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Poll: Do you use browser profiles?

25 点作者 varun_ch7 个月前
Firefox is adding better profile UX (it’s currently behind a flag), but it also supports ‘container tabs,’ which can get you halfway there. Chrome, Safari, and Arc (and other Chromium-based browsers) support profiles natively as ‘first-class citizens.’<p>As someone who recently switched from Chrome → Arc → Firefox, and literally cannot live without browser profiles, I’m curious about how others use their browsers.

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modin7 个月前
Firefox Multi-Account Containers (&quot;container tabs&quot;) together with Temporary Containers[0]. Every tab is as isolated and ephemeral as possible unless there&#x27;s a need.<p>I also use profiles, for work and leisure. Mostly for differentiating extensions and the data they get access to (no container tabs at work, and very few extensions there overall), but also for bookmarks.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-GB&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;temporary-containers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-GB&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;temporary-con...</a>
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xrd7 个月前
Yes, I love profiles. I use them extensively with firefox. I can&#x27;t live without Firefox profiles (my use case does not work with Safari or Chrome).<p>I needed to use two tailscale networks on the same machine. And, since I&#x27;m crazy, I self-host using headscale, which means both must use the same IP block (100.64.0.x). How can this be possible on one machine?<p>I use lima to run a little container and inside that I have a secondary tailscale network established. Then, I run a little SSH forwarding script to setup a socks proxy from inside that container. One of my firefox profiles can then use custom network settings to point to that socks proxy and get access to all my internal machines for the secondary tailscale network.<p>As I mentioned, this is only possible with Firefox. Both Safari and Chrome use the system level settings for proxy, which I cannot use for my other Firefox profiles which need to use the main tailscale network.<p>I love firefox profiles and cannot live without them.<p>As an aside, I&#x27;m pretty blown away that I can run a secondary tailscale network inside a container running on a host network with a primary tailscale network, and have it all work perfectly. Wireguard and tailscale are incredible.<p>The only issue I have is that I often have to shutdown profiles and lima machines because the memory usage adds up. But, other than that it is a terrific experience.
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Apreche7 个月前
No because I have an entirely separate computer for work. I never let personal and business mix on the same hardware. If I had only one computer for both, I absolutely would use profiles.
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AStonesThrow7 个月前
I have <i>five</i> personal Google accounts. I use one as my &quot;main&quot; for &quot;kitchen sink&quot; type things, including any shopping&#x2F;commerce&#x2F;paying for stuff.<p>The other four accounts are for special purposes. Each hobby and volunteer concern I&#x27;ve split off to be separate and sort of siloed. I have Google One with a family plan, so my &quot;family of five&quot; consists of all my personal accounts, linked for the One benefits, such as extra Drive storage. But they&#x27;ve all got their separate Drive space, Photos, bookmarks and browser extensions&#x2F;settings.<p>Unfortunately, I can only use browser profiles on the Windows 11 system. On my Android phone, and my Chromebook, browser profiles are not supported! For some of the accounts, I maintain a separate Chromebook login, but mostly I use both of these devices with my main Google account logged in, so the bookmarks and other browser profile features are wholly unavailable.<p>I am unsure why there&#x27;s a lack of profile support from Google on these devices. I feel like they&#x27;re trying to encourage separate sign-ins, and it&#x27;s some kind of security concern, but I&#x27;m not entirely sure.
mjevans7 个月前
Firefox Profile user<p>I use KDE Plasma Desktop, and have a couple symlinks to &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;firefox in ~&#x2F;bin&#x2F; which have different names. I&#x27;ve setup multiple &#x27;Applications&#x27; for Firefox which use those symlinks as the &#x27;program&#x27; and arguments of the format: -P [hardcodedprofilename] --new-window %u<p>Sadly, either KDE resolves the symlink, or Firefox does as the program forks.<p>If I ps axf | grep firefox I can&#x27;t tell which firefox belongs to which process based on the command line arguments.<p>It would really be nice if the -P profile or -p profilepath(full) were the IMMEDIATE arguments after &#x2F;usr&#x2F;lib&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;firefox or similar. &quot;Icons-and-Text Task Manager&quot; isn&#x27;t smart enough and only has TWO group options (Do not group) and (By Program Name), but I could see future support and&#x2F;or other task group programs allowing group by firstN arguments or passing the PID off to another program to have it run commands and figure out a result.
dmart7 个月前
I don’t see how container tabs “get you halfway there”? I think they’re far superior to needing to switch your entire browser context to a different profile.
