Let’s head #behindVivaldibrowser with Guðmundur Már Gunnarsson.
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In our latest behind-the-scenes chat, we meet one of our great Icelandic developers Guðmundur Már Gunnarsson, aka gmg.
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Profiles are a cool feature. They are also handy for testing. Make a new temp one an you can sort of simulate what a new/clean version of the browser is like, since they have their own set of settings.
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gmg is also great at discussing needs / features / bugs with the forum members that like testing all the great things he and the team are adding to mail, making us feel connected to the development. If ducks had thumbs, I'd raise them all. Plus some floppy feet.
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@Ruarí said in Let’s head #behindVivaldibrowser with Guðmundur Már Gunnarsson.:
since they have their own set of settings.
Except for flags ... which is easy to forget when troubleshooting, as they are shared between all profiles under the current User Data. Often users have set flags and forgot about them, then we ask them to test in a clean profile and hey ho the same issue appears because of a flag-induced problem
Just something to be aware of for us troubleshooters.
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@Pathduck well indeed, for the complete win
--user-data-dir=
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@WildEnte
Except if course on the day this gets posted since that's when I take a day off
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@Ruarí
After your talk about profiles (essentially another browser instance, separate settings/extensions), workspace (browser instance with same settings/extensions), tab stacks (group of tabs within window), sessions (backup of tabs with history), bookmarks (backup of tabs without history) maybe I'll have to pick some more favorites. -
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Profiles are really useful. Would be nice though if we had a way to select the startup profile through some command line option.
Not having this option, I use the --user-data-dir option (in my .desktop files) and have different directories for my profiles (work, personal, ...).
Also, profiles on mobile version would be nice; in the meantime, I use both the stable and snapshot apps to serve this purpose.
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@gmg
Thank you for the frank words.