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Firefox Multi-Account Containers are impossible to go back from once you get used to them. Add in Conex ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/conex/ ) and you have really great tab group switching WITH containerization / "firewall" between containers. You can't get anywhere near this with Chrome as far as I'm aware.
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 us…
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I think the reason why it is so well integrated is that it used to be part of the standard installation of firefox and only later moved into an addon.
Containers actually still are integrated in the standard installation of Firefox and can be used even without an addon. You just need to turn them on in about:config: privacy.userContext.enabled to true privacy.userContext.ui.enabled to true privacy.userContext.longPressBehavior to 2 I love using containers with privacy.firstparty.isolate set to true too for extra protection. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cont…
I never understand why Mozilla doesn't allow to enable this in the settings.
I know supercookies and other fingerprinting means I am probably being tracked still, but at least I am minimising it without going full time incognito.
Previously I was using Profiles to separate personal, work and clients, and though about:profiles help switching quicker it was still messy, and confusing which profile a link would open in etc.
Now I can separate Facebook, Google products and Amazon into their own containers. I can keep various client browsing separate from my personal, I can keep more suspect websites in its own container, finance, infrastructure etc. Love it.
* [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...
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The entire Library, Bookmarks/History/the archaic Downloads popup, all just makes me immensely sad. Meanwhile I keep seeing more badges (Pocket, Screenshots, Lockwise, etc) crap popping up in the browser UX... To add on to what you're pointing out -- they even cloned Chrome's "profile-icon-in-the-bar" model, but didn't actually give you the ability to switch profiles with it! Instead more places to shove more links t…
The history and bookmark management also has some unfortunate performance issues. I'm fairly certain there's a memory leak or something as well, as deleting several thousand entries at once (say, via 'forget this site' menu options) effectively breaks the browser until restart even when it has finished the operation. A comment in the bugzilla for this issue[1] seems to suggest that they'd like to rewrite History at t…
There is definitely something profoundly broken with how history is being handled. Probably more than one thing that's broken, from the sounds of it.
I love this and use it daily but am sad that they don’t sync between machines (and the discussion over at https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3... is a bit disenhartening)
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 us…
Without that, its useless to me. There is a bugzilla [0] for it, and 3 years ago, it was said they were going to look more into it, and nothing really since.. Its frustrating.
I recently changed to using Firefox on Android and it seems some extensions like this one are not compatible which is a real shame.
I wish that this was compatible with Firefox mobile
I love Firefox Multi-Account containers! My only complaint (and really this is my biggest gripe with Firefox in general) is that there is no support for syncing containers using your Firefox account. This means every time I set up a new computer I have to reconfigure my containers and for each computer I have to re-associate all the sites I have sandbox with their own containers. This is such a huge pain. Other than…