This is incredibly useful. It's basically like Chrome's 'profiles', except per-tab rather than per-window. So I can now have my personal gmail, my work gmail, and the 3rd gmail account for a client set next to each other, and colour coded.
This, along with the speed improvements (both the UI and content processes) in Firefox 55 have made it my default browser for the first time since Chrome was released.
Yes, best feature ever. I've been giving it a try for some time now since it came out in test pilot and it's beautiful.
Open your google/twitter/whatever accounts in separate profiles, et you get the benefits of being "always logged in" with no tracking on your main session.
Having multiple github accounts next to each others is a bliss and prevent so many stupid mistakes I used to make, like commenting with the wrong identity on a PR.
Combined with the tab group extension, it makes currently Firefox the most productive browser experience I had in years.
If you enable 'privacy.resistFingerprinting' in your about:config, you get substantially harder to track. The caveat is that there's a small (albeit noticeable) performance delta.
Unlike chrome, you can't have multiple Firefox profiles running simultaneously unless you're using two separate installs. Even then, one has to be nightly/developer/etc, or it refused to start.
You can. As the other commenter wrote `firefox -no-remote -P` works. You can also add the name of a profile after the "-P" to launch directly into that profile.
If you're not on Windows, you can also instead use `firefox -new-instance -P`, which is better, because -no-remote cuts off communication from other applications to that Firefox instance, meaning that you can't open links from those other applications inside a Firefox instance that's been started with -no-remote.
The aforementioned "about:profiles" also has a button "Launch profile in new browser", which is much easier than the above methods, but those are useful, if you for example want desktop shortcut for your individual profiles.
Yes! I've said this since day zero of the Chrome profile implementation we were all forced^H^H^Hstrongly encouraged to evaluate. This does not work on a Social web, at least not for most people. Humans have one technical identity, but they have multiple personas, and they adapt them per context. We have done so for thousands of years and to force every interactive to be viewed in the context of every other robs people of normal expectations of freedom.
Yes Firefox seems to be making big strides, and I find myself using it more often these days. It's a ripe environment for them right now too, with many more of the general public growing wary of Google (kind of the new Microsoft, in Mozilla/Netscape terms). If I didn't have to test stuff in Chrome, I'd probably be ready (as of FF55) to uninstall it altogether. Even the Firefox dev tools are better than Chrome in my opinion.
I agree, although the fact that pinch-to-zoom still sucks big time in Firefox (in comparison to Safari and Chrome/Chromium) annoys me so much, in the end i always keep avoiding Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688990
It sooo much easier when reading articles to be able to zoom in to the 'article text only' in Safari/Chromium.
However it doesn't appear to containerize extensions / add-ons, so it's probably still prudent to use a separate clean profile for banking to avoid the risk of malicious data-slurping add-ons.
Despite their claims for it: "Maybe you want to keep your bank’s website farther away from your Pinterest board"
I think the OP is sorta saying the same thing -- they perhaps don't want their banking container to see add-ons (except the container add-on :-)). It's perhaps okay to be relaxed about some add-ons in some environments, but not in all environments.
I always thought profiles we're designed for multiple users on one login; they've been around for ages, and I assumed it was because windows 98 wasn't good with multiple profiles/users.
This is huge! I work for an IT consulting firm and we have accounts for each client which I store in their unique chrome profiles. Keeps things organized but switching between windows can get tedious at times so having them per-tab is making me switch back to Firefox
This, along with the speed improvements (both the UI and content processes) in Firefox 55 have made it my default browser for the first time since Chrome was released.