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> If you want to use it in Chrome you have to jump through hoops.

Why would a potential AdNauseam user even use Chrome?

Multiple and fully isolated user profiles - hugely important for the work I do. I know Firefox has containers, but they're not really feature complete compared to Chrome's, and the UI experience leaves a lot to be desired, there's just to many friction points.

edit: forgot to also mention, I'm also aware FF has profiles as well (about:profiles) but the implementation has too many speedbumps. As I mentioned in another post on HN, the profile manager needs to be an upfront and first class UI citizen, something hidden away with a fairly poor UIX.

Vivaldi also has profiles, added recently! (Uses Chromium)

Thanks, I'll take it for a drive. My big concern about third party browsers built on Chromium is knowing if they're up-to-date with their security fixes. Also there's that lack of openness about all the stuff they're building on top of Chromium, which is maybe a bit rich seeing as I rely on Chrome :).

Firefox has profiles too, although they are probably even even harder to use than containers.

Yeah, I forgot to add to my comment something about their Profile implementation which feels like another half baked idea.

You can also start firefox with a -p flag to get a profile selector on startup.

They're a pain to use though since you need to pass that on the command line.

Right click on the icon, select properties and add the flag in the target.

Yes, that's how I do it too. I have a bunch of Firefox icons in my top panel (Gnome), each one with a different profile. Setting this up is as simple as parent says. You can change the icons too.

Maybe their internal website is Chrome-only and broken on Firefox. Such things exist. (I actually have such personal experience.)

Chrome is (or was) good. Safari is fast, but is a bit clunky and doesn’t have many extensions, and Firefox has never felt like a proper macOS app. Maybe it’s better on Windows where platform standards are less strict.

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