Firefox Multi-Account Containers

#1

Post by rahuldottech » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

Firefox Multi-Account Containers
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Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

#2

Post by brian_herman__ » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 5:59 PM UTC

This has been released a long time ago. The documentation is from 2018. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by skykooler » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 6:00 PM UTC

Is there any way to run this on mobile Firefox? I've loved this on desktop and installed firefox on my Android tablet but this addon shows as "not available".

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by dddddaviddddd » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 6:00 PM UTC

For privacy, I use first-party isolation. The effect is that all domains get their own container. In day-to-day use I haven't seen any sites that don't work with it enabled.

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi.html

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by hosh » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 6:03 PM UTC

I use this less for privacy and more for being able to keep all the different account signins straight. I wish there were support in the bookmark where I can define which bookmark targets which container.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by k__ » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 6:05 PM UTC

dddddaviddddd wrote: post #4

For privacy, I use first-party isolation. The effect is that all domains get their own container. In day-to-day use I haven't seen any sites that don't work with it enabled. https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi.html

I found it quite confusing. Some sites wouldn't be opened in the right container, probably because of some domain shenanigans.

Also, it didn't work on mobile.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by floatingatoll » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

hosh wrote: post #5

I use this less for privacy and more for being able to keep all the different account signins straight. I wish there were support in the bookmark where I can define which bookmark targets which container.

(3 months ago) https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

> With #1537, our next release starts to address container-bookmark integration & UX. As @MichaelTunnell points out, it does not solve ALL of the container-bookmark UX requests in this issue, or in #854 #1142 and #1443.

> Container-bookmark UX is a big project, and some of the solutions will require changes in Firefox itself. Any changes here could introduce tricky bugs both in technical integration and in UX flows.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by Thasc » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 6:07 PM UTC

hosh wrote: post #5

I use this less for privacy and more for being able to keep all the different account signins straight. I wish there were support in the bookmark where I can define which bookmark targets which container.

Same here. I have a work GitHub account, and a personal GitHub account, and am signed into each in a different container. Saves constant logging out and in, or using different browsers for each.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by dddddaviddddd » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 6:08 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #6

dddddaviddddd wrote: post #4

For privacy, I use first-party isolation. The effect is that all domains get their own container. In day-to-day use I haven't seen any sites that don't work with it enabled. https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi.html

I found it quite confusing. Some sites wouldn't be opened in the right container, probably because of some domain shenanigans. Also, it didn't work on mobile.

Are you referring to the multi-container extension? With first-party isolation there's no visual indication of containers. It seems to work on mobile for me (FF Android 68.4.1).

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by lukewrites » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 6:10 PM UTC

What are your favorite ways of setting up containers? At home I have the following containers, each with separate cookies:

  Banking - all finance related stuff

  facebook

  twitter

  amazon - Amazon + AWS + Zappos

  Google - google, gmail, maps