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Re: Container Tabs

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Post by Sylos »

jbverschoor wrote: post #70

I'm long searching for a solution to do this is a much broader way.. On the OS level. Private Work A Work B Work C Ideally it would seem like a different user. (Filesystem, cmd-tab). But easily accessible like the three finger swipe. Fast user switching doesn't cut it. I even tried logging in on my local machine using VNC or remove desktop.. Is having 4 VMs the only way?

Yet another potential solution, if you're on Linux. This is more on the accessible side of things, it doesn't do separation as much as you would like it:

KDE Plasma has what they call "Activities". In its basic idea, it's kind of like fancy desktop workspaces. So, it does separate your windows into workspace-like groups, but you can also set what files and widgets are displayed on the desktop on a per-Activity basis.

So, you don't have a different filesystem, but you can have a folder or multiple folders displayed on each Activity's desktop. Also, shortcuts to different applications, including for example Firefox profiles, as well as different sets of widgets, for example I like to use the little post-it note widgets to write things down on.

And yeah, with that you can then just switch between Activities via a simple keyboard shortcut or by clicking an Activity-selector on your panel (if you've put one there).

Re: Container Tabs

#142

Post by mverwijs »

TheDong wrote: post #100
nikcub wrote: post #94

This is a neat idea but it doesn't implement the main reason I use separate profiles in Chromium - different security contexts based on how much you trust a site. Example: my main general browsing profile has flash, PDFs and all plugins disabled, absolutely all handlers switched off, all hardware access off, WebGL switched off, no account logins and uBlock Origin set to aggressively block most third-party requests. M…

The firefox feature of `--no-remote -P` is the way to do that, which has existed since before the chrome browser did. Old feature. This feature is not meant to solve that use-case since if your case is security, you need separate browsers/contexts/proceses anyways. Separate profiles in firefox implement separate profiles (which may all be independently open side-by-side in different windows). This exchanges less secu…

Old perhaps, but userfriendly this is not.

Re: Container Tabs

#143

Post by Certhas »

icebraining wrote: post #84
JohnBooty wrote: post #22

I am a Mozilla supporter and FF is my "daily driver" browser. Very interested in this feature. Chrome has had it for a years, and it's a killer feature for many developers. It's very very useful to have multiple browser windows open, each logged into the same site as a different user. A lot of people do this by opening multiple browsers (FF, Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc) but that has its limits and it just adds another…

Chrome has had it for a years, and it's a killer feature for many developers. It's very very useful to have multiple browser windows open, each logged into the same site as a different user. A lot of people do this by opening multiple browsers (FF, Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc) but that has its limits and it just adds another variable my poor brain would prefer not to handle. Firefox has had this since, well, forever; t…

Indeed, I have several firefox profiles and corresponding launch scripts:

ff-home contains:

firefox -P home

etc...

Each of them has a different theme so the windows are clearly visually different.

Re: Container Tabs

#144

Post by [deleted] »

scrollaway wrote: post #10
grenoire wrote: post #4

I would love this feature and it would actually get me to switch to Firefox in a heartbeat. I'm currently using Chrome just because of the the (subjectively) better developer tools, but this is a feature that would make my life so much easier!

Firefox tab management is lackluster compared to Chrome; container tabs won't change that :/ Every time I try using Firefox I pretty quickly hit the limitation on selecting tabs. Chrome lets you select tabs like files in a file manager: Shift click for ranges, ctrl+click for adding/removing single tabs. You can then drag & drop the group in or out of various windows, close all at once, etc. Container tabs imho won't…

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Re: Container Tabs

#145

Post by drc0 »

mverwijs wrote: post #142
TheDong wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The firefox feature of `--no-remote -P` is the way to do that, which has existed since before the chrome browser did. Old feature. This feature is not meant to solve that use-case since if your case is security, you need separate browsers/contexts/proceses anyways. Separate profiles in firefox implement separate profiles (which may all be independently open side-by-side in different windows). This exchanges less secu…

Old perhaps, but userfriendly this is not.

there are extensions like switchy that handle the UX part in a reasonable way.

Re: Container Tabs

#146

Post by drc0 »

the thing I blame is that ctrl+t on a container opens a new tab of the default container and not the one that is currently on focus.

Re: Container Tabs

#147

Post by Sylos »

therealmarv wrote: post #23

Tech question: Does Firefox has technical process seperation of tabs nowdays? This is one of the main features of Chrome since 1.0 and just want to know if Firefox has something similar finally.

The foundational work is there, it's currently still going through testing, although you can already manually enable it and it works rather well, but as of right now it's not planned to have complete separation for each individual tab, as that just chews up a lot of resources with relatively little gain in performance.

What's planned instead, is to use a set number of processes across all tabs. So, if this would be two processes, then every other tab will share a process with one another. And they'll probably have around 5 processes for tabs at a maximum once this is fully rolled out, at least for the foreseeable future.

You can manually change this maximum number of processes in about:config, though. And if you do set it to something like 500, i.e. just a very big number that you're not likely to hit in number of tabs, then it will separate each tab into its own process, with whatever performance problems come with that.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by Sylos »

lmedinas wrote: post #68

Anyone know when this feature is planned to hit Beta or Stable ?

Do you mean officially considered beta/stable quality or just that it's there in the Beta or Stable version, so that you don't have to migrate to a less stable version of Firefox in order to use it?

If it's the latter, there's two preferences that you can flip in about:config to enable it (even in Firefox Stable): privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled

Mind though that since this feature is currently still under active development, that it might actually be less error-prone in the normally less stable versions of Firefox.

Re: Container Tabs

#150

Post by Sylos »

richardboegli wrote: post #18
altano wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome actually already has this feature in the form of profiles. See the top-right icon.

Yes it does and I have been using this. But it seems to be per window not tab. Unless I've missed something?

Yeah, this is actually distinctly different from Chrome's profiles. Firefox does already have an equivalent to Chrome's profiles [0], so it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to implement this, if it wasn't different.

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

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