You think the profile feature is a popular reason to use chrome? I have been using the Internet since mid 90s and I never once used it on any browser until last year. No issues with it on FF btw
It’s weird for me that an application should have profiles for different user, shouldn’t we use profiles on OS side, it’s also less problematic in my mind
Depends, it’s the computer in the common room that’s never locked and it would be a pain in the ass to have to switch OS profile every time one of us wants to check something on the internet that requires access to our personal accounts and bookmarks. The web browser is the only thing that needs to be separated. I don’t think it’s a particularly rare situation that people in the same family share a computer but want separate browser profiles so it’s in sync with their cellphone.
With Chrome we each have an icon in the taskbar and our instances are merged under our respective icon in the taskbar.
With Firefox “vanilla edition” we either need to access about:profile to switch or we can use a workaround to have separate icons in the taskbar but then because it’s not Firefox’s regular icon that we’re using but a shortcut modified to open a specific profile, each shortcut creates a new icon in the taskbar when we click on it and that’s where the instances merge, that means that if we both have instances opened we now have four Firefox icons in the taskbar and because of muscle memory we tend to click on the shortcut instead of the icon where our instance actually is so we end up opening a new instance instead of just opening the instance where we already have our tabs opened.
So in your mind this meme is talking shit because somehow extensions are objectively inferior? Extensions are great because not everyone has the same preferences. To me this meme doesn’t at all criticize Firefox, as this is a valid choice faced with many features.
I don’t know of a case where anything is “relying on extensions”. The extensions I use are almost all for something not everyone wants/needs. And I use a lot, which is a good thing imo. I can disable or replace extensions that no longer do what I want or I no longer need.
Well only started using a browser profile, specifically in Chrome, within the last year. I still don’t use it for personal use, though. Or chrome for that matter.
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You think the profile feature is a popular reason to use chrome? I have been using the Internet since mid 90s and I never once used it on any browser until last year. No issues with it on FF btw
It’s weird for me that an application should have profiles for different user, shouldn’t we use profiles on OS side, it’s also less problematic in my mind
Depends, it’s the computer in the common room that’s never locked and it would be a pain in the ass to have to switch OS profile every time one of us wants to check something on the internet that requires access to our personal accounts and bookmarks. The web browser is the only thing that needs to be separated. I don’t think it’s a particularly rare situation that people in the same family share a computer but want separate browser profiles so it’s in sync with their cellphone.
With Chrome we each have an icon in the taskbar and our instances are merged under our respective icon in the taskbar.
With Firefox “vanilla edition” we either need to access about:profile to switch or we can use a workaround to have separate icons in the taskbar but then because it’s not Firefox’s regular icon that we’re using but a shortcut modified to open a specific profile, each shortcut creates a new icon in the taskbar when we click on it and that’s where the instances merge, that means that if we both have instances opened we now have four Firefox icons in the taskbar and because of muscle memory we tend to click on the shortcut instead of the icon where our instance actually is so we end up opening a new instance instead of just opening the instance where we already have our tabs opened.
Just pointing out my experience when mentioning something that could be improved and it fits the meme perfectly.
So in your mind this meme is talking shit because somehow extensions are objectively inferior? Extensions are great because not everyone has the same preferences. To me this meme doesn’t at all criticize Firefox, as this is a valid choice faced with many features.
Sure, but when stuff clearly doesn’t work in a logical way, you would expect devs to correct the program itself instead of relying on extensions.
I don’t know of a case where anything is “relying on extensions”. The extensions I use are almost all for something not everyone wants/needs. And I use a lot, which is a good thing imo. I can disable or replace extensions that no longer do what I want or I no longer need.
I’m the same boat except I was forced to use it because of work some time in the last 2 ish years.
You’re successfully using profiles in Firefox you mean?
Well only started using a browser profile, specifically in Chrome, within the last year. I still don’t use it for personal use, though. Or chrome for that matter.