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Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by mjfisher on Friday October 20, 2023 @02:51AM (#37953095)
That's a useful tip. I need access to several Microsoft live/AD/teams accounts, and they just don't work well in the same browser session.

I've been using chrome profiles to separate these because the Firefox ones were a little clunky; for some reason it never occurred to me to create shortcuts per profile. Thanks!

Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by remedan on Friday October 20, 2023 @03:00AM (#37953149)
Have you tried the Multi-Account Containers? It sounds like they might work even better for your use case.

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

Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by Lukas_Skywalker on Friday October 20, 2023 @03:04AM (#37953175)
I do this, exactly for the mentioned case. It's even easier than switching profiles, and you can select the container on a per tab basis.
Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by ta8903 on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:13AM (#37953514)
Containers with a vertical tab manager (like Sidebery) are chef's kiss, you can create separate tab panels for each container (and configure a container to open in a certain tab panel) so you get even more differentiation of context for each container.
Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by happymellon on Friday October 20, 2023 @03:03AM (#37953172)
Yeah, I used to have the same issue with AWS because they kept your account in your session. Having containers for these things is much better than multiple profiles.

But for other things, profiles are far superior.

Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by starfallg on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:07AM (#37953489)
As you mentioned this, there is now a Firefox add-on that automatically creates the containers from the AWS SSO landing page as you click into your various accounts. It removes the need to create them manually with the Multi Account Containers add-on.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/aws-sso-conta...

Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by happymellon on Friday October 20, 2023 @05:33PM (#37961807)
That's cool, although different to what I was referring to. I could totally have used this in a previous role.