Pair it with "containerise" ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/ ). With containerise, you can easily edit a text file (host, container name) to create/edit/backup multiple containers.
This is great!
Firefox Multi-Account Containers
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Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers
#42I 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…
Same here, love this feature and use it daily! Hoping for a sync capability in the near future.
Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers
#43These are pretty good, but the Chrome implementation is better. Specific complaints:
- can't tie a bookmark to a container.
- too many clicks to open a new tab in a container (in Chrome the whole window stays tied to the container, not just the tab)
- bookmarks and history aren't container-scoped.
Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers
#44These are pretty good, but the Chrome implementation is better. Specific complaints: - can't tie a bookmark to a container. - too many clicks to open a new tab in a container (in Chrome the whole window stays tied to the container, not just the tab) - bookmarks and history aren't container-scoped.
Also, it's annoying and a bit scary (for bugs) that this is an extension rather than being built into the browser.
Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers
#45Firefox 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).…
Thanks for this tip. It will come in super useful during web app penetration tests, being able to have sessions with multiple users open at the same time.
Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Agreed. I have mine in automatic mode. My default browsing experience is that most pages have never seen my computer before (at least as far as cookies go), and don't get to set anything that will stick around, unless I manually add them to a named container.
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Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers
#48Firefox 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).…
I have to agree with you on temporary containers. I spend most of my time in temporary containers. I trade the annoyance of having cookie popups literally every time I visit a page for not actually having to worry about the impact of those cookies.
I have it configured such that middle-click opens links in new containers, and left-click opens in the current container.
Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers
#49An alternative is to use firejail. If you want temp profiles you can write a script that:
- copies a good initial profile to /dev/shm
- launches Firefox in firejail with —private that points to the dir
- delete the dir
If you want the containers to stick around you can avoid /dev/shm and keep the dirs around instead.
Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers
#50I really really want support for multiple browser profiles in Firefox. Multi-Account Containers are cool, but they don't allow me to change my bookmarks or browser extensions. This is the only thing left Chrome has over Firefox that I honestly care about.
The profile manager (about:profiles) comes so close, but it's just not as elegant as Chrome. Starting Firefox with the profile manager also causes issues when the OS tries to open another Firefox instance.
They have a Firefox sync profile badge now. Just give me the option in that menu to open a new Firefox instance with another profile. And when the OS tries to open a webpage, just use the default profile - or even whatever profile I opened a page with last.