AllagashSage What would you like to propose?
Allow me to hide additional profile app icons
New to Orion, so my experience is freshly limited. I landed here in search of a way to copy settings to another profile (may be better to use the default profile's settings, with any in-profile settings to have precidence). For me, Tab poliferation is a serious problem but I've found Safari's implementation difficult to utilize. Inevitably, my ADHD doesn't respect the profile and I end up with a mess of tabs. I've used multiple browsers in the past for discrete tasks that I can toggle to using the app-swither, so I like Orion's implementation (though would like the ability to move an entire window to another profile). Different methods of working should be supported when possible, so perhaps a hybrid approach would work. Something like Collections within a Profile could implement a similar set of features.
Evaluating Orion for now and the fact that there are 2 icons is difficult to understand for me.
I like arc implementation a lot to manage profiles but important thing finally is to get only one dock icon.
Safari's implementation a good compromise, since it's easy to switch from one window to another once it's executed.
On the other hand, having to think about which profile I want to use in order to choose which icon to click seems counter-intuitive.
I'd second the suggestion to handle profiles closer to Arc or Safari. Multiple dock icons, while I've read the benefits, feels like a cluttered overall UX day to day. Seems like most on here agree.
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useroffline Seems like most on here agree.
No? Maybe of the posts in this thread, but separate dock icons is practically the only reason I use Orion. It is the killer feature that no other browser has.
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LoganDark Is there a way to choose either or both? I feel the opposite and I'm hesitant on using Orion because of the amount of profile icons. Maybe a compromise would be to also have Firefox-like containers that separate the assets/cookies based on topic and let users choose how they want to use the browsers? I've tried using the Firefox containers add-on but it wasn't working too well and I uninstalled it.
The way I see it, it makes sense to have a clear profile divide in places like Work and Personal. They are totally different subjects for many people. However, within each of those profiles there are different kinds of web traffic, like social media, banking, shopping, etc... It just seems cumbersome to divide those into completely different profiles.
I agree that completely separate profiles is also a killer feature that other browsers don't have -- I just wish there were more granular features as well.
We are quite concerned about privacy, and for us, the only real solution is the complete separation of profiles.
However, the creation of new icons can indeed be unpleasant for some users. We designed this with classic profiles in mind: private, work, very-private ... but not for 30 different profiles.
We may come up with a different solution in the coming months.
Arc uses sliding 'spaces' to move between profiles...that seems very intuitive to me.