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Unangbangkay
@Unangbangkay

I noticed today that Firefox has a whole button that just wholesale imports a chrome profile you had set up. It includes your browser history, bookmark arrangements, and even most of the saved logins.

The only thing that's a little finicky is that if you want to have a bunch of different profiles that are all logged into different accounts set up for different contexts - for example, I have my main, a second one for when i need to manage my parents' emails, and a third for work.

By default Firefox's profile manager is a weird little subpage, as if Mozilla is trying to de-emphasize the functionality.

You can access it a help topic about it here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles

You can create a new profile, then log into the relevant accounts and it'll be treated like a new browser window. But it's still fiddly, and you can't, say, assign a custom icon or color scheme for different profiles or switch profiles easily in the UI like Chrome and Edge can.


aune
@aune

There's actually an easier way to do that!

You can use the containers functionality in Firefox -- you don't need multiple profiles, you can actually have a single profile function as multiple things!

It's INCREDIBLY useful. There's also "Trash Containers" as a separate addon, for single-use, disposable containers that tend to function really nicely as "private browsing without being private browsing".

There's a specific extension for Facebook Containers, too, which auto-segments all Facebook traffic to prevent all of their tracking.