab or two for a profile other than the one I’m in. You can even configure proxies to run on a per-container basis if that’s useful. But I can certainly understand wanting to better separate what your working on then just tabs with colored indicators to remind you which is which at a glance.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

[luuurker]

Recommending containers as a replacement for profiles is a bit like recommending a wheel as a replacement for a car.

Containers do one thing very well and are very useful, but they don't let you have different bookmarks, add-ons, themes, settings, sync, etc.

[apocalyptic0n3]

Those are useful but they lack the ability to have profile-specific history and bookmarks. I have a completely different set of bookmarks for Home and Work use and would never dream of mixing the two. Profiles are the only way to deal with that, but profiles are themselves difficult to work with.

[loa_in_]

Why not have Home and Work directories im bookmarks? That accomplishes about the same.

[Nab443]

Sometimes you don't want to sync your work bookmarks with your personal account, but have both on your work laptop... or vixe versa

[bwat48]

Containers is not a replacement for profiles, they are completely separate use cases. Those who use multi-profile do so because they want separate bookmarks, settings, etc (e.g. personal profile vs work profile)... which containers cannot do.