How to manage too many browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi
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@guigirl I use the stable release versions of FF. I can launch into whatever profile I want, not be forced into launching whichever profile(s) that were open last time I used it. And each profile can be launched as its own instance, allowing me to quickly and easily flip between profiles as if they were separate apps (because, as separate instances, they are) and have them be separate icons on the dock. Those things can’t be done in a Chromium-based browser.
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@ayespy It used to be that businesses actually sought out opinions from people who didn’t use their product as to why, so they could address those reasons and to improve their products. It used to be called market research. Perhaps business has changed to where growing the customer base of your product by improving it and addressing customer and potential customer needs and desires is no longer of interest to businesses.
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@ldmartin1959 said in How to manage too many browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi:
Those things can’t be done in a Chromium-based browser.
Just install Vivaldi as a Standalone version for as many different users/profiles as you need.
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@ldmartin1959 said in How to manage too many browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi:
Those things can’t be done in a Chromium-based browser.
They can if you add the
--profile-directory="Profile #"
switch (where # is the number each new profile is associated with) to each new shortcut's command line. -
@npro Not sure that is an option on a Mac. Would that prevent the last active profile from opening simultaneously with the specified profile? And would it launch each profile as it’s own instance? The issue isn’t JUST launching a specified profile, that’s just part of the issue. And I don’t mind temporary workarounds, but I don’t accept the widely held notion that a “workaround” is an actual “solution”, and relieves the developers of the need to develop a real solution simply because they can point at the workaround and say, see, a solution.
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@npro Not sure that is an option on a Mac. Would that prevent the last active profile from opening simultaneously with the specified profile? And would it launch each profile as it’s own instance? The issue isn’t JUST launching a specified profile, that’s just part of the issue. And I don’t mind temporary workarounds, but I don’t accept the widely held notion that a “workaround” is an actual “solution”, and relieves the developers of the need to develop a real solution simply because they can point at the workaround and say, see, a solution.
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@pesala not sure I understand what you’re meaning. Vivaldi cannot be installed multiple times aside it were a different application each time. It will simply over right existing version. If you are meaning make multiple copies of Vivaldi in the application directory, The problem would be that they still share a common set of support files and will still behave exactly the same way as every other renamed coffee. If you are referring to installing the beta and development versions alongside the release version, that would work so long as I am only needing to use three separate profiles. I currently need and use more than that with Firefox.
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@ldmartin1959 You can install Vivaldi Stable & Vivaldi Snapshot side by side on Mac, that's all.
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@ldmartin1959 I fear that reference compares apples to rutabaga.
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@ldmartin1959 said in How to manage too many browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi:
Not sure that is an option on a Mac
Most switches are OS agnostic or otherwise explicitly stated so it should work just fine.
Would that prevent the last active profile from opening simultaneously with the specified profile?
Of course, one shortcut would link to the main profile "Default", the next one to "Profile 1" etc.
And would it launch each profile as it’s own instance?
Why would you need such thing in the first place as every tab is its own process and sandboxed, but in that case you could use the
--user-data-dir
switch and specify different profile locations for each profile.I don’t accept the widely held notion that a “workaround” is an actual “solution”
Chromium switches are not "workarounds" they 're part of the browser tweaking, similar to what you can do with
about:config
in Firefox. -