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Re:Firefox 93 by Liquid_Fire on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @10:56AM (#28760349)
Firefox has supported this for decades, it just doesn't have a very nice UI for managing it.

Simply start it with "firefox -P" and create two separate profiles (call them "work" and "personal"). Then just start two instances of Firefox, with "firefox -P work" and "firefox -P personal". They will be totally isolated - cookies, history, addons, everything.

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Re:Firefox 93 by anonymousab on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:09PM (#28761366)
The UX for profiles is fairly awful compared to chrome. There's a web extension to make things better but it requires a companion application.

Ideally they'd expose more options through web extension APIs or build in a native profile switcher in the main ui rather than as a command line flag and a dedicated about: page. It'd also be cool if the account containers could be customized to behave like profiles e.g. isolate history, but that gets a classic "we need to do this yak shave first" response whenever it gets brought up.

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Re:Firefox 93 by flurdy on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:59PM (#28762127)
There is also "about:profiles". Granted not pretty like Chrome profiles but it is there.

For me, one profile with "Temporary Containers" and "Multi-Account Containers" works well enough.

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