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Profile management is going to be useful as a web developer; having easy access to a profile without e.g. adblockers and anti-tracking settings and such to test things, while still having them all available for my regular browsing, is going to be a boon.
Firefox already had a profile manager, in fact it had it long before Chrome did, but it wasn't a ~~Fisher Price~~ Chrome-style interface and wasn't accessible from the main browser window.
firefox --ProfileManagerwas the way to get to it.I only hope that when the update hits my distro, it doesn't mangle the profiles I already use.
Yeah that's why I said easy access - I preferred
about:profiles, but in practice that was still too much of a hassle to actually use 😅As far as I can see this is mostly separate from your existing profiles though, as in, those aren't listed in the new UI.
I've been using private windows to get add-on free windows for different things. Profiles would be much neater.
Private windows already have stricter tracker protection by default, and I also have my blocker extension enabled there as well because I do also use it for other things. And of course, all my settings apply there too. So yeah, there are existing workarounds, but as you say, this is much neater.