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Re:Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017 by Manishearth on Saturday November 25, 2017 @02:11PM (#15777385)
Firefox has about:profiles; they work much the same but don't have as good a UI.

I prefer Container Tabs, which basically let you have profiles on a per-tab basis. So you can have some green tabs, some yellow tabs, and some pink tabs, and each is effectively a separate profile cookie-wise. This is a built in feature but I recommend using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... since it enhances it.

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Re:Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017 by konart on Sunday November 26, 2017 @03:37AM (#15780029)
They really need to imorove usability of this feature though. At the very least you should be able to move the existing tabs to a given container and add sites to some list to be opened in a given container by default.

Right now workflow is too inconvenient.

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Re:Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017 by Manishearth on Sunday November 26, 2017 @05:09AM (#15780231)
I believe the original test feature had something like this (maybe I'm misremembering) and the final release didn't. Maybe it's something they plan on polishing up and adding.
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