Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better

Re:Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a littl... by arendtio on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:30AM (#23270935)

For such use cases I use different browser profiles. It is a bit tiresome to set up, but afterward it works.

For example, I have a profile for watching videos via Amazon and Netflix, which uses dark mode and some high-resolution extensions, but not tree-style-tabs which I use with my normal browser profile.

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Re:Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a littl... by karyon on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:54AM (#23271114)

For a non-mainstream-feature I thought that rather easy. Open about:profiles, click "create new profile", enter a name, and then use the "Launch profile in new browser" buttons on that page to use that profile.

I have one for work and one for non-work and it's great!

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Re:Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a littl... by arendtio on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:48AM (#23271455)

In addition, you might want to add an entry to your system menu or place shortcut somewhere to start a new instance:

  /usr/bin/firefox -P my-profile --no-remote

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Re:Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a littl... by unqueued on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:57AM (#23280334)

If you want more fine grained control, check out https://github.com/dyne/tinfoil

I actually have some scripts for managing not just profiles but extensions. Hopefully I can get it cleaned up in time to put on Github.

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Re:Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a littl... by sudhirkhanger on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:15AM (#23272988)

Profiles are cumbersome in Firefox. Chrome has much better support for Profiles.

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