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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by kentonv on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:35PM (#18048570)
I feel like there's some implied assumption here that this change lets Google do something evil that they couldn't do before, but I don't really see what.

If you're logged into Google properties (independent of browser), Google can already track you across most of the internet, via their Ads and Analytics embedded in a rather large percentage of web sites. If you don't want Google to track you on non-Google web sites, then you really need to use separate browser profiles (or separate browsers). Have one profile for Google properties and a separate one for other things.

Ironically, Chrome has really good multi-profile support. It's easy to have different Chrome windows running different profiles, each of which has all its own settings, storage, login state, etc. Give each one a different theme to make it easy to tell which profile you're using.

Firefox has a concept of profiles but AFAICT you can only run one profile at a time. :(

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by pcwalton on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:56PM (#18048646)
Firefox has containers that allow you to effectively run multiple profiles at once.
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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by kentonv on Saturday September 22, 2018 @09:30PM (#18048928)
Oh, nice! I failed to discover "containers" when I searched for "firefox profiles"; maybe someone should add a link from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Mul... ...
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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by TheDong on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:17PM (#18049039)
> Firefox has a concept of profiles but AFAICT you can only run one profile at a time. :(

You can have one primary firefox instance, and any number of instances that have the "--no-remote" flag set, each running different profiles. Any links you click outside of firefox (e.g. xdg-open) will use the primary firefox.

The 'firefox --no-remote -P' trick has worked for longer than chrome has existed and I've been using it to juggle about 15 profiles since firefox 3, usually having 4 different firefox instances open with 4 different profiles.

The more user-friendly way to do this is with firefox containers though.

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by pastununtrium on Sunday September 23, 2018 @03:51AM (#18049936)
What is the memory hit though. Do the separate profile processes share some of the library memory or do they each reuse a lot of memory. I’d assume chrome profiles being natively supported via a easy GUI means the separate profile processes are able to share memory??
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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by JoshMnem on Saturday September 22, 2018 @08:28PM (#18048726)
You can run multiple Firefox profiles at the same time, each with multiple containers.

For multiple profiles (for different combinations of browser extensions), I use this:

    alias ff='firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote &'
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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by idiomatic1 on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:44PM (#18048604)
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...
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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by dannyw on Sunday September 23, 2018 @01:36AM (#18049560)
Not if you have an ad blocker, that blocks analytics and advertising beacons.
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