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That is interesting. Googling "firefox open links in active profile" provides plenty of results about the same issue.

I do know there's a flag to launch the profile manager, but I find that to be a nuisance. I don't want to launch it every time, because I'm constantly launching and killing browser instances. Dedicated shortcuts cuts out that step, but in my case would require 5+ shortcuts via .desktop files on my Linux machine, and a matching set of icons on my Windows machine, with the mental overhead that comes from selecting and switching.

The extension is much closer to the behavior I want (Chrome's).

Conversely, I experience a frustrating Chrome bug on Linux, where after some amount of time, external links open a new instance of every profile, and an error window. I've had no luck troubleshooting that, and it helped motivate me to try Firefox again.

The biggest blocker for me has been the lack of convenient profile switching. It's an important part of my workflow to have a separate profile for home/work/other, with history, bookmarks, etc. Container tabs are not a good replacement. Worse, I get irritated with the fact that Firefox fully supports this under the hood, but seems to push back against actually implementing a convenient way to use it.

I'm currently doing my yearly attempt to switch, using the Profile Switcher extension [0]. It works well enough, but requires external software running and I fully expect it to break eventually. I also can't open links in anything but the default profile (vs Chrome opening in the profile most recently active, a nice convenience).

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

The PS2 was released as far from now, in 2000, as the Atari 2600 was to it, in 1977.

While my decisions seem to be handled via unconscious processes ahead of my conscious brain taking credit for them, I feel like what's often glossed over is what the effect is after that point. Presumably whether the conscious brain takes credit for an action of the physical body is feedback to those unconscious processes. When my consciousness notices my body doing things it doesn't take credit for (like, say, mindlessly putting the milk in the cupboard instead of the fridge), this should serve as a signal to the physical system that it failed to predict a decision the conscious brain would have made, had it the ability to do so.

So sure, maybe all my decisions are on rails, and I experience the illusion of having made them. But there's no reason to dismiss that illusion as immaterial. It can be thought of as a sanity check. A sort of after-the-fact free will for future unconscious processes to consider. Which in practice, feels exactly like the free will of having made the decision in the first place.