shortcut for different profiles

[80]

i have switched from chrome since past 1 month and firefox is just better. the only thing i did not find easy is the option for having multiple profiles to be used at ease, could be better if there was one to easily access seperate profiles for work and home

[abdnafees]

@jhirsch THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[Flymore]

I agree with the fact that this feature already exists: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1231994#answer-1149335

However, it's true that it's not very user friendly. I use it, but I wouldn't recommend it to most of the people I know.

There are few things that could be done to improve it:

• To add a way to start the profile manager without having to run a "-p" command line or about:profiles (which sounds like witchcraft for many people).
• To easily allow to create different shortcuts/buttons to easily start each profile instance.
• To have different icons or colors in the taskbar for each profile instance running.

Alternatively, there is the "containers" extension, but it has limitations: I tried to use it, but I found annoying that most of settings are shared between containers. For example, if you create a separate container for Facebook, you still have to allow keeping Facebook cookies in all containers, because if you configure Firefox to delete that cookie when closing the browser, that applies to all containers and the session is lost.

[radterrax]

Multiple Profiles Within the Same Browser

Create a new space similar to what Safari has but open it in the same browser with a 'Profile Tab' instead of it opening a separate browser for that specific profile. House the Profile Tab or Space in the drop-down or simply make a different color tab somewhere in the tab area next to the recent browsing drop down. Have the option of keeping all bookmarks or just some pertaining to that profile. This is a winner!

[SOWBHARATH]

This is a really needed feature. I sometimes need to separate my history and bookmarks for personal things and other things. Or don't want to combine my accounts for same websites together. me and my brother want to switch easly our account

[Jon]

@SOWBHARATH agreed! and also happy to share that this feature is being worked on right now. We'll share more updates on the progress here - stay tuned 😀

[Jon]

Similar idea here: shortcut for different profiles 

@radterrax if this aligns with your idea, we can merge the two threads together (and combine the kudos) - that way the conversation stays focused in one space, which is helpful when our product teams gather insights here. Just let me know 😃

[radterrax]

Sure! Yes absolutely. Thank you for your support!

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[Reru01]

@jhirschPlease overhaul how "open link in browser" works as well with this profiles update. I dislike that it just opens in whatever profile you most recently used profile switcher to open. I very much liked chromes implementation where it opens in the last profile used.

Ex: I use profiles A, B, and C. I usually use A which I open first, then open either B or C depending on which I end up needing first. Most of the time I want links yo open in A but occasonally I want them to open in B, hardly ever do I want to open them in C but half the time they do as that was the most recent to open.

Also, I really hope that we will get to have PFPs show up in the taskbar to show which profile is open and allow for pinning of that specific profile. Then when I have 2 profiles open in 1 desktop/kde_activity I can know which windows are what profile; or when I restart the PC, I can open the profile I want directly in each individual activity.

[myspace]

Great news! Please make it easy to share or move things between my profiles.

[bwat47]

@Reru01 

Personally, I really dislike chrome's behavior where links open in the last used profile. I often have both profiles open at the same time, and I find the behavior really unpredictable because when I click a link I never know what profile it's going to open in.

On my work laptop, I want all external links to open in my Work profile (because the only external links I click on are work related).

On my personal laptop, I want all external links to open in my Personal profile (except for certain work-related domains).

I think the Edge browser has the best approach here. You can configure it to use the last used profile like Chrome does. Or, you can configure the settings so that all external links open in a certain profile (and can also configure certain domains to automatically open in certain profiles).

[em843]

This will only become more important to add as people (like myself) ditch Chrome for Firefox before they restrict ad blockers. Would love to see this feature.

[Jon]

@em843 good news, we're working on this feature now. We'll share updates in this thread - stay tuned 😃

[rojoix]

Desperately want this to seperate work & personal browsing. All `about:profile` needs a easy to access UI & a keyboard shortcut (The shortcut for Chrome is a nightmare `Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + M`)

[Jon]

Not sure if you all have seen this yet...the Firefox team added a post 'Here's what we're working on in Firefox' here on Connect about some of the exciting features currently in development & on the way — and profile management was mentioned!

Jumping in here to say thanks again for voting and sharing valuable insights for this feature. It really did play a big role in pushing the work forward 🙌