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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by eli on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:37PM (#15688790)
And prior to that you could run multiple Firefox instances with different profiles. Not super hard.
Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by nachtigall on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:56PM (#15689639)
> you could run multiple Firefox instances with different profiles

But not at the same time, which is a showstopper to me (still using Firefox Nightly as main browser).

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by rhn_mk1 on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:02PM (#15689689)
You can absolutely run multiple different instances at the same time.

I've been using Firefox this way for over a year, 2 instances open right now.

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by drdaeman on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:16PM (#15689806)
It is possible, but it's messy in terms of which one is the default (clicking on links outside of the browser), taskbar/launcher buttons (OS- and DE-dependent, some configurations have issues e.g. with pinning) etc. I think there was something else - minor and just slightly inconvenient - but I forgot.

Compared to ProfileManager, Container Tabs are absolutely awesome. Completely different experience, smooth and nice.

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by jakub_g on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:42PM (#15690034)
ProfileManager is a bit awkward indeed. You can pass `-p primaryprofile` and `-p secondaryprofile -no-remote` to make sure that links from OS are not opened in the 2nd instance, but then, when you close Firefox and click an external link, it will open Firefox with the last opened profile, which might be `secondaryprofile`.

The solution for me was to use one Firefox installation per profile: primary = stable, secondary = nightly.

Container tabs are way nicer than this, but since I open lots of tabs, I still like the distinction between stable and nightly (stable = regular browsing, nightly = FB).