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Re:Firefox 82 by coding123 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:00PM (#24838928)
Same here, My switch happened over the weekend. Still looking for a convenient way to have profiles that are like chromes user button, but overall I'm happy to escape Google's grip.
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Re:Firefox 82 by pricechild on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:21PM (#24839207)
I'm assuming you've seen https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account... ?

It doesn't work in exactly the same way - you don't by default get a different window per-profile. Instead, tabs get a different colour for each.

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Re:Firefox 82 by cpeterso on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:41PM (#24839502)
That Multi-Account Containers extension is awesome. My primary use case for Firefox container tabs is that I have separate Google accounts for personal and work stuff. With Multi-Account Containers, I can have Gmail and YouTube in Personal tabs and Google Calendar and Docs in Work tabs.

You can also use Firefox's about:profiles page can to open and manage different profiles in different windows in one running instance of Firefox.

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Re:Firefox 82 by db579 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:53PM (#24839647)
One of the benefits of Chrome's user profiles this misses is the ability to have separate bookmarks for different profiles (Personal & Work for example)
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Re:Firefox 82 by coding123 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:04PM (#24843600)
No, I hadn't - thank you (bow). Chrome is now buried in the backyard. (That's legal right?)
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Re:Firefox 82 by rorykoehler on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:11PM (#24839883)
This is the killer feature I can never drop now that I've started using it.
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