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Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by Krasnol »

msoloviev wrote: post #14

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…

Perfect! This is the functionality I've been looking for. I already had a container addon for Amazon and Facebook for this which should be unnecessary and with your fork it is.

Thank you.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by screaminghawk »

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

Personal, Banking, Work Place 1, Work Place 2, Junk (for social media) and then a couple others as spares

My key use of this is to manage multiple login sessions to the same site. Having a bunch of spare containers lets me do this in the same browser window. And I don't have to worry about closing them (compared to using private browsing)

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by jabroni_salad »

mikece wrote: post #28
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

Or if you're a consultant working on mobile apps for different clients, having separate containers for each client allows you to be in all of the client's Google Play Console at the same time in one browser. (Or in multiple accounts/logins of Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Outlook, etc...)

This is my use case also. I have 14 O365/Azure dashes to wrangle and this is the only good way to do it.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by Tomte »

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

Pretty much those, plus WhatsApp (distinct from Facebook), because I don't use Facebook, except as being tracked across the Web, but I'm using WhatsApp Desktop extensively, and wanted that separated.

I might add separate containers for separate Twitter accounts, because the multiple account UI on Twitter's web site is atrocious, IMO. I'm constantly "in the wrong account".

At work I set up a container for all the domains and servers my company uses versus everything else.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by jackinloadup »

DavideNL wrote: post #16
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.

I use Temporary Containers all day. Love this addon. This is fantastic not only for privacy/security for everyday use but also great for testing sites while doing development. It becomes really easy to be logged into all the different types of users in a website at the same time and see the interaction.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by sebazzz »

Firefox Multi-Account contains are awesome for software development and testing! At my work we usually work at tools which have three roles: user, reviewer, administrator so I generally have three containers for these user accounts. This means I can be logged in with all the accounts I need for testing in the same web browser without resorting to private mode (which does not remember cookies between sessions anyway).

In addition, I use the temporary container add-on[0] which also uses containers, but throws them away after being used (like reference counting).

These two tools have seriously improved my ability to both develop and test applications without the hassle of logging out and logging in all the time or needing any tricks when needing multiple clean browsing sessions.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by acdha »

This a really useful extension for working with multiple cloud service accounts (e.g. AWS assumes a global session, GCP theoretically supports multiple logins but it's in the usual Google NOQA zone where many things break) but there's a really important limitation to know about: the container configuration isn't synchronized with your account. This means that if anything reset your Firefox profile (like that bug they had last year) or if you use multiple computers, you'll be spending a lot of time duplicating the configuration:

See https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by golf1052 »

msoloviev wrote: post #14

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…

This seems really similar to the Facebook container (made by Mozilla, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...) and the Google container (a fork of the previous, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...)

The annoying thing about your extension is that the end-user would need to know about and update the domains they want to keep isolated. It would be great if all these extensions/features were built into the original extension and there were updating isolation lists similar to the uBlock Origin lists (EasyList, Peter Lowe's list, etc.).

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by groovybits »

I love this feature... on one machine at a time.

Without a built-in sync feature, I continue to use the simplest form of cookie management: Private Windows.

I know there's been some discussion on sync: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3....

As of Dec 2019, it looks like some traction will be coming to syncing just Containers and Site Assignments (which I believe would perfectly suffice most basic needs).

If anyone really wanted to keep an eye on sync, I'm guessing these features will be committed to their syncserver, when available: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver.

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