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jtwaleson7 个月前
I&#x27;m currently a freelancer (Fractional CTO) at 4 different companies. Having browser profiles made my life bearable again. Each profile has the Google&#x2F;MS&#x2F;Slack&#x2F;Teams tabs for that company and I switch 5 times per day.
kelnos7 个月前
I&#x27;m sort of in the middle. I use Firefox container tabs, but only in the context of a few properties (Meta, Amazon), via browser extensions. I don&#x27;t manually start new container tabs myself. I just rely on the extensions to open new container tabs when I hit those specific sites.<p>I wish there was an extension (or, much much better yet, something built-in) that would let me create &quot;container groups&quot; where I could list domain names or URL patterns, and always have them open in an isolated container group.
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stephenhuey7 个月前
A year ago I started using them in the developer edition of Firefox on my Macbook, but then months later the Firefox developer edition started flaking out, e.g. I&#x27;d open a profile and it literally wouldn&#x27;t navigate anywhere, or if it did it wouldn&#x27;t last long. Bizarre. Even mentioned it to a college classmate who recently took a job at Mozilla but he&#x27;s not working on anything close to that. So I started using profiles in Safari, and honestly, neither is perfect but some stuff worked a bit better in Firefox. I still go open up Firefox every now and then to retrieve a password I haven&#x27;t yet migrated over to Safari. I probably should bite the bullet and get rid of Firefox developer edition and just install the regular build. I love using Firefox Focus on iOS since it feels faster than the other browsers.<p>edit: flaking out, since I can&#x27;t think of a better way to describe what&#x27;s happening :)
jakub_g7 个月前
I use profiles on desktop, but also use multiple browsers, and multiple versions of browsers, especially on mobile, for different purposes:<p>- Firefox Focus as default browser when clicking links from native apps to always open it with an empty cookie jar<p>- Brave Android as default manual browser, and for watching videos (audio only) with screen turned off - the only browser to support it, behind a pref<p>- Opera Android when I need to zoom &amp; have text to reflow (it&#x27;s the only browser which supports this, behind a pref)<p>- Separate browser only for social media, to not mix history with default browser.<p>I used to use Firefox profiles long time ago on desktop, but as it required command line flag, and was not first-class UI supported, I started instead using Firefox Stable &#x2F; Dev &#x2F; Nightly.
tristanj7 个月前
No, I found that using separate browsers is easier. I have 5 browsers on my machine - Arc, Brave, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Arc is for daily use, Brave is for financial apps, Chrome is for work, Firefox is for anonymous browsing, and Safari just exists. Each browser has a different theme color so I can quickly tell them apart.<p>Before switching to Arc, I used to do the same with installing multiple versions of Chrome. I&#x27;d have the Chrome release &#x2F; beta &#x2F; dev versions on my machine, each one for a different use case.
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jszymborski7 个月前
I used to use both Container tabs and two profiles. The two profiles were a non-tracking profile, and a fairly vanilla profile (plus uBlock). I&#x27;d switch to the vanilla profile when the privacy settings borked things. I made heavy use of Containers in both browsers.<p>Nowadays, I use Librewolf the same way as I used the non-tracking profile, and I just have one profile on Firefox that I use in the same way as the Vanilla profile. Still a big container person, especially for banks.
assusdan7 个月前
I use firefox profiles, separate for a) personal use b) work and c) personal use with different network settings (as I need more than one VPN connected simultaneously, I launch this profile from Distrobox) to connect to geofenced &#x2F; ISP blocked services.<p>I use different color schemes to visually distinguish them.<p>The only problem is that opening link from other apps do not automagically select right profile, so I have to manually copypaste it. Otherwise, it all works awesomely.
astraloverflow7 个月前
The lack of multiple browser profiles WITH cloud settings sync has blocked me from switching from chrome for a long time now.<p>- Firefox? Sync but difficult browser profile management<p>- Brave? Multiple profiles due to being chrome based, but they use this weird sync system that I&#x27;m not a fan of<p>- Opera? Sync but no multiple profiles on mac (last I checked)<p>- Safari? Sync AND profiles, but the safari ui really doesn&#x27;t do it for me<p>Hopefully this update to multiple profile UX in Firefox will make it viable for my typical use.
jujube37 个月前
I use them for work versus personal in Chrome. The main use-case is Google Drive. For most other personal stuff I use a different browser.
