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?
  • MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world
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    18 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.