Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better

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  • contain-google

    [Looking for maintainer] - Google Container isolates your Google activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Google from tracking you outside of the Google website via third party cookies.

    • The only time I have had friction with profiles, is with some Google SSO as I use an unofficial extension called Google Container and sometimes the redirect just doesn't work.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

  • temporary-containers

    Firefox Add-on that lets you open automatically managed disposable containers

    • https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/618

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  • webapp-manager

    • Surprised no one mentioned Linux Mint's Webapp Manager:

    https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager

    Should be in more distros. Allows some basic tweaking of profiles and supports more than just Firefox (unfortunately not qutebrowser, though).

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