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A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

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[–] sadreality@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good VPN for IP issue.

"Using separate browsers really is no good practice." can someone provide some support for this?

Mullvad Browser lets you reset the finger print with a click of button.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No that clears browser data, the fingerprint is very complex. If you mean cookies, Librewolf and Firefox can delete all but you can add exceptions where you want to stay logged in. Very handy, also not there in private browsing.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For me its way easier to use a different browser for each use case. Librewolf for something, Mullvad for something else, also Brave, also Vivaldi. 4 different browsers are making my life seriously easy. Why would I stick to 1 browser with many profiles? If something breaks in that one browser (which happens quite often) all I have to do is fire up a different one and try again. Different people different use cases, different streamlines.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If your browser breaks I hope another profile is not broken? Running 4 browsers at a time is seriously problematic for RAM, attack surface, updates etc.

I will do a post on introducing firefox profiles (as they are hidden away) and GUI integration into desktops

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cool. Thanks man. I'm always willing to pick other brains to lessen my ignorance. Looking forward to that post.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In the meantime look at this post about konsole

Use about:profiles in FF to create profiles, run them with firefox -p NAME

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Pretty cool read. I just moved away from Gnome to KDE, so this is spot on with the timing. Thank you.