Is this an update to the UI for profiles that have existed since before Firefox was Firefox? I use them a lot, but it’s a little tricky to get them set up and be able to use them concurrently. It’s awesome if they’re getting some love.
If it’s not that, then how does it compare, and will the old profiles be depreciated?
I perceive the new profile system more as a extended capability of the old profiles than completely new and different thing. Although for a typical user it probably seems like a new feature since previously the profiles were quite invisible.
With new profiles, each profile will have a profile group they belong to, which means roughly “these profiles are linked”. Profile data is stored in separate directories just as before, but the linked profiles can open browser instances of each other and they can have some information shared between them, such as shared preferences, which is stored separately from the profiles themselves. I don’t think it’s there yet, but I believe you could then also have a profile-1 to open new tab in profile-2 etc.
Different Firefox versions can’t share profiles in the same group, so release Firefox has its own group, Developer Edition has its own group etc. In addition, I believe this new profiles capability is limited to “standard” profiles only, i.e. those that are stored in the default location and/or are reachable via profile-manager. They cannot be used with profiles loaded from arbitrary directories via command-line flags.
Is this an update to the UI for profiles that have existed since before Firefox was Firefox? I use them a lot, but it’s a little tricky to get them set up and be able to use them concurrently. It’s awesome if they’re getting some love.
If it’s not that, then how does it compare, and will the old profiles be depreciated?
I perceive the new profile system more as a extended capability of the old profiles than completely new and different thing. Although for a typical user it probably seems like a new feature since previously the profiles were quite invisible.
With new profiles, each profile will have a profile group they belong to, which means roughly “these profiles are linked”. Profile data is stored in separate directories just as before, but the linked profiles can open browser instances of each other and they can have some information shared between them, such as shared preferences, which is stored separately from the profiles themselves. I don’t think it’s there yet, but I believe you could then also have a profile-1 to open new tab in profile-2 etc.
Different Firefox versions can’t share profiles in the same group, so release Firefox has its own group, Developer Edition has its own group etc. In addition, I believe this new profiles capability is limited to “standard” profiles only, i.e. those that are stored in the default location and/or are reachable via profile-manager. They cannot be used with profiles loaded from arbitrary directories via command-line flags.