Are multiple browser profiles possible in Safari?

Yep, would be really nice to have such ability in Safari. Me as web developer always have such cases when i need to run the same one web site with different cookies simultaneously.

+1 This is the only feature preventing me from using Safari for all of my browsing needs.

@ijamessaxon details the benefits perfectly.

If the only issue is that you need separate bookmarks, then I'd suggest creating multiple folders. My husband and I each have our own set of bookmarks for our separate interests - one folder with his name, one with mine. You can easily create sub-folders as well to organize/categorize your bookmarks. Works really well for me.

We're also set up as separate users, but since he's usually signed in and we use the same applications I typically just stay in "his" Safari browser and save "my" bookmarks in "my" folders.

The only inconvenience to this (so far) is that I need to import bookmarks from "his" Safari browser into "my" Safari browser when I sign in as myself. An extra bit of housekeeping. But given that I typically use Chrome as my browser, and I already have to import Safari bookmarks to Chrome, it's not that big a deal to me.

I totally agree with others, however, that Apple needs to modernize Safari to allow for multiple browser profiles. Chrome is SO much better than Apple when it comes to this sort of thing! Apple updates these days seem to emphasize integration across Apple devices at the expense of the many who use one Apple device only. So Mac users with Android phones, Windows laptops, etc. are SOL. For that matter, iPhone users with Windows PCs etc are also SOL.

In general I find it frustrating how little customizing Apple allows. I'm a recent refugee from the Windows PC world (operating system froze and couldn't be thawed, so I finally bit the bullet and got an iMac. From what I've seen online so far, it appears you need to learn Unix so you can write Terminal commands in order to (maybe) do things that should be menu options in the first place. If I'm missing the obvious -- always possible for a newbie like myself -- please feel free to tell me what I'm missing. :-)

I found this thread when searching to see how to replicate Chrome's multi-user feature in Safari. This is important for BYOPC scenarios; so this is a polite feature request. Unfortunately, I need to stick to Chrome until then.

Thanks!

Well put! I don't understand why Apple is so insensitive about this issue, especially since it's so basic. Then again, now that Apple is getting such a huge chunk of revenue from selling iPhones in China, perhaps modernizing Safari has been deemed too trivial to warrant a place on Apple's radar screen....

Nice one Jay! Perfect response... 🙂