An Update on Firefox Containers

Re:An Update on Firefox Containers by adrianratnapala on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @08:36PM (#15405989)

Hmm, I find it odd that you want cross-noise in your autocompletes. I use the things for doing personal browsing on work machines and find them very convenient.

But on Firefox it seems totally unusable because of near misses in UI. I haven't found a nice menu for switching between profiles, or a way of getting a list of available profiles short of rooting about in my settings. The default profile is can change itself in strange, and will only sometime coincide with the profile called "default".

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Re:An Update on Firefox Containers by asfdsfggtfd on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:22AM (#15407732)

The thing you are looking for is about:profiles

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Re:An Update on Firefox Containers by throwaway613834 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @08:53PM (#15406051)

I think you misunderstood what I said (might have been since I wasn't too clear on this in my comment). I wasn't criticizing the profile feature itself. Profiles are fantastic for your use case. I was criticizing using profiles for THIS use case (i.e. substituting for containers). They simply don't substitute for the container feature; they solve different problems. One is for separation of concerns and one is for privacy/security. The two sometimes affect each other but they're not the same concerns.

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