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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by mod50ack on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:39AM (#10071875)
I've always thought the same. It'd be great to have a browser that allowed fully independent sessions to be running simulataneously
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by jitl on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:50AM (#10071899)
Chrome has this feature with dedicated profiles, and you can accomplish this in firefox pretty easily using some good extensions.
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by mod50ack on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:52AM (#10071909)
Yeah, but that's really a hassle and such a workaround shouldn't be required.

And firefox's extensibility is great as usual, but its bloat and the new UI and the ads on the tab pages disillusioned me

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by gamman on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:25AM (#10072009)
In chrome, you can make a shortcut for a profile by providing a flag --profile-directory="YourProfileName" It will be created if it doesn't exist and you can even set it to point to a TEMP folder for throwaways.
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by paulryanrogers on Monday August 17, 2015 @08:58AM (#10072628)
Firefox can do this with separate profiles too, so long as you also include --no-remote with other instances.
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