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Profile Switcher for Firefox VS Temporary Containers

Compare Profile Switcher for Firefox VS Temporary Containers and see what are their differences

Profile Switcher for Firefox logo Profile Switcher for Firefox

Create, manage and switch between browser profiles seamlessly.

Temporary Containers logo Temporary Containers

Firefox Add-on that lets you open automatically managed disposable containers
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    2023-08-02

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Profile Switcher for Firefox and Temporary Containers)
Proxy
25 25%
75% 75
Web Browsers
23 23%
77% 77
Security & Privacy
25 25%
75% 75
Food And Beverage
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Temporary Containers seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 8 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Profile Switcher for Firefox mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Profile Switcher for Firefox yet. Tracking of Profile Switcher for Firefox recommendations started around Feb 2024.

Temporary Containers mentions (8)

  • Tor has teamed up with Mullvad VPN to launch the Mullvad Browser.
    I use the Firefox container extension all day https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers. If this isn't included, it'd be a deal killer for me. I'll check it out. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Reddit and its "privacy".
    You should using Firefox containers, You can containerize ddg or reddit. If you care privacy more than ease then you can use Temporary Container. Source: about 1 year ago
  • is this too many addons?
    I would like to add to the list, Temporary Containers. It's not perfect but at least it's almost like open private tabs in the same window (I don't know why we are in the year 2023 and Firefox still opens private windows instead of private tabs). Source: over 1 year ago
  • The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter — @stevekrenzel
    My current set up is firefox containers, with switch container, and temporary contaners. These containers let me isolate sites, sot hey can't see my cookies from other sites, and things like that. It's like running different sites in different virtual machines. It's also nice to be able to right click > select reddit throwaway account A or main account B or whatever you call your accounts, and you can switch... Source: over 1 year ago
  • “We don’t track you … except for when we get paid for it.”
    Temporary Containers, site This one too has limited use nowadays (which is a good thing), and can get in the way, I still use it as you can have multiple of the same site that have separate cookies. (still doable in plain FF). Source: almost 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Profile Switcher for Firefox and Temporary Containers, you can also consider the following products

Firefox Multi-account Containers - Sign in to two different accounts on the same site

island - a free and opensource alternative to parellel space

Lightbeam for Firefox - Mozilla is the not-for-profit behind the lightning fast Firefox browser. We put people over profit to give everyone more power online.

Session Box - Using websites with multiple accounts at the same time is made easy.

Ghost Browser - Ghost Browser improves your productivity with built in tab management and multi-session browsing so you can log into multiple accounts from one window.

AllAccounts - AllAccounts is an extension that allows Firefox to connect to websites using different user names.