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An Update on Firefox Containers

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Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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Post by executesorder66 »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #4

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 concer…

You can whitelist HN (or whichever site) so you don't have to log in each time.

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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Post by newscracker »

The improvements are very nice, even though some limitations exist. I hope Containers becomes part of Firefox core in the near future.

For anyone wondering about the extension and what’s built into Firefox, here’s a comment on the blog post:

> Graham Perrin wrote on October 3rd, 2017 at 6:22 pm:

>> Containers is now available as a Firefox Extension, …

> Also worth noting: the essentials do not require an extension.

> about:config privacy.userContext.enabled change to true

> privacy.userContext.longPressBehavior change from 0 to 2

> privacy.userContext.ui.enabled change to true

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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Post by throwaway613834 »

randomString1 wrote: post #39

I still think multiple profiles are a better choice. My main profile never keeps cookies and have a very rigid https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js file and only a couple of extensions. I'm very scared about extensions and self-updating scripts so I only keep them isolated. It also helps with organization since I have different bookmarks. I can also "firewall" that profile to never accidentally load websites I don't…

Multiple profiles are such a pain. You don't even get the common history and autocomplete that comes with having a single profile. I've used them for a while with Chrome and they're just too annoying to use. This looks like it could turn out really great.

EDIT: It seems I was unclear in what I was trying to say. I wasn't criticizing multiple profiles in general; I was criticizing using multiple profiles as a replacement for containers. The way I see it, they don't substitute for each other, and they both have their own great use cases.

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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Post by JetSpiegel »

throwaway613834 wrote: post #43
randomString1 wrote: post #39

I still think multiple profiles are a better choice. My main profile never keeps cookies and have a very rigid https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js file and only a couple of extensions. I'm very scared about extensions and self-updating scripts so I only keep them isolated. It also helps with organization since I have different bookmarks. I can also "firewall" that profile to never accidentally load websites I don't…

Multiple profiles are such a pain. You don't even get the common history and autocomplete that comes with having a single profile. I've used them for a while with Chrome and they're just too annoying to use. This looks like it could turn out really great. EDIT: It seems I was unclear in what I was trying to say. I wasn't criticizing multiple profiles in general; I was criticizing using multiple profiles as a replacem…

> You don't even get the common history and autocomplete

That's a feature!

I have observed dozens of time coworkers using their BYOD work laptpos that autocompleted porn URL. Dozens.

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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Post by tomjakubowski »

throwaway613834 wrote: post #43
randomString1 wrote: post #39

I still think multiple profiles are a better choice. My main profile never keeps cookies and have a very rigid https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js file and only a couple of extensions. I'm very scared about extensions and self-updating scripts so I only keep them isolated. It also helps with organization since I have different bookmarks. I can also "firewall" that profile to never accidentally load websites I don't…

Multiple profiles are such a pain. You don't even get the common history and autocomplete that comes with having a single profile. I've used them for a while with Chrome and they're just too annoying to use. This looks like it could turn out really great. EDIT: It seems I was unclear in what I was trying to say. I wasn't criticizing multiple profiles in general; I was criticizing using multiple profiles as a replacem…

Chrome profiles are an absolute joy for splitting between personal/work activities. They also work better for, say, switching between Google accounts than the "inline" Google account switcher, which is often buggy and at least used to have incomplete support (does the Analytics dashboard finally support the account switcher?).

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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Post by JohnBooty »

JetSpiegel wrote: post #45
throwaway613834 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Multiple profiles are such a pain. You don't even get the common history and autocomplete that comes with having a single profile. I've used them for a while with Chrome and they're just too annoying to use. This looks like it could turn out really great. EDIT: It seems I was unclear in what I was trying to say. I wasn't criticizing multiple profiles in general; I was criticizing using multiple profiles as a replacem…

> You don't even get the common history and autocomplete That's a feature! I have observed dozens of time coworkers using their BYOD work laptpos that autocompleted porn URL. Dozens.

You've got to use an entirely separate browser for that IMO. Even with Chrome's totally segregated user profiles, it's too easy to pull up a NSFW URL in the wrong Chrome window and have it pollute your "work" profile.

I use FF for work and a special Chrome profile (not the default one) for anything that shouldn't pop up in my autocomplete in front of coworkers/clients.

That way it's pretty hard to screw up...

Re: An Update on Firefox Containers

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Post by adrianratnapala »

throwaway613834 wrote: post #43
randomString1 wrote: post #39

I still think multiple profiles are a better choice. My main profile never keeps cookies and have a very rigid https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js file and only a couple of extensions. I'm very scared about extensions and self-updating scripts so I only keep them isolated. It also helps with organization since I have different bookmarks. I can also "firewall" that profile to never accidentally load websites I don't…

Multiple profiles are such a pain. You don't even get the common history and autocomplete that comes with having a single profile. I've used them for a while with Chrome and they're just too annoying to use. This looks like it could turn out really great. EDIT: It seems I was unclear in what I was trying to say. I wasn't criticizing multiple profiles in general; I was criticizing using multiple profiles as a replacem…

Hmm, I find it odd that you want cross-noise in your autocompletes. I use the things for doing personal browsing on work machines and find them very convenient.

But on Firefox it seems totally unusable because of near misses in UI. I haven't found a nice menu for switching between profiles, or a way of getting a list of available profiles short of rooting about in my settings. The default profile is can change itself in strange, and will only sometime coincide with the profile called "default".

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