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Re:Container Tabs by Manishearth on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:07PM (#13451506)
Firefox has had multiple profiles for years too, though the UI isn't as nice as Chrome's. This is different, this is basically profiles that can sharethe same browser window.
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Re:Container Tabs by Touche on Saturday January 21, 2017 @07:18PM (#13452862)
Not as nice is a pretty big understatement. Here's the article that Mozilla links to about how to do it on OSX: http://spf13.com/post/managing-multiple-firefox-profiles-in-...

   /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --profilemanager
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Re:Container Tabs by kuschku on Sunday January 22, 2017 @08:07AM (#13455011)
Actually, just open about:profiles in the browser, and you can easily switch.
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Re:Container Tabs by cbsmith on Saturday January 21, 2017 @03:13PM (#13451856)
I'm not sure I understand the benefit of being able to share the same browser window.
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Re:Container Tabs by Manishearth on Saturday January 21, 2017 @05:58PM (#13452556)
I personally like keeping things in a single browser window, and find it super annoying when I have multiple windows. But I sometimes want to use a site whilst logged out or logged in to a different account, or just don't want to be tracked. across the web. It's nice to be able to do it all in one place. It also helps enforce a better discipline in keeping parts of your life (and thus your online identity) separate so that it's harder to track.
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Re:Container Tabs by cbsmith on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:23PM (#13476771)
Multiple windows sure seems like a clean visual signal that you are in a different privacy context...
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