Browser Profiles on Mobile?

I want to use twitter sandboxed in a browser but don’t want to install another browser just for twitter.

Is there any way to create browser profiles on android?

Twitter lite seems to be just that, but can I get a PWA sandboxed in a seperate profile? (a shortcut on home screen)

The best thing I can do is work profile but thats just 1 more profile. It would be nice If can make more. Switching bw android profiles seem to be non-optimal.

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You can’t create profiles on browsers via Android like if it was on desktop. :slightly_frowning_face:

So yeah, the best you can do is creating a work profile or creating multiple user accounts on Android.

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There are numerous options of doing this but yeah none are optimal.

  • using multiple browsers
  • using profiles
  • signing in to different accounts each time

Have you explored something like Fritter? Fritter | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Or Twidere? Twidere | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

I’ve never used them myself but it may be something to throw your way.

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I know it’s not ideal, but maybe it’s better to install another browser for sandboxing Twitter rather than installing the regular Twitter app? There aren’t a lot of Chromium options out there, but I assume you haven’t used all of them. Based on the Techlore interview, maybe Vivaldi can fulfill this use case?

Personally, I would be fine with keeping it in Brave with the rest of my stuff. There are enough walls there that I would comfortable.

We should probably stop referring to “Android” as “mobile” seeing as Safari on iOS 17 does support multiple browser profiles.

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Is there safari for android that supports it?

No, Safari isn’t avaliable in Android.

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If you are looking for a multi-profile browser for Android then check out Second Login:

It supports a separate window for each profile so it’s easy to navigate and maintain. It also has the feature to add a website with profiles to the home screen.

P.S. I am the developer and would love your feedback.

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This seems pretty cool. Useful feature. Will you only be putting it on Google Play? I do not have Google Play services installed. Personally, I prefer it to be open source as well.

multi containers plugin on firefox doesn’t work?

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Normal Firefox?

Do you mind sharing the link to the plugin for mobile?

I think you can install any extension NOW,

before you had to use the debug menu, to set a custom collection, that you can add any plugin to.

I don’t know how much viable this is (mobile UI could be wrong or firefox mobile doesn’t even have that API exposed), but can someone try and let us know?

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No actually I am not able to get Firefox containers on Firefox Android. It just says it isn’t supported.

currently its published on Google Playstore. will be publishing it for Amazon app store soon.

I dont know about it. I wanted to share my app solution. I use this now to manage my clients emails and other accounts.

Would you care to share the source code of the app? Again I do not have any Googled device, and I prefer to stay that way. I also want to know what the app is doing in the background. It has barely any reputation yet. This is why I prefer FOSS apps not closed source.

It doesn’t seem to be making any malicious activity other than sending telemetry as stated in Privacy Policy

In my tests, it did not pass randomized fingerprint on https://fingerprint.com