Suggestion: Add support for profile for browser redirection

[icanhasjonas]

Example: safari redirect => chrome app using profile x

Relevant Chrome app launch switches

Example: '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome' --profile-email=user@domain.com

[mshibanami]

Thanks for your feedback! I believe that will be a great feature.

The problem, however, is that there doesn't seem to be an API in Safari for that purpose.

• Safari doesn't support the identity API that allows Chrome extensions to retrieve the profile-email. Specifically, the function chrome.identity.getProfileUserInfo().
• Firefox has also had a profile feature since its initial release, but there seems to be no way to access it via the Web Extension API. I found a Firefox extension called Profile Switcher that allows users to manage their profiles, but it directly accesses the profile folder and makes changes. I believe Redirect Web can't do that because both Safari and Redirect Web operate in the App Sandbox.

I'll dive deeper into this later, but I'm thinking of proposing that the W3C define an API for this in https://github.com/w3c/webextensions. However, it may take time to be approved or could even be denied as it may be controversial regarding user privacy.