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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by commoner on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:25PM (#34647224)
Try Profile Switcher for Firefox, which provides a Chrome-like interface for managing and switching between profiles in Firefox.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher

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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by r1cka on Friday February 03, 2023 @05:38PM (#34648798)
My problem is opening links from apps. Sometimes I want a link in Slack (or other desktop apps) to open in my personal profile and sometimes I want it to use my work profile. With Brave/Chrome, the link will open in whatever profile window is active. I can't find a way to make this work with Firefox.
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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by commoner on Saturday February 04, 2023 @10:08PM (#34661366)
Have you tried making a different desktop entry/shortcut for each Firefox profile and then setting a browser picker as your default browser?

- Junction (Linux browser picker): https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction

- Finicky (macOS browser rule setter): https://github.com/johnste/finicky and Browserosaurus (macOS browser picker): https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus

- Hurl (Windows browser picker): https://github.com/U-C-S/Hurl

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