Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden

Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by wellthisisgreat on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:22PM (#28979355)

I would love to switch to FF but the persona tabs in Chrome are just too convenient. I have a persona for Work, for Personal and Neither (spammy stuff of things I don’t want to get indexed recommendation engines etc). Is there a way to replicate it on FF?

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by cpeterso on Sunday October 24, 2021 @02:53PM (#28980836)

You can manage and launch multiple Firefox user profiles using Firefox’s about:profiles page, though that UI is clunkier than Chrome’s.

Mozilla’s “Multiple Account Containers” extension can automate some of this. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by account-5 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:50PM (#28979637)

You can do that in two ways. Profiles and containers.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by kfprt on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:53PM (#28979669)

FF has container tabs which are infinitely superior to Chrome's.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by wellthisisgreat on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:54PM (#29034320)

Thank you, can you please elaborate - superior in what ways?

The Chrome profiles work really well for me but I’d love to learn about the alternative. Using Chrome is a bit of a guilt trip at this point.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by baggy_trough on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:57PM (#28979713)

I've used both and for me personally the Chome ones map better onto my brain.

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