On desktop-firefox, there are profiles in about:profiles and now there is a new entry in the menu with profiles but these profiles don’t show up in about:profiles and the menu-profiles are like a sub profile of about:profiles-profile. I can find this https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/profile-management/ [https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/profile-management/] but I can’t find anything regarding the differentiation of them and are the old about:profiles-profiles going to be discontinued? what is the difference?
  • Deebster
    3·
    12 days ago

    Are you on Linux? I know that Firefox 147 has XDG Base Directory Spec support so perhaps there’s something funky happening with the new location.

    • illusionist@lemmy.zipOP
      2·
      12 days ago

      Yes, I am high on linux. It’s the flatpak version.

      Sounds like a weird bug, because both methods work

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    macOS here. I vaguely remember there being a home profile and some kind of default profile, that was meant to be for whatever? Not really sure. Right now I just have two that I actively use. Maybe I wasn’t supposed to delete the default one.

  • MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world
    2·
    12 days ago

    These new profiles that can be accessed through menu are not exactly sub-profiles, but I think more like sibling-profiles forming a profile group. Profiles in the same group know about each other, so in the UI you can switch between them and I think there are some settings that can be shared between the profiles in the same group.

    I don’t know of any plans to deprecate the old profile system, nor about:profiles for managing them.