Firefox 138.0 Release Notes
Firefox 138.0 Release Notes
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Firefox 138.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
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Profile management is going to be useful as a web developer; having easy access to a profile without e.g. adblockers and anti-tracking settings and such to test things, while still having them all available for my regular browsing, is going to be a boon.
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I've been using private windows to get add-on free windows for different things. Profiles would be much neater.
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Private windows already have stricter tracker protection by default, and I also have my blocker extension enabled there as well because I do also use it for other things. And of course, all my settings apply there too. So yeah, there are existing workarounds, but as you say, this is much neater.
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Firefox already had a profile manager, in fact it had it long before Chrome did, but it wasn't a
Fisher PriceChrome-style interface and wasn't accessible from the main browser window.firefox --ProfileManagerwas the way to get to it.I only hope that when the update hits my distro, it doesn't mangle the profiles I already use.
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Yeah that's why I said easy access - I preferred
about:profiles, but in practice that was still too much of a hassle to actually use 😅As far as I can see this is mostly separate from your existing profiles though, as in, those aren't listed in the new UI.
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Seems good
Profile management helps protect your privacy and stay focused by separating your online life into distinct profiles — for work, school, vacation planning, or whatever you choose.
The next bit, U.S. weather, seems to default to AccuWeather, it would be nice if they used Open Meteo or something.
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Presumably they're trying to widen their financial support base with Google potentially being forced to stop supporting them. I agree it would be nice to be able to choose; probably that can be enabled with an addon.
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