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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 3 months ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I use multiple profiles in chrome for my different logged in usages, for some reason Firefox makes it hard to switch profiles.

[–] LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago

Look up the Firefox Containers extension.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Hard" is a strong word. It's not built into the default interface, granted, but it's not that hard to use FF's command line: firefox -P

They have said they're thinking about rejigging the whole thing though.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok, telling people to open a command line and TYPE firefox -P is HARD. In chrome you just click the icon in the upper right and select whatever profile you want.

It makes no sense that you have to either open about:profiles then select "launch in new window" or open the command line to start a new profile, makes NO sense at all.

You can open a firefox private window with a keyboard shortcut, but if you want to be logged into two different accounts in two different profiles, you have to go through a minimum of three non-intuitive steps.

Even the extension that adds the profile switching doesn't work anymore because it's not maintained.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dude, if that's all-caps HARD, then I don't know how you'd classify, say, compiling things from source and fixing any problems that might crop up along the way. Or fixing missing DLL / OCX hell when trying to get an old Windows game running under Linux, because let me tell you, I've done both of those and had to give up. firefox -P is heaven by comparison.

You could even put it into a shortcut and you wouldn't have to type it any more.

Yes the interface sucks, but HARD is not it.

[–] Bongles@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but you know most people do not have to do what you just described.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most people don't need multiple profiles either.

[–] Bongles@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Fair enough

[–] minstrel 1 points 3 months ago

it has something like '-no-remote -p name' param on cmd that you can do it seamless like chromium, or u can use the fork of the drop official pwa firefox support, it could be better, i know n i get it, but if u just use chromium base for it, than i got u covered

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

The profile manager is definitely annoying, but it shouldn't be that hard to visit about:profiles to switch / open other profiles. Afaik they do work on a better one though.