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An Update on Firefox Containers

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Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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These look really cool. I've had Self-Destructing Cookies (or Webextension equivalent) on Firefox for awhile now to try to combat this problem, but it is a bit annoying that if I inadvertently close HN's tab or navigate away from it because I followed a URL, I need to log back in. Containers might eventually give me enough segmentation that I can feel confident with staying logged into some stuff without being concerned that all the cookies are talking to each other.

Might still want something that deletes all cookies when the entire container is closed, though.

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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They mentioned my main peeve about containers: IMO control-T should open a new tab in the current container rather than in the default container. They implied that this could be fixed in an extension and linked some extensions, but those extensions appear to do other things. Has anybody found an extension that changes the control-T behaviour? Thanks.

Edit: They've totally got the default right. Pressing control-T from a banking container should not open a new tab in the banking container. It's just that's not my use case.

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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They mentioned my main peeve about containers: IMO control-T should open a new tab in the current container rather than in the default container. They implied that this could be fixed in an extension and linked some extensions, but those extensions appear to do other things. Has anybody found an extension that changes the control-T behaviour? Thanks. Edit: They've totally got the default right. Pressing control-T fro…

Seems to work that way now with the extension and now you can assign sites to different containers so they auto open in the correct tab.

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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Does anyone have any advice on how best to use this? Is it really best to make all shopping websites open in the same containers? Any thoughts on what sites/kinds of sites should definitely be in their own containers. Any recommended categories besides the default container categories?

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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post #8

Does anyone have any advice on how best to use this? Is it really best to make all shopping websites open in the same containers? Any thoughts on what sites/kinds of sites should definitely be in their own containers. Any recommended categories besides the default container categories?

I would have a container for each of my major social network / email accounts, like one container for each of twitter, Google and Facebook.

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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post #8

Does anyone have any advice on how best to use this? Is it really best to make all shopping websites open in the same containers? Any thoughts on what sites/kinds of sites should definitely be in their own containers. Any recommended categories besides the default container categories?

I would have a container for each of my major social network / email accounts, like one container for each of twitter, Google and Facebook.

Yes, and then do your browsing in non-containers so that browsing is isolated from the account logins, and vice versa.
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