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> I always knew Google Chrome was sending back telemetry data or whatever and never looked back. Then You may want to try Iridium which is privacy and security oriented Chrome fork.

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Can Iridum do multi-user the way Chrome does? I have different Chrome users configured for different things. That, AFAIK, makes FF a no go for me.

Firefox has multi-container, it's pretty close.

I like multi-container better than chrome's solution. I can keep sites from seeing cookie from any other site. Or I can create a group of sites that can share login sessions. And all I have to do is click the links and it all happens automatically.

For one project I was working on I made containers for all the different types of roles users could login as, so if I need to check for missing functionality / too much access I just switch a tab to the appropriate role, vs logging out, logging back in, no wait wrong password, log back i-, ok who changed the password? ... eventually logging on and by then forgetting what I was testing for.

I also appreciate Firefox ESR which has allowed me to test some legacy silverlight app which we're still porting over to HTML5 (to make sure we didn't miss anything).

I'm not sure how that works in chrome, but profiles in firefox are completely separate, and you can run multiple at the same time. I have them configured for different things, too. If you're running linux, just do:

    firefox --new-instance --ProfileManager

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