The most useful feature with the worst UX. You have to type about:profiles and then create a new profile. But imagin you now want to move old profiles to a new computer and FF happens to run in a Flatpack. Yeah, much fun

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fa3556 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can (now?) create profiles from the account icon in the toolbar [1] and at least on my firefox install, you can also do it from the hamburger menu.

I use firefox via flatpak and had no issues so far accessing profile data (in one of the folders in ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/.mozilla/firefox/ - I keep a regular archive of the entire folder as backup).

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management

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kiwijamo 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe it hasn't been rolled out to me yet. Or it might be because I'm not logged into a Firefox profile? It is only availiable to those logged in?

	▲	fa3556 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No I don't use sync at all. I think it might just require `browser.profiles.enabled` to be set to true in about:config, at least until wider rollout.

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dare944 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Not all users will see the new Profiles menu in the toolbar, since this feature is being rolled out gradually

I don't see it yet, but hopefully soon.

	▲	fa3556 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You could use the about:config preference browser.profiles.enabled in the meantime I suppose.

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mvx64 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I found out about profiles recently and I just couldn't believe that that's the standard way to access them. Also, it's not obvious which profile you are currently on, so there are some silly but necessary workarounds like having a dummy bookmark with the profile name on each or something like that, while it could just be a string next to the address bar.

It works really well though. Does exactly what I would expect and hope from such a feature.

	▲	ifh-hn 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have different coloured themes for my profiles. Simple and immediate.

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agumonkey 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

there's an old '-P' flag that shows a small ui

see https://imgur.com/a/Tmt3oEL

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ciupicri 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does it still work?

	▲	agumonkey 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		yes. I just started using it last week to split work related browsing from personal stuff.
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Am4TIfIsER0ppos 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That used to be a start menu entry in the old days. I had heard it was removed but to my surprise -P works on my current linux. I'll have to see if it does actually start a new profile.