SAI_Peregrinus7 个月前
I use Firefox with both profiles and container tabs. Profiles can have differing addons, while container tabs can&#x27;t.<p>One profile has no ad blocking, for the <i>extremely rare</i> occasions when there&#x27;s a site that I actually want to view that doesn&#x27;t work with ads blocked.<p>One profile is for testing.<p>The other is for regular browsing.
neodymiumphish7 个月前
I would like to just use Safari, as its URL-based defaulting to profiles is extremely similar to Arc’a ATC feature.<p>However, I don’t want my “Work” profile accessible from my phone at all, so now I use Orion for work and Safari for everything else. REALLY wish there was a way to segregate profiles based on device or have it be an option in iCloud.
LoganDark7 个月前
We have Dissociative Identity Disorder and a number of us benefit from having separate browser profiles. Namely so we can keep any number of our various Discord accounts active simultaneously (we have like 5 of them).<p>We also use a separate profile for work stuff and another separate profile for NSFW stuff.
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brutal_chaos_7 个月前
I start firefox with -P every time I open the browser. I use it to compartmentalize my browsing habbits. E.g. if I&#x27;m working on schoolwork, I have a school profile w&#x2F;o any social media passwords stored. I also have a general browsing profile and a few others like banking.
kkfx7 个月前
I use Firefox with a custom user.js started with ffprofile template and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;soulhotel&#x2F;FF-ULTIMA">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;soulhotel&#x2F;FF-ULTIMA</a> as a skin (this only recently after a general refresh).
cassianoleal7 个月前
I’ve been using the Zen Browser for a couple weeks now.<p>It’s similar to Arc, but with Firefox underneath. It has workspaces and you can assign different containers to each workspace.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zen-browser.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zen-browser.app&#x2F;</a>
dorfsmay7 个月前
On top of separating google login, keeping Facebook completely separated from rest etc... Firefox profiles let me have a bunch of extensions for development (eg: React dev tool) that tend to eat memory and slow down every day browsing.
normalaccess7 个月前
My current role requires several Microsoft cloud account and Firefox&#x27;s tab containers has been a godsend. It&#x27;s a little to get set up but once it is you get a single pane of glass that remembers your settings per site.<p>I can&#x27;t recommend it enough.
suriya-ganesh7 个月前
I&#x27;m in the Chrome -&gt; Arc .character arc (heh!) myself.<p>And, profiles is the only thing preventing me from going all in on Chrome.<p>I have 6 profiles across my personal, university, and work contexts. And can&#x27;t imagine living without them.
svl77 个月前
Container tabs, often with specific socks proxies. This allows for some immensely useful setups that as far as I&#x27;m aware no other major browser can do in such an easy way or at all.
JohnFen7 个月前
I use Firefox, but I&#x27;ve not found profiles or container tabs to be particularly useful to me so I don&#x27;t use them.<p>When I was using Chromium-based browsers, I never used profiles either.
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cheschire7 个月前
Are Firefox container tabs similar to Edge workspaces?
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TechSquidTV7 个月前
Technically yes but extremely rare
ok1234567 个月前
Yes. I use container tabs—a separate one for each &quot;big tech&quot; company.
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brudgers7 个月前
<i>Firefox is adding better profile UX (it’s currently behind a flag)</i><p>I have about:profiles as the first tab in my set of home tabs...for multiple profiles. I am pretty sure I will continue to do that so long as Firefox allows it because drop down menus are pretty terrible UX and my first tab is always just ctrl-1 away. Good luck.
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viewtransform7 个月前
I found container tabs to be useless for my use case:<p>I want to have two YouTube accounts running simultaneously - one for entertainment and another for coding&#x2F;AI&#x2F;science. That way the YT recommendations in both accounts diverge to the different use cases. Using two Firefox profiles was the only way to do this.<p>I would be very disappointment to see Firefox profiles deprecated.<p>Minor nitpick - the poll options should say &#x27;yes I use profiles&#x27; not &#x27;yes I do&#x27;. Same with the no option. Be clear to avoid confusion.
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suprjami7 个月前
I used to. Now I use Firefox for work and Librewolf for personal.
ryandvm7 个月前
Yeah, 3 profiles: personal, work, side-work