Have you tried containers? I used to rely heavily on profiles, but containers are like having several profiles open at once, or several degrees of private browsing.
Personally I think both options should be possible. Choice is good
For other things, I really want containers. For example, if I'm prompted to load my banking side from a google email, why yes, I do want to open this tab in my baanking container, thanak you for asking, Firefox. Oh, this is a link to social media? Please cordon that off to a separate container as well.
Profiles are good, containers are good, they both serve slightly different use cases and can be used well by the same person, so both should be first class.
I also have multiple google accounts because of it which are super simple to use in Chrome, the containers might cover that for me.
it is just not proeminent in the interface..
you can access the profiles in "about:profiles"
You can also have a shortcut for "firefox.exe -p" and it will aks what profile you want when starting..
or create a shortcut to "firefox.exe -P "Profile Name"" and it will open automatically in the profile you define in the shortcut..
But if you know about it, it makes no sense as a reason for you to stop using firefox. It only takes a few seconds to set up and you can do the same thing with themes.
> Also have you ever tried migrating profiles before Sync?
I have. You move the folder from one computer to another and the profile is migrated.
Unlike chrome, where that triggers some kind of "malware has altered the profile!" mode and it resets things. How do you migrate a chrome profile without sync?
In Chromium browsers when you click a link, whatever profile was last opens the link.
You also have to do some hacks to get FF profiles to use separate taskbar icons and they don't show a profile picture like Chromium browsers.
I work on various OSS projects for $smallcorp mostly.
For example I dont need every plugin I use for work while I browse the web & vice-versa.