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Until other browsers offer a proper built-in UI for managing multiple profiles as a first-class citizen, there's little chance that I'll switch from Chrome.

About once a year I give another browser a try for a few weeks. I go all in, utilizing whatever features are unique to the browser instead of trying to use it like Chrome. But I have yet to find anything that compensates for the loss of easy profile switching.

Unless Firefox adds a built-in profile switching UI or Chrome becomes literally unusable, there's just no way I can justify switching. The loss in productivity is too significant.




In case this helps somewhat, Firefox has a CLI triggered GUI for profile management and switching, which will let you run Firefox in multiple profiles concurrently:

firefox --no-remote -P




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