Agreed. While I love containers, they are not an equivalent because they do not separate out the bookmarks, history and sync profile. With Chrome I was able to have a Chrome Profile on my work laptop that syncs to one of the profiles on my desktop computer. The desktop computer had a separate profile for my personal browsing. It worked really well.
The firefox profiles work, but they're too bare bones to ACTUALLY be usable. A few major problems I've had are:
* No easy way to start firefox twice in two separate profiles, while having separate task bar icons (which can optionally be pinned) in Windows 10. I did eventually get it to work by mucking about with creating my own shortcuts, photoshopping the firefox icon, using separate themes on both, etc. On Chrome you can just click the profile manager icon and you're pretty much done.
* When firefox is running twice with separate profiles you can't easily change the default profile. So it's awkward to get links from other applications to open in the firefox instance you want.
* Speaking of, sometimes firefox would just give me the "Firefox is already running" dialog when clicking a link. Only fix I found was to terminate all firefox processes, start my two profiles again and then click the link again.
It would be lovely if firefox made the profiles easier to manage and switch between.
The firefox profiles work, but they're too bare bones to ACTUALLY be usable. A few major problems I've had are:
* No easy way to start firefox twice in two separate profiles, while having separate task bar icons (which can optionally be pinned) in Windows 10. I did eventually get it to work by mucking about with creating my own shortcuts, photoshopping the firefox icon, using separate themes on both, etc. On Chrome you can just click the profile manager icon and you're pretty much done.
* When firefox is running twice with separate profiles you can't easily change the default profile. So it's awkward to get links from other applications to open in the firefox instance you want.
* Speaking of, sometimes firefox would just give me the "Firefox is already running" dialog when clicking a link. Only fix I found was to terminate all firefox processes, start my two profiles again and then click the link again.
It would be lovely if firefox made the profiles easier to manage and switch between.