Profile management is going to be useful as a web developer; having easy access to a profile without e.g. adblockers and anti-tracking settings and such to test things, while still having them all available for my regular browsing, is going to be a boon.
Private windows already have stricter tracker protection by default, and I also have my blocker extension enabled there as well because I do also use it for other things. And of course, all my settings apply there too. So yeah, there are existing workarounds, but as you say, this is much neater.
Firefox already had a profile manager, in fact it had it long before Chrome did, but it wasn’t a Fisher Price Chrome-style interface and wasn’t accessible from the main browser window.
firefox --ProfileManager was the way to get to it.
I only hope that when the update hits my distro, it doesn’t mangle the profiles I already use.
Profile management is going to be useful as a web developer; having easy access to a profile without e.g. adblockers and anti-tracking settings and such to test things, while still having them all available for my regular browsing, is going to be a boon.
I’ve been using private windows to get add-on free windows for different things. Profiles would be much neater.
Private windows already have stricter tracker protection by default, and I also have my blocker extension enabled there as well because I do also use it for other things. And of course, all my settings apply there too. So yeah, there are existing workarounds, but as you say, this is much neater.
Firefox already had a profile manager, in fact it had it long before Chrome did, but it wasn’t a
Fisher PriceChrome-style interface and wasn’t accessible from the main browser window.firefox --ProfileManagerwas the way to get to it.I only hope that when the update hits my distro, it doesn’t mangle the profiles I already use.
Yeah that’s why I said easy access - I preferred
about:profiles, but in practice that was still too much of a hassle to actually use 😅As far as I can see this is mostly separate from your existing profiles though, as in, those aren’t listed in the new UI.