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SigmundurM | 6 months ago

Firefox now has improved Profile mangement

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

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_345|6 months ago

Firefox profiles are still janky and I had a lot of issue switching and managing two profiles effectively. Specifically the biggest problem I had was that clicking on work links would not open them in my last used profile (work profile). They would always open in a default profile (non-work).

I ended up keeping chrome just for work, and using firefox for personal life.

Then I grabbed Browser Tamer and set up an AHK v2 script that, when I click on and focus any browser window, it executes browser tamer's CLI to update the default browser. Thus I get the behavior of "open links in last used browser", which is the correct browser for whatever link I click 99.9% of the time.

wink|6 months ago

OK, that mental overhead of "last used browser" would drive me nuts.

My solution is: The system has a default browser that opens default links. On my work machine I have a different browser where I am for example logged in to my private github account I just never want to open a clicked link there anyway. Copy/pasting 2 times per day is fine.

diggan|6 months ago

I hope they don't get rid of `about:profiles` which is perfect for anything I wanted to do with profiles in the last decade.

cassianoleal|6 months ago

I'm on Firefox 142 and the "account icon" menu only has "Sign in", "Monitor", "Relay" and "Mozilla VPN". No mention of profiles.

Edit: found it: it's hidden behind the browser.profiles.enabled setting in about:config

monkey26|6 months ago

This initially excited me, but its pretty poor compared to what Chrome and Chrome based browsers provide.