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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by greggman on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:27AM (#17362887)
I just setup multiple profiles in chrome which is one thing it seems to do better than FF imo. You can select a profile in the top right corner. Everything about them is separate. cookies, history, extensions , theme so I give each one a different theme make it clear what profile I'm using.

in FF afaict you can only use one at a time and you have to choose at launch

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by Vinnl on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:03AM (#17363031)
You can use multiple profiles at the same time through about:profiles

That said, do try multi-account containers, unless you really rely on extensions and theme being different per profile - they're great: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by SnowingXIV on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:23AM (#17365373)
Your comment has convinced me to do this. This is pretty fantastic. It was driving me nuts being signed into both work and personal gmails to access either my files or adwords. Not to mention YouTube which would open under the work account sometimes or drive. Plus now I can rip out all the work bookmarks and shove that into a work only profile.

My only concern now is with using multiple devices. Do I just sign into to both profiles on each device? I only worry because there was a big snafu that occurred with their password manager that synced nothing and everything disappeared. (I no longer trust google with that stuff).

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by atombender on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:24PM (#17368465)
Chrome profiles are too coarse-grained: Not only is the entire window associated with that profile but each profile also has separate settings, histories, bookmarks, everything. All I'd want here are separate cookie spaces.

Firefox profiles are similar to Chrome's. But the container tabs that people are talking about in this thread are better than Chrome profiles. They're per tab, and last I checked they only separate out cookies and local storage.

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