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Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Show of Hands:

Who's heard of "about:profiles"?

🦗🦗🦗

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago

Been using it for years.

Been using multi account containers [1] for a couple weeks, complete with per-tab-SSL vpns.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

[–] mr_satan@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait till you hear about:about

[–] frmrm@peachpie.theatl.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

For some reason I read that in a Canadian accent in my head.

“aboot aboot”

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I use them all the time, they're great. I learned about it from another random Lemmy comment

[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I use it so much I have the tab pinned

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've been using it for years, too. I have it on my bookmarks bar, but this will certainly be better, I'd think.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Next they’re gonna tell me they haven’t heard of about:processes either

about:config has all the fame…