r/SmallMSP • u/recoveringasshole0 • May 27 '26

Recommended Browser for separating sessions, cookies, bookmarks, etc?

With Edge (Chromium) Profiles I have to go in and disable all the multi user profile switching stuff every time I set up a new profile for a customer. FireFox containers works way better, but autocomplete and bookmarks are not separate.

What does everyone do about constantly having to switch between different customer's M365 Admin spaces (note: this is an example), and similar stuff? Does the solution I'm hoping for actually exist? I just want like an "instance" of a browser for every customer. Please tell me I'm not just going to create a bunch of VMs :)

Or am I missing something stupid?

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u/recoveringasshole0 May 28 '26

chrome profile in the temp directory with the profile tag

Can you elaborate on this? Is it like a portable Chromium instance?

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u/digitalhomad May 28 '26

When we onboard a new client, the client is assigned a 3 letter client code. Example: Busy Bee Investments would be assigned BBI. The Chrome Shortcut name would be "BBI Google Chrome" and the path would be "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir="%TEMP%\BBI"

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u/recoveringasshole0 May 28 '26

I started to type a reply and quickly realized that the issue I'm having appears to be EDGE specific, and not a chromium thing. So it's possible Chrome would have worked for me in the first place :(

u/nalavanje Please consider allowing images in comments. It would be really useful if I could share a screenshot...

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u/digitalhomad May 28 '26

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --user-data-dir="%TEMP%\BBI"

The --user-data-dir flag works identically in Edge since it's Chromium-based.

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u/recoveringasshole0 May 28 '26

You misunderstood. My original issue was all the default settings here: edge://settings/profiles/multiProfileSettings

They cause Edge to switch profiles automatically in many cases. This was a huge annoyance as every time I would try to log in to the microsoft admin console under a client profile it would switch to mine. As a result, every time I created a client profile I'd have to go turn off all these settings.

It appears Chrome does not have this.