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Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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I think containers (that Firefox already has) are a much better way to handle this. Profiles, art least the way they are implemented on chrome, feels like a massive downgrade.
It depends on how much separation you need. If you want different bookmarks, history, or settings per, then I believe you need profiles to make that happen.
Ah, makes sense. I don't mind sharing history and have never used bookmarks or customized any settings.
You can use containers all you want, just don't create another profile and you're golden.
This is what I do now, just trying to figure out why ff keeps spending time on profiles. Do they have any advantages over containers?
because it's useful for people who are not you
Different set of cookies, different set of preferences, bookmarks, history, etc. If you need to completely separate two instances, for example one for work and one for everything else, you can only do it with profiles
For highly technical users containers are going to do everything we need.
For non technical users who need separation, profiles are a standard known framework.