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Re:Firefox 93 by BiteCode_dev on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @11:06AM (#28760471)
If you want the exact equivalent, use Firefox profiles (-p at startup, or install the profile switcher addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...).

But Firefox has a much better feature: tab containers. You can attach a label to a tab, and only tabs sharing this label will share states, such as cookies, cache, localstorage and so on. This means you don't need to open a new window. You can have 2 HN accounts with each a different user logged in, in 2 tabs, next to each other, distinguishable with a color.

You can use it by activating a few settings in about:config (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers#w_for-advanc...), but the easiest way it to use the addon : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multi-account-co...

Re:Firefox 93 by pulsarmx on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:29PM (#28764424)
Tab Containers are a nice feature, but aren't quite there yet. For example, history is currently not isolated per container:

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283320

Multiple browser profiles also let me have one profile for work, another one for personal stuff, and yet another one only with stuff like vue/react/svelte dev tools and remote debugging enabled, and _then_ decide which one to open at any given time. This instead of opening every container at once, or something like selectively opening a bunch of bookmarks manually into a specific container (I use buku to manage and sync my bookmarks too, so no tab container support there).

Re:Firefox 93 by intelMgmntEnema on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:06PM (#28761338)
>>>You can use it by activating a few settings in about:config

Not. On. Android.

Re:Firefox 93 by BiteCode_dev on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:54PM (#28762066)
Can you have 2 different profiles on chrome opens at the same time on android?