• mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I use multiple profiles in chrome for my different logged in usages, for some reason Firefox makes it hard to switch profiles.

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      4 months ago

      it has something like ‘-no-remote -p name’ param on cmd that you can do it seamless like chromium, or u can use the fork of the drop official pwa firefox support, it could be better, i know n i get it, but if u just use chromium base for it, than i got u covered

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      4 months ago

      “Hard” is a strong word. It’s not built into the default interface, granted, but it’s not that hard to use FF’s command line: firefox -P

      They have said they’re thinking about rejigging the whole thing though.

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        4 months ago

        Ok, telling people to open a command line and TYPE firefox -P is HARD. In chrome you just click the icon in the upper right and select whatever profile you want.

        It makes no sense that you have to either open about:profiles then select “launch in new window” or open the command line to start a new profile, makes NO sense at all.

        You can open a firefox private window with a keyboard shortcut, but if you want to be logged into two different accounts in two different profiles, you have to go through a minimum of three non-intuitive steps.

        Even the extension that adds the profile switching doesn’t work anymore because it’s not maintained.

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          4 months ago

          Dude, if that’s all-caps HARD, then I don’t know how you’d classify, say, compiling things from source and fixing any problems that might crop up along the way. Or fixing missing DLL / OCX hell when trying to get an old Windows game running under Linux, because let me tell you, I’ve done both of those and had to give up. firefox -P is heaven by comparison.

          You could even put it into a shortcut and you wouldn’t have to type it any more.

          Yes the interface sucks, but HARD is not it.

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      4 months ago

      The profile manager is definitely annoying, but it shouldn’t be that hard to visit about:profiles to switch / open other profiles. Afaik they do work on a better one though.