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Related if anyone is switching over. I like to run Firefox Developer Edition[0] as my "work" browser, with work related bookmarks, etc. and then regular Firefox for nonwork. This makes it really easy to keep the two separate. I know there's a lot of ways to segment within the same browser but this works well for me.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

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You can achieve the same (or similar) thing with Firefox profiles. Just launch with "-p" and it'll give you a profile picker. You can have a work profile with separate extensions, bookmarks, settings, etc.

Can't believe I never heard about this. This is a life saver, I specifically installed ton of different browsers to emulate this....

FYI developer edition has a ton of additional data collection that I don't believe can be disabled, if that matters to you.

Isn't Developer Edition just a rebranded Firefox Beta that uses a different profile by default?

Same branch as beta, but with different build flags. Add-ons don't need to be signed to be installed on DevEdition, there's a DevTools button in the toolbar by default, etc.

Containers are firefox's killer feature, highly encourage you to try them. I wish Mozilla would invest more in developing that feature.

Chromium has a concept of "user data directories" which in theory keep all data isolated to a single folder. You can use a launch parameter to specify what the user data directory you want to use is (so a shortcut). I'm pretty sure Firefox must have an equivalent.

It does, it's just called profiles. And they have a setting to always launch sthe profile selector on start.

Yes, I used to always use a work profile and a home profile in Firefox. Over time I simply made more containers and stopped using profiles altogether. But the option is still there.

Thanks. I didn't use uBlock but I will be switching due to Chrome removing support for non-subsituting keywords (search engines with no %s), which I used heavily as basically aliases for web addresses.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/397720842?pli=1

You can also just use Firefox containers. Or if you don't want to send all the data with dev use a fork of firefox

I just use multicontainers extension for that sort of thing. It keeps them siloed off from each other. Great for having multiple accounts on sites like bsky and reddit as well.

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