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MacOS: icon per Profile

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paulorafael62
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Hello,

How come that we are in 2023 and we still do not have major features like Chrome's Profiles or Orion Browser's Profiles.

For example, Orion Browser creates an app per profile and this allows MacOS users to customize each app with a different icon. This seems small but on a taskbar we can differentiate the instances faster.

Why is that the best option for managing profiles in Firefox is the Firefox Profile Switcher, a third-party tool supported by a community member?

Will this ever be addressed? Firefox is better than the others in so many things but, for example, even Safari implemented Profiles now.

To be clear: containers are NOT the same thing as profiles and profiles still have an usage. For example, my work profile has no syncs, different extensions and stricter configurations than my personal profile and this cannot be done with containers.

Thank you!

Hello, How come that we are in 2023 and we still do not have major features like Chrome's Profiles or Orion Browser's Profiles. For example, Orion Browser creates an ''app'' per profile and this allows MacOS users to customize each app with a different icon. This seems small but on a taskbar we can differentiate the instances faster. Why is that the best option for managing profiles in Firefox is the [https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher Firefox Profile Switcher], a third-party tool supported by a community member? Will this ever be addressed? Firefox is better than the others in so many things but, for example, even Safari implemented Profiles now. To be clear: containers are NOT the same thing as profiles and profiles still have an usage. For example, my work profile has no syncs, different extensions and stricter configurations than my personal profile and this cannot be done with containers. Thank you!

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Paul
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Hi

Thank you for your question. Worth mentioning that large parts of Mozilla are done by contributors, including this Support Forum - the majority of us are volunteer contributors.

If you want to leave feedback for developers, you can go to the Firefox Help menu and select Share ideas and feedback…. Alternatively, you can use this link. Your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.

You can also file a bug report or feature request. See File a bug report or feature request for Mozilla products for details.