(On Windows anyway, don’t know if different on Linux)
Just wanted to share that as a user of both Firefox and Chrome, it’s one thing that makes me hate switching to Firefox. I often need to use two different profiles and the way Firefox does it sucks.
With Chrome I’ve got two shortcuts (that Chrome creates by activating an option) pinned to my taskbar that look distinct from one another and the instances that I open are combined under their respective profile shortcuts.
With Firefox I need to manually create two shortcuts, assign two distinct icons to differentiate them, change some properties so they open the right profile, pin them and because they’re “regular shortcuts” instead of the default Firefox launcher shortcut, when I open the program I end up with a third Firefox icon in my taskbar (it does not open under the shortcut I used, it acts as if I clicked a shortcut on my desktop) where all instances get merged together no matter which profile they’re associated with.
Did you try containers? Though truth be told I am not amazed by any of these solutions too.
@Kecessa
💯 For me, the Profile Switcher is the best solution because it opens any number of instances of Firefox with different profiles at the same time.
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…What’s the goal with the profiles? Is it to keep separate sessions or keep separate accounts with specific bookmarks?
I use Firefox and there are 5 extensions I install every time and two of those are Containers and Tree Style Tab.
I use profiles for using two different SSO accounts with company and customer site that both use the same SSO service.
Then use the Multi Accounts Containers extension, which achieves exactly that. I have work under the default container and my personal accounts in a “personal” container. We both use Google accounts, and it’s simple to separate them.
I actually have several:
- Work
- Personal
- Banking
- Wife
- Kids
- Shopping
- Games
I do this for a mixture of privacy (my SM can’t see my banking or shopping stuff) and convenience (can be logged into personal, work, wife, and kids email accounts simultaneously).
No need for profiles, they’re just colors on a tab, and all synced with my single Mozilla account.
As people have said containers is amazing. But in the scenario where you really need 2 completely separate browsers and don’t want to use different operating system accounts (I’ve done this in the past).This extension has worked well for me https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switcher/ It’s not ideal that it’s an extension but it does do its job
My solution is to use Firefox dev edition for the second profile.
