• TabbsTheBat@pawb.socialEnglish
        11·
        11 days ago

        Hey maybe I have firefox as a flatpak, deb, and snap, and im running all 3… That’d be 3 different firefoxes lol

            • mittorn@masturbated.one
              1·
              11 days ago

              @TabbsTheBat i did not use firefox long time, but usually --ProfileManager allowed to manage profiles. In old firefox android versions (which was xul-based) it was possible to enable profile manager by editing configurations

              • TabbsTheBat@pawb.socialEnglish
                1·
                11 days ago

                Fairsies :3

                I just can’t imagine for what purposes a browser would need a profile (though tbf at this point I have multiple features purposely disabled on firefox, cause I found them to just be clutter)

                • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  2·
                  10 days ago

                  It’s good for sync. Walked inside with a video on my phone? Video is better on laptop, so it’ll just open up my phone tab on my laptop.

        • relativestranger@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          i just use developer edition, which defaults to its own profile, along side the release version. then when i need a third, i use a ‘portable’ one also with its own–which can easily be zipped-up for a backup to revert back to when i’m testing stuff out.

          this is, of course, on top of the several derivatives i have installed. i segregate browsers and profiles by use and in a couple cases by specific site or service.

        • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          If you compiled firefox 6 times with different directory locations specified (in the code) you could open 6 different instances. It would only take like 10 hours to recompile every update.