Post #1851005

Is this profiles method same / similar to containers or wildly different? Before migrating to Firefox, I used Chrome. Since I had multiple Gmail accounts for no real reason (from old times), I decided why not using different Chrome profiles for different types of tasks. In Firefox, I don’t remember having something similar. That was like 5+ years ago, I believe profiles were there, but perhaps less easy to use. So I ended up using containers, and you know, I quite like them! I use them everywhere, all the time. I have a nice extension called Firefox Multi-Account Containers and some other extension (I need to lookup it from my desktop) that allows opening the container via a CLI parameter. I created a bunch of .desktop files that open a C particular link with a particular container. I use it very heavily, all the time. To the point I don’t really notice I manage various identities for various websites. I tested with ChatGPT, I use various login with Google accounts, for various purposes. So far (over a year or so) I wasn’t banned, even despite often I have multiple accounts opened in sibling tabs. E.g. one generates images, another translates texts, another one helps with some code, and the 4th one helps with some Linux administration. I wonder the use case for profiles. That’s definitely a very nice feature, and it’s very useful. I guess that’s more for separation. For when I don’t want the other profile distracting me. I’d love to learn how others find them profiles useful.