for the most part I've been using Firefox containers and loving that life of getting the same benefits without having to create separate profiles.

but it's nice to see this finally get into Firefox because there are still a lot of folks who also want to maintain things like browser bookmarks, passwords etc in a separate profile. that's the only conceivable useful difference over Containers (which IMHO is slightly better than having to manage multiple profiles)

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happymellon 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

> that's the only conceivable useful difference over Containers

But thats a massive difference.

I have work profiles and a personal profile. I have password manager profiles for clients (clients will provide their own PM logins to segregate their access) which are different between them, and having separate profiles is huge.

Containers are great, especially for crappy websites that use your sessions for tracking which page you are on, but they are no where near powerful enough.

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degamad 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You've hit on the relevant distinction: user context vs system context.

I use containers to separate system context (partitioning cookies and site data) while remaining in the same user context (e.g. "personal browsing").

I use profiles for when I need different user contexts (different bookmarks and frequently used sites for different clients or projects).

When only one tool is available, you are limited by the constraints of that tool (e.g. bookmarks bleeding over between user contexts when using containers, or having to copy extensions or bookmarks into every profile).

	▲	kiernan 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I like to have it both ways. Given the options available so far I've preferred to have bookmarks shared between both and mainly keep tabs / working context separate. The best I've managed so far is to run separate instances of Firefox with the same Sync Account which appear as separate 'devices'. Nightly with a different icon and theme makes it obvious which is which. This way if I come across something interesting I want dig into further on my own time, I can bookmark it as well as 'Send Tab To Device -> Home' or 'Phone' depending on where I want to be and what environment I want to have available when I see it later (e.g. read only, or hands on). Yes, I may be hoarding a lot of tabs but that's a separate issue...

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sorcercode 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

that's fair (and glad profiles have finally arrived in FF for that reason); personally, i don't use password managers linked to any specific browser but i can understand your use case.

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sudobash1 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> that's the only conceivable useful difference over Containers

Actually, I have wanted better profile support for a while to segregate addons. There are plenty of addons that I want to use occasionally that require full data access. I generally do trust them, but even so, I keep these in a separate profile just in case. That is something that can't be done with containers.

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sfRattan 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> There are plenty of addons that I want to use occasionally that require full data access. I generally do trust them...

Seconded, except I don't trust most add-ons and don't want to have to trust them.

I want an easy way to launch a disposable browser session in any browser, totally isolated, with add-ons chosen (and downloaded) at launch time, and then erased of with the rest of the session when its last open page is closed.

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gaadd33 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think Firefox focus does that on android, I'm sure there's a way to get the same result on a desktop with some flags and pointing to a config file (or a read only profile folder maybe?)

	▲	yjftsjthsd-h 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AFAIK Firefox Focus doesn't have extensions at all:( Although yes, it effectively has only private/incognito sessions that are erased when you close the app.

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attendant3446 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Profiles were in Firefox for a long time now. It looks like they finally have made a proper UI for it.