I really like being able to manage my profiles within a normal firefox tab. Awesome!
The replacement for the ProfileManager probably needs some UX work, though. It was not clear to me which profile was actually going to be launched if I clicked the "Start Nightly" button. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Andrea Marchesini <amarches...@mozilla.com > wrote: > Hi all, > > This week I landed a set of patches to introduce 'about:profiles'. > This page shows the list of existing profiles and gives the possibility to > create new ones, delete them, rename them, change the default one. > > I wanted to work on this feature because I think having multiple profiles > and manage them with a simple UI is extremely useful and it's important for > web developers who want to test a websites with different logins, people > who care about privacy and want to have different profiles for different > use-case, and so on. > > This page/feature is not meant to be a replacement of containers: > containers have a completely different workflow, it's a major feature of > firefox and I want to see it enabled by default on nightly :) > > I also landed a replacement of the existing ProfileManager, built on top of > about:profiles: instead having a XUL UI, we show a XUL browser element > rendering |about:profiles?manage|. This new profile manager offers the same > features of the previous one. > > There are still a couple of open issues, and maybe more will come. But I'm > working on them and I'm having good feedback. > > b > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
