Uh it says I'm on Firefox 52 and can't install this. But I'm on Firefox 59.
Facebook Container for Firefox
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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#12I've been trying to use Firefox's containers for a while. They are pretty clunky - you need to open a blank container tab using a menu and then enter the url. I forget to do that all the time, so after some time you are just logged into everything in the "global" container, or logged in to google and twitter in the same container etc.
If you check the "Always open this page in this container thing" - then it prompts you with an "are you sure you want to open this page in this container" every time you go to that page which is very annoying. Edit - this is not true - there's a checkbox to "remember your choice". I don't know why I didn't see it.
They are error prone enough that they aren't good tracking protection. Just use ublock origin or a similarly good privacy plugin to globally block as much tracking as you can.
The facebook container eliminates some of those annoyances, but only for facebook.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#13Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#14I've been trying to use Firefox's containers for a while. They are pretty clunky - you need to open a blank container tab using a menu and then enter the url. I forget to do that all the time, so after some time you are just logged into everything in the "global" container, or logged in to google and twitter in the same container etc. If you check the "Always open this page in this container thing" - then it prompts…
> then it prompts you with an "are you sure you want to open this page in this container" every time you go to that page which is very annoying.
That isn't true - you say yes/no the first time and then it's automatic. Works great for me.
I create a container for every service I want to stay logged into and whitelist the specified sites with Cookie Autodelete (which is container aware), then auto delete all other cookies on tab close.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#15Is this any different than Firefox's regular container support?
The addon desc ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont... ) says: > Facebook Container leverages the Containers feature that is already built in to Firefox. When you enable Facebook Container, you may also see Containers named Personal, Work, Shopping, and Banking while you browse. If you wish to use multiple Containers, you’ll have the best user experience if you install the Firefox Multi-Acco…
There's a few little extra gubbins in there. See sibling comments
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#16Uh it says I'm on Firefox 52 and can't install this. But I'm on Firefox 59.
You probably have the privacy.resistFingerprinting preference set to true. This spoofs your browser version.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#17I've been trying to use Firefox's containers for a while. They are pretty clunky - you need to open a blank container tab using a menu and then enter the url. I forget to do that all the time, so after some time you are just logged into everything in the "global" container, or logged in to google and twitter in the same container etc. If you check the "Always open this page in this container thing" - then it prompts…
> then it prompts you with an "are you sure you want to open this page in this container" every time you go to that page which is very annoying. That isn't true - you say yes/no the first time and then it's automatic. Works great for me. I create a container for every service I want to stay logged into and whitelist the specified sites with Cookie Autodelete (which is container aware), then auto delete all other cook…
There's a "remember this" checkbox and that worked last time I tried to use it.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#18I've been trying to use Firefox's containers for a while. They are pretty clunky - you need to open a blank container tab using a menu and then enter the url. I forget to do that all the time, so after some time you are just logged into everything in the "global" container, or logged in to google and twitter in the same container etc. If you check the "Always open this page in this container thing" - then it prompts…
> then it prompts you with an "are you sure you want to open this page in this container" every time you go to that page which is very annoying. That isn't true - you say yes/no the first time and then it's automatic. Works great for me. I create a container for every service I want to stay logged into and whitelist the specified sites with Cookie Autodelete (which is container aware), then auto delete all other cook…
Yeah, I'm not getting it after the first "Are you sure?" prompt, but that first one is annoying. I already checked the box asking to always open foo.com in a specific container. Why is it asking again?
Also, I'd love to do this in my bookmarks, instead of having to visit each site and set the container one-by-one.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#19Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#20Unsurprisingly there is no Google container for Firefox
You can use containers for any website / group of webistes.
The specific Facebook-only container extension is for people who don't want to hassle of organizing their containers themselves and only want one for Facebook.