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Kelteseth ◴[] No.41809748[source]
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
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varun_ch ◴[] No.41809875[source]
Chrome to Firefox is a relatively easy switch, especially for those that don’t depend on Google sync. The main sources of friction for me were the lack of a good profile switching UI (solved with a browser extension that mimics the Chrome menu), and weird security requirements for homemade extensions (IIRC if you want to have the extension persist after restarting Firefox, you need to sign the extension, which is a pain)

For users switching from Arc, there is no good alternative, but Firefox with Sidebery and custom CSS comes close.

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1. afranchuk ◴[] No.41810087[source]
Note that Firefox profile management is getting an overhaul right now, including an easy profile switching UI. I'm not sure when it will be landing in release, but it is being actively built!
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2. damianh ◴[] No.41825812[source]
This is insanely overdue.
3. damianh ◴[] No.41826622[source]
Which bugzilla # is it. I can only find decades old requests for such a feature that are closed as WONTFIX.