Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better

Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by nicoburns on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:03AM (#37954570)

I've been making a "browser switcher" which you can set as the default browser and you can pick which browser to open links in (using a UI similar to the alt-tab UI). I currently have it working with Chrome profiles, but I suspect Firefox profiles wouldn't be too hard (so long as you can open a link in a specific profile from the command line).

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Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by filcuk on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:41AM (#37954843)

That sounds awesome. Can you share your repo, if it's public?

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Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by nicoburns on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:16AM (#37955076)

The current version isn't really ready for public consumption right now I'm afraid (the current version has my favourite Chrome profiles hard coded, and some weird debug logging to a hard coded file location). But I have been meaning to clean up and release it. So perhaps I'll get around to that soon.

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Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by aruggirello on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:50AM (#37955359)

Great idea! I was thinking about something similar too. Having multiple browsers doesn't have to suck...and having to fiddle with galternatives or KDE systemsettings isn't ideal.

May I suggest you to add a small (and optional!) config file to automate your UI - like e.g.:

    [Sources]
    Telegram=chrome profile B
    Discord=epiphany

    [Destinations]
    https://www.google.com=firefox profile A

If the config is there, you'd then only show the UI when neither sources nor destinations match (regexes). This would make it a must have tool IMHO :)

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Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by nicoburns on Friday October 20, 2023 @09:51AM (#37955990)

Yes, I'd love to do that. There is in fact already an app that does this on macOs (https://github.com/johnste/finicky). And you can chain them so that finicky runs first and then calls a chooser UI "browser" as a fallback. But I would like to incorporate it into my app so that I don't have to run two apps (and so that I can make it work cross-platform).

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Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by Maarius on Friday October 20, 2023 @09:46AM (#37955908)

You can have a look at Choosy (https://choosy.app/) if a paid solution works for you. (Not affiliated at all, just a happy user).

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Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better by alwillis on Friday October 20, 2023 @01:25PM (#37958957)

+1 for Choosy for macOS.

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