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Comment by mbrubeck | Hacker News Reader

I'm a longtime Mozilla contributor, so I’m probably biased toward Firefox, but there are still a few Chrome features that I wish Firefox had, like:

- Easier to create and use multiple profiles (somewhat mitigated by Mozilla's multi-container add-on)

- Google Translate integration

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It’s not built-in, but you can get Google Translate browser extensions, and these are promoted on Firefox marketing pages.

Also, there’s an offline translate extension being worked on in open source: https://blog.mozilla.org/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-pr...

You can also make a bookmarklet that loads Google Translate into the page. It isn't quite as nice as the auto-detect in Chrome but very close.

With the new offline translation support I actually prefer this setup as I can try the local translate first, then if the quality is bad or the language isn't supported I can make the decision if I want to upload the page to Google.

I use the Right Click Search addon, select text, and "search" with Google Translate.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/right-click-s...

The profiles is what gets me. I have a personal bad professional profile on my device and whenever clicking on a link, it will open the page in the latest chrome window (re: profile) that was last accessed and it works wonderfully. Firefox profiles are a completely different process/app/structure and it just really does not work gracefully in any scenario I’ve tried.

This is also what keeps me from considering FF for a daily driver. I have the same workflow and it's very easy to keep straight.

I have hotkeys assigned to each profile via macOS shortcuts. Cmd-shift-# focuses a given profile. Or opens a new window of that profile if there wasn't one already.

Links from other apps always open in the most recent profile.

This makes it very simple to ensure links I click in Slack/iMessage/etc open where I want them to.

(Took the time to write this out in the hopes some Firefox folks see this..)

There's a profile switcher extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

Which requires Homebrew and additional configuration.

While it works kinda OK, Profiles switching is such a core element to using a browser for Work & Personal use. Chrome makes this simple.

Or bookmark about:profiles.

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