for me, reddit nearly always has way more quality content and news for me though for the time being

It’s not just you.

As constructively as I can put this, reddit has been building community and goodwill for many years. Lemmy has only recently become an option and it’s done wonderfully in the short time it’s had.

The challenge is the catch 22. People go where there is more content, they produce content there, and then there is more content there. There no vacuum, reddit didn’t disappear. It became toxic and people apparently care less about avoiding toxicity than filling up on dank memes.

All I can say to that is we all need to be the change we want to see in the world. Adopt a Lemmy First mentality, and go to reddit only to pick up legacy slack. Continue the conversation from there over here. Link it up.

I have done the same thing with Chrome profiles, and it has the same effect - starts with correct logo then changes.

I’m using ~/.local/share/applications. I tried this in FF and I don’t see it working. Do you have a .desktop file you can share?

That would work for web application type of scenarios, like a YouTube wrapper I think. I’m looking for full blown browser profiles, treated as first class citizens / own application.

For now I decided it’s been long enough and I should try Brave anyway, and haven’t used Firefox in a few years. So I’ll just use Brave for my personal stuff, Chrome for work, and Firefox for non-profit. If I fall in love with one so hard that the others annoy me, I’ll just have to get used to disappointment I guess, or learn to code.

That said… if anyone DOES know a way to do this in Wayland, I’m still interested. It looks like app-id is ignored by KDE, and so far as I can tell there’s no good way to set it anyway. With web browsers being the absolutely dominant application through which most people interface with cloud applications these days, it’s not uncommon to have multiple profiles with many tabs and different workflows. Based on the number of hits I get when researching this feature - absent in all major browsers on Plasma - it seems welcome.

I would say it’s infuriating, but I think I use that word too much.

I have found numerous posts, however this one seems to want the same thing as me, and there have been a few others, all of which suggest it’s not possible.

I can literally drag the shortcuts from the menu to the panel and produce unique icons that way, but when you click an icon that is NOT the chrome icon, it creates a new panel icon for the running program with the classic chrome icon anyway.

You are right, this is a cool idea. I’m digging into it. Might be more work than I want but the functionality is better.

Those are all options. I already use NoMachine to connect to a laptop that can use the VPN, but it occurs to me that literally the ONLY thing I use the laptop for that I couldn’t just do on my host machine are those rare (like once a week or less) activities. It would be a lot more efficient workflow to just power off that laptop and connect to the VPN from the host, and turn it off when I’m done.

If I can’t find a way to make it convenient, I think a little VM is probably the fastest / least intrusive option but kind of a sledgehammer for a finishing nail.