Mastodawn

If you use #Chrome specifically for the multiple profiles (as I have), you can come home to #Firefox with the Multi-Account Containers extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Firefox Multi-Account Containers – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Firefox Multi-Account Containers for Firefox. Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple accounts and integrate Mozilla VPN for an extra layer of privacy.

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MsDB 🦘♀🌈

Oct 5, 2023

@anaxamaxan No, i respectfully disagree. I see heaps of peeps allege this, but it's not correct. The use-case of #Firefox #ContainerTabs [which ARE wunnerful; no argument from me] is different to that for separate Profiles. Here's just some of the important things #Profiles in FF allow, but CT do not:

- separate #bookmarks
- separate cookie management policies
- separate `about:preferences`
- separate `about:config`
- separate #AddOns

et al [Telemetry, Service Workers, yada yada].

Both features are extremely useful, but with respect, in only the very narrowest sense do their #VennDiagrams overlap.

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anaxamaxan Oct 5, 2023

@MsDropbear84 Very good points! But I would wager 90+% of Chrome users don't use most of those features, and for those they do (bookmarks, addons) most tend to expect that they are available across profiles (or whatever). IMHO the privacy "improvements” Google has added to Chrome (and Alphabet’s general direction) make the sacrifice of some of the separation full separate profiles worth it to use Firefox as one's primary browser. Obviously, those who need

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anaxamaxan Oct 5, 2023

@MsDropbear84 …that level of separation (such as yourself, apparently) are likely going to know which browser is appropriate.

I work on web infra all day, and Firefox + Multi-Account Containers has been 100% adequate for what I do. YMMV.