Create(organize a bit) and use diferent Firefox or Chrome profiles.
To start a Firefox instance with profile work :
foxer work
If this is first time you run it then this will create a profile work, under the
$HOME/profiles/browers path. Then start the browser.
Next time, browser will start using this profile.
Firefox adds -ff sufix.
Chrome adds -gc suffix.
Path to the profile $HOME/profiles/browers/work-ff.
For Chrome use chromer
Sweet one-liner to choose the profiles with fzf
foxer "$(ls $HOME/profiles/browsers | while read folder ; do echo "${folder%-ff}" ; done | while read folder; do ech
o "${folder%-gc}" ; done | fzf)"
Default path to folder with profiles: ~/profiles/browsers
You can change that with setting FOXER_PROFILES ENV variables
FOXER_PROFILES=~/profiles/browsers
How to organize many tabs, logins, extensions, and bookmarks for different use contexts and have little mess?
I have checked many browser plugins, they are ok. In the end, they don't do the job. Some of them don't work well with other plugins I use (i.e. OneTab breaks TabGroups completely). Some have strange glitches. Simply things are not so smooth.
When I work, I don't want to mix private logins with work logins. A similar thing is with bookmarks or used tabs. It would be awesome to have, like a browser for work, a browser for project X, for fun, and reading news.
Also, it would be cool, if I could all the profiling that is done by the ad companies could be limited. The best option would be if it could mess up with their profiling algorithms. At least it's a nice dream.
There is already something like that. It's called a profile. Each browser has profiles. The only problem is the switching. The switch is always the problem. So why even switch? We can start many browser instances, each with a different profile. I created a simple script Foxer for that.
Say, I want to start work-related browser:
foxer work
News?
foxer news
With Bash alias, you can make a command work_browser and
bam! One command to start the work.
Also, you gain a bit of control over the profiles.
By default, they go to ~/profiles/browsers.
So there are problems too. You have to back up your profiles. Periodically the best.
A profile is connected to the browser version. To read it, you need a browser with the proper version. Sometimes, newer versions of browsers will change a profile into a total mess. There are no undo buttons.
So, it is advised to keep an archive with the browser, with the same version, you are using.
Some things need attention. It would be sweet to have plugins installed from some folder, bundle, or list. It would be sweet to have plugins installed from some folder, bundle, or list. The icons could also be different for different profile (I don't think it's possible).
- Periodic cookie cleaning.
- Loading sets of plugins.
- How to deal with evercookie? ( https://github.com/przor3n/evercookie )