Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by woolvalley on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:56PM (#18737446)

I use the containers add on, and it's pretty much the only real advantage FF has over chrome.

Still need user switching although, because sometimes I want to separate multiple google/twitter/etc accounts for example and still want the automatic url-based container activation.

If brave implemented containers although, I would probably use it because chrome works better than FF.

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Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by jeroenhd on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:29PM (#18738014)

If you run Firefox with the -P command line argument, a profile selection screen comes up in which you can create multiple profiles. These are completely separated (down to the HSTS state!) "accounts".

I don't know how MacOS works, but if you set your Firefox shortcut to firefox -P you can switch profiles by restarting Firefox. Granted, it's not as nice as Chrome, but it might still be of worth to you in some way.

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Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by woolvalley on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:31PM (#18738022)

I know about the -P command, that is why I was referencing the -no-remote option ;) Firefox has multi-user, it's just janky.

You have to double click on your special shortcut with the command line option, and if some other program tries to open a url with firefox as the default browser with the -no-remote / -P command, then it will just not work if you have all users open.

While with chrome it's 2 clicks away and no edge cases making other apps opening urls not work.

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