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		droningparrot 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all ... The confusing part of this is there are now two distinct kinds of profiles: the old profiles that you create through about:profiles and the new profiles that you create in this profile switcher, which appear to be nested within the old profile

geoka9 5 months ago [–]

Not only confusing, but also kinda powerful: we now have three(!) levels of indirection: old profiles -> new profiles -> containers :)

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