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Yeah, sharing a computer with my girlfriend of the last 7 years isn’t much of a privacy issue as you can imagine and it’s not confusing as long as the taskbar icons are distinct.

The shortcut in the taskbar when you pin a program isn’t the same as a shortcut as you create it when you right click a file and create a shortcut. If you use a workaround to pin the second type of shortcut to your taskbar it doesn’t behave the same way as the first type.

And again, that’s using a workaround that I had to do some research to find, Mozilla’s way would just be up access about:profile each time one of us wants to access our version of the browser.

Even for people who use multiple profiles but don’t share their computer with anyone else, it’s much simpler to have separate icons in the taskbar and the associated windows merged under their respective icons.

To me it becomes a Firefox issue when their competitor offers a much more logical way to deal with profiles.

I’m comparing how it’s handled by Chrome vs Firefox

In Chrome you go to your profile, check a box to confirm that you want separate shortcuts, done and it’s handled properly when merging multiple windows opened by the same user. Each icon is visually distinctive as well.

In Firefox there’s no native solution to have separate icons for each profile, the way to do it is to create a shortcut to the .exe file and to edit the path so the shortcut opens Firefox with a specific profile selected. Because the new shortcut isn’t the “regular one”, the windows don’t merge under the existing profiled icon in the taskbar, they instead add a separate icon in the taskbar where the windows merge, it means that you end up with two icons to open Firefox (one for each profile) and two icons where you actually find the windows currently opened. Add to that the fact that because it’s just “regular shortcuts” under the hood, it ignores the custom icon you’re using to differentiate between profiles (again, because it’s not a native solution) when creating the new icon where the windows are merged. You end up with two profile icons and two default icons and the only way to know which one is yours is to go over it to see what windows are opened underneath. Three users with each one having their own profile? That’s six icons in the taskbar if everyone has windows opened, three of them with the actual instances “in them”, all three using the same icon and they’re not in a specific order.

The (native) alternative AND official way to handle profiles in Firefox? Open about:profile every time you realize you’re browsing under the wrong profile.

There’s no real user-friendly solution. Downloading an extension to fix a UX issue is ridiculous, that’s on the actual devs to make it native. Installing Firefox twice (one beta and one regular) is a waste of space and potentially exposes one of the two users to vulnerabilities from using a pre-release versions of the program.

When I mention that issue the reaction is always the same as yours “Don’t see the issue with it” from people who haven’t compared to the alternative or whose use case has nothing to do with two (or more) person using the same computer and only needing separate browser profiles and having no reason to need separate OS profiles.

You just had to read a couple more replies

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/11464729

Depends, it’s the computer in the common room that’s never locked and it would be a pain in the ass to have to switch OS profile every time one of us wants to check something on the internet that requires access to our personal accounts and bookmarks. The web browser is the only thing that needs to be separated. I don’t think it’s a particularly rare situation that people in the same family share a computer but want separate browser profiles so it’s in sync with their cellphone.

With Chrome we each have an icon in the taskbar and our instances are merged under our respective icon in the taskbar.

With Firefox “vanilla edition” we either need to access about:profile to switch or we can use a workaround to have separate icons in the taskbar but then because it’s not Firefox’s regular icon that we’re using but a shortcut modified to open a specific profile, each shortcut creates a new icon in the taskbar when we click on it and that’s where the instances merge, that means that if we both have instances opened we now have four Firefox icons in the taskbar and because of muscle memory we tend to click on the shortcut instead of the icon where our instance actually is so we end up opening a new instance instead of just opening the instance where we already have our tabs opened.

Sure, but when stuff clearly doesn’t work in a logical way, you would expect devs to correct the program itself instead of relying on extensions.

Just pointing out my experience when mentioning something that could be improved and it fits the meme perfectly.

We don’t use it on the computer we share because profiles work like crap, when I posted about it there were a couple of people saying “Yep, Chrome’s implementation is much better” and a lot of people saying “Just use this extremely convoluted way of half fixing the issue you have with it”

Point out something that could be improved

Be told to just download an extension to fix the issue

Understand why regular people don’t use Firefox

“We do not like clickbait”

Who gave you the authority to speak in the name of the community exactly?

Don’t be sorry, the joke was funny, it’s just that you’re talking to this kind of crowd

You guys have a penguin up your butt or something? It was a good joke

Space: 1999

Space: 1999

Meanwhile people are looking at this guy going WTF?

Private jets is a very small part of airplane pollution and four people travelling in a Chevy Suburban with a big V8 actually use less fuel per km per passenger than the big passenger airplanes use per km per passenger. That’s not even taking non CO2 pollution into consideration.

People in general rely on airplanes way too much, may it be for personal travel or to get shit shipped to them ASAP, it’s not just a rich people issue.

If you deny the atrocities committed by someone then yes, you’re supporting them and their choices.

So we’re just pretending genocides weren’t committed by both sides?

From a governmental point of view, both extremes are responsible for multiple genocides so I’m not even sure which is which in your comment 🤔

And I’m talking about Lemmy’s tankies vs Reddit’s alt-right, since that’s what the conversation was about in the first place.

No, I meant exactly what I said:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insufferable

We were federated with them for a couple of days and their constant spam of insults and images makes them insufferable.