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Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by jethro_tell »

lukewrites wrote: post #10

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

I have a container for each of my prod AWS Accounts. I do a lot of infra work, so being able to compare different accounts, and have them all signed in at once is nice.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by CarelessExpert »

lukewrites wrote: post #10

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

I have containers for: Banking, Google (and the few places where I use Google as my SSO provider), Work, and then a general "I'm Signed In" container.

I also use the Temporary Containers extension for added privacy, though it's... still pretty rough around the edges, particularly when dealing with sites that use SSO (since kicking out to an OAuth provider causes a new temporary container to be opened, which then messes up the auth flow).

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by jethro_tell »

skykooler wrote: post #3

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".

I don't think so, I am set up on mobile to use a password safe for account login, then I delete all cookies and state on log out. So when the browser opens, there's usually nothing in it, and then the signing for the site I want to go to is auto filled making login pretty simple, then I quit on close.

That's the best I've been able to do so far.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by msoloviev »

I made a fork of this that gives you some additional control over how links are treated - specifically, you can set it up different rules for what container to open a page in depending on what container it was opened from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-wi...

The rationale is that you rarely want pages that you open from random Facebook posts or Reddit submissions, or pages that you arrive at by following more links from those, to have access to your Facebook or Reddit login information.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by DavideNL »

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

One step further: 'Temporary Containers', it trashes the container when you close the tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Specified sites can still be opened in specific containers, and not be trashed.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by no_protocol »

I can forgive the somewhat limited user interface for setting these up that is in the stock add-on, but the lack of automatic syncing of rules to all computers with the same Firefox account is really frustrating to deal with.

Putting in the effort to get them all set up nicely and then having them either blown away (I think this happened once...) or needing to get that over to another computer has made me limit my use to fewer containers than I probably would otherwise use.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by tomashubelbauer »

lukewrites wrote: post #10

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

I have a container per domain of sites that I visit regularly. Right now I'm at about 40 containera.
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