Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips
by johnnyworker on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:09PM
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Also, adding the option "-no-remote" allows you to open a new profile that way when Firefox is already running.
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips
by nerdponx on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @03:42PM
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Great, so why I can't just do this from within the Firefox UI in a nice way? I use terminal/CLI stuff all the time, but when it comes to my GUI desktop I would rather avoid this kind of messing around. Plus, it's definitely not going to get people to switch from Chrome.
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips
by asciimov on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:08PM
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Eh... just from reading this comments section and the way people would want to use profiles (instead of containers), I'm ok with the feature being obfuscated.
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips
by littlestymaar on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:23PM
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You can, just go to the `about:profiles` page.
> Plus, it's definitely not going to get people to switch from Chrome.
Given that it's only enabling multiple profiles that require such a step (afterward you get a GUI prompt at start-up), you just Google “how to Firefox profiles” once, follow the steps and call it a day. In fact, most people would need to do the same googling if they wanted to use multiple chrome profiles as well…
This will create a separate firefox instance running with that profile. It's not as nice as having a button in firefox to accomplish this, but if you use different shortcuts or keyboard commands to launch things it works quite well.