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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Genuine question: I use brave currently. I really heavily on multiple profiles (work, side-business, personal) that are easy to switch between or have active all at the same time in separate windows.

I tried firefox, but in my experience, the method for changing “profiles” was unintuitive and cumbersome. Was I just doing it wrong, or does Firefox not have that same kind of feature?

I really wanna use Firefox, but that’s a deal-breaker.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    use container tabs, not separate profiles. profiles are for installing separate sets of addons and the like.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    That’s why I need the separate profiles. Some work add-ons I don’t care to have on personal, and vice versa. I like totally segmented preferences.

    Edit: I get it now. It’s worth the overlapping add ons. This should do it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are a few ways! I have separate Firefox profiles for everything.

    The least effort way is to visit about:profiles, then you get a list of them all and can add/remove them. I have it bookmarked or pinned as a tab in all of my different profiles.

    Second, but takes more effort is you can make desktop or start menu shortcuts to the profiles. In short (on windows at least) you copy the Firefox shortcut, edit it, then add -p "Profile Name". There might be more to it? Maybe good to Google this one for a better description. But I literally have a start menu shortcut for all like 7 of mine, then it's just like launching a different application.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Or have a shortcut that has something like this as its target:
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" --ProfileManager --allow-downgrade -no-remote
    This just opens the profile manager every time. The only caveat is that you have to click "launch" every time as there's no timeout. But I also do have an autohotkey script that does the timeout for me, pressing "enter" after 30s.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Plus Firefox has the same problem that Chrome does. And that problem is the shit ton of ads that pop up every goddamn place.

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