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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok, telling people to open a command line and TYPE firefox -P is HARD. In chrome you just click the icon in the upper right and select whatever profile you want.

It makes no sense that you have to either open about:profiles then select "launch in new window" or open the command line to start a new profile, makes NO sense at all.

You can open a firefox private window with a keyboard shortcut, but if you want to be logged into two different accounts in two different profiles, you have to go through a minimum of three non-intuitive steps.

Even the extension that adds the profile switching doesn't work anymore because it's not maintained.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dude, if that's all-caps HARD, then I don't know how you'd classify, say, compiling things from source and fixing any problems that might crop up along the way. Or fixing missing DLL / OCX hell when trying to get an old Windows game running under Linux, because let me tell you, I've done both of those and had to give up. firefox -P is heaven by comparison.

You could even put it into a shortcut and you wouldn't have to type it any more.

Yes the interface sucks, but HARD is not it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but you know most people do not have to do what you just described.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most people don't need multiple profiles either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Fair enough