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My biggest usage is Chrome profiles. I use several for various personal and work accounts which means passwords, history, extensions, open sessions, and everything else are all nicely contained under separate Chrome windows.

Nothing else comes close to this kind of convenience and UX, and it's more secure since accounts are not co-mingled.

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That sounds the same as Firefox profiles, plus Firefox has containers for more sectioning of data within a profile. Is there something Chrome has here that Firefox doesn’t?

Chrome profiles avoids having to create another (Firefox) account to manage the sync and data. Also Chrome has an easy menu for switching profiles and creates desktop/taskbar shortcuts for them. Firefox requires going to the about:profiles settings page to manage them. Also chrome profiles are integrated with G-Suite including security and organization settings.

Overall Chrome's version is just smoother and easier to use compared to Firefox. Mozilla should add better UI/menus and SSO for Firefox Accounts to get closer.

Unlike Chrome profiles, multiple Firefox containers can be used in the same window. Containers are different from profiles:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Containers are also extensible through add-ons. For example, the following two add-ons automatically isolate Facebook and Google into separate containers to reduce the impact of their tracking:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

Temporary Containers goes further by allowing the user to create disposable containers either automatically or on demand:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Firefox's two-tier approach (profiles and containers) to data isolation is much more flexible than Chrome's profiles. Containers handle many common use cases (e.g. logging on to the same site with multiple accounts simultaneously), and are very easy to use.

I don't want to mix usages in the same window though. The container features are nice, but they don't make up for the fact that Firefox profiles are still harder to use in general.

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