• DriftingDeep@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Genuine question: I use brave currently. I really heavily on multiple profiles (work, side-business, personal) that are easy to switch between or have active all at the same time in separate windows.

    I tried firefox, but in my experience, the method for changing “profiles” was unintuitive and cumbersome. Was I just doing it wrong, or does Firefox not have that same kind of feature?

    I really wanna use Firefox, but that’s a deal-breaker.

    • Sub-Aquatic Helicopter@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There are a few ways! I have separate Firefox profiles for everything.

      The least effort way is to visit about:profiles, then you get a list of them all and can add/remove them. I have it bookmarked or pinned as a tab in all of my different profiles.

      Second, but takes more effort is you can make desktop or start menu shortcuts to the profiles. In short (on windows at least) you copy the Firefox shortcut, edit it, then add -p “Profile Name”. There might be more to it? Maybe good to Google this one for a better description. But I literally have a start menu shortcut for all like 7 of mine, then it’s just like launching a different application.

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        1 year ago

        Or have a shortcut that has something like this as its target:
        "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" --ProfileManager --allow-downgrade -no-remote
        This just opens the profile manager every time. The only caveat is that you have to click “launch” every time as there’s no timeout. But I also do have an autohotkey script that does the timeout for me, pressing “enter” after 30s.

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      1 year ago

      Plus Firefox has the same problem that Chrome does. And that problem is the shit ton of ads that pop up every goddamn place.

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        1 year ago

        That’s why you install an adblocker like uBlock Origin in Firefox. The browser isn’t responsible for blocking ads, that’s what add-ons are for.

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        1 year ago

        This isn’t a browser issue, it’s an Internet issue. And it’s easily fixed on Firefox.