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A comment on Firefox Multi-Account Containers.

Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers by DoubleMalt on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:29AM (#15257931)
That might bring make me bring back part of my browsing to Firefox. The identities functionality was what made me use Chrome almost exclusively the last two years.
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Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers by Manishearth on Friday September 15, 2017 @01:10PM (#15258823)
Chrome doesn't have this. Chrome has profiles, which Firefox has had for years.
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Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers by foobar20198 on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:37PM (#15259543)
Switching between profiles in Firefox is the most painful experience ever. Running multiple Firefox profiles simultaneously requires using a terminal command.

Switching between profiles in Chrome involves clicking on an easy to find button, and lets you easily run multiple profiles in parallel. No terminal involved, accessible to anyone.

To be fair, running multiple chrome profiles in parallel kills my (somewhat old) machine (mostly by virtue of having too many tabs in each profile), so Firefox does win there.

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Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers by poiru on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:33PM (#15260067)
Check out about:profiles! While not nearly as nice as the Chrome UI, it is definitely more approachable than using a terminal.
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