"Firefox has supported profiles for some time now, each with its own bookmarks, passwords, logins, history, extensions, and themes. What's new is that it's now significantly easier to create and switch between your different profiles. Before, you had to dig fairly deep into the settings menu to manage profiles, which made the feature inaccessible to many users. Next week, you'll see profile management on the browser's main toolbar."
"First, it says, it makes privacy a priority (one of ZDNET's Lane Whitney's favorite things about the browser) by keeping every bit of browsing data separate. To start, Firefox doesn't know "your age, gender, precise location, name of your profile, or other information Big Tech collects and profits from." In addition, each profile is its own session, down to add-ons, settings, and history. Solutions like tab containers work similarly, but it's easy for data to get compromised."
Firefox now offers a simplified profile management system that makes creating and switching profiles significantly easier via the main toolbar. Each profile maintains separate bookmarks, passwords, logins, history, extensions, themes, add-ons, and settings, keeping sessions isolated. The new accessibility addresses previous difficulty where profile controls were buried in settings. The profile separation aims to enhance privacy by preventing cross-profile data access and limiting what the browser knows about users. The approach contrasts with tab-container solutions by keeping credentials and session data confined to their respective profiles to reduce compromise risk.
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