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Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

#101

Post by davnicwil »

A fantastic feature, but has a really frustrating UX issue still not fixed which is that you can't auto open a 'homepage' site for a new container tab, so say for example you have a container for one specific site, you have to open a new container tab and then open that site using a bookmark or similar.

What you can do is have a certain site auto open in a specific container, that way you can just go to the site from a bookmark, link, the address bar etc and it is just one step, but this breaks when you have more than one account on the same site and want a container for each.

If anyone does know a workaround for this, or knows if there's a fix coming, would be really interested to hear!

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

#102

Post by e40 »

no_protocol wrote: post #17

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…

I was all set to try this, over the syncing in Chrome of different Google accounts. Ah, well, when they get them syncing I will try it.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

#103

Post by milofeynman »

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 tried this for awhile. It completely breaks some sites, like Jira iirc. It was completely unusable on my work PC. And broke stuff randomly on my home PC. The biggest problem is that you can't easily add a whitelist to fix it. At least you couldn't back when it first came out.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

#104

Post by baggy_trough »

jdlshore wrote: post #75
baggy_trough wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, it's annoying and a bit scary (for bugs) that this is an extension rather than being built into the browser.

It is built into the browser. The extension is just the UI to access it.

I have to install an extension to use it. With Chrome, I do not.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

#105

Post by baggy_trough »

dralley wrote: post #74
baggy_trough wrote: post #43

These 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.

The use case for containers is totally different from the use case for profiles. The whole point of this feature is that you can have all of the cookies and persistent storage of a tab or set of tabs sandboxed, without affecting your actual browser history or bookmarks. If you want that, use profiles. >too many clicks to open a new tab in a container The configuration for this is really simple. There's even extension…

I'm not sure what you're getting at regarding profiles. Chrome "personas" seem to be much like Firefox containers, but somewhat easier to use. Don't Firefox profiles require restarting the browser?

I guess I am not smart enough to figure out the simple configuration you mention.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

#106

Post by baggy_trough »

dralley wrote: post #76
baggy_trough wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, it's annoying and a bit scary (for bugs) that this is an extension rather than being built into the browser.

It's an extension written by Mozilla that is using APIs built into the browser. The extension is just a bit of UI to make the feature accessible.

I understand that, but why is it done that way? It's extra work to install it, and the fact that it's an extension probably means that it's not tested as well as normal browser UI. I really hate using extensions because I like to keep my software plain vanilla as possible to avoid strange bugs.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

#107

Post by perfectstorm »

I use this and for the most part it works just fine. The other day I ran into a problem where it got into this loop and I ended up making Chrome as my default browser just to get around this issue.

The issue is when you've an app that needs Google authentication and it opens the browser. To be more specific, I was trying to log in on Postman using the web authentication option. It opened my default browser (Firefox) just fine but it opened my other container (Work) which is not associated with my Google login. When i asked it to re-open the page in the other container (Personal), it lost all the redirect information and wouldn't let me continue back to Postman. I swear I had this same issue with another app but can't recall its name.

I suppose i could workaround this issue by having my personal container handle all the postman links but it seems like too many steps to get one thing.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

#108

Post by dralley »

baggy_trough wrote: post #106
dralley wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an extension written by Mozilla that is using APIs built into the browser. The extension is just a bit of UI to make the feature accessible.

I understand that, but why is it done that way? It's extra work to install it, and the fact that it's an extension probably means that it's not tested as well as normal browser UI. I really hate using extensions because I like to keep my software plain vanilla as possible to avoid strange bugs.

Because it's not the sort of feature that 90% of Firefox users would care much about. If you aren't aware of what it is and managed to accidentally activate it, you'd probably get really confused why you had to keep logging back into facebook.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by rsync »

Are these useful yet ?

I am very excited about this feature and have tried to incorporate it into my workflow but find it very difficult.

I want to open a window (not tab) as a particular profile, and then all subsequent tabs in that window are of that same profile.

This would seem to be the basic, beginning use-case from which all other use-cases would follow. I don't know why it doesn't exist ...

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by zhynn »

molszanski wrote: post #91
skrowl wrote: post #62

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.

Chrome Profiles. Sadly, way better IMO

I like profiles, use them all day long, but I wish there was a container-like way to isolate sub-profile tabs. Similar to the "facebook container" or being able to have multiple aws account sub-containers in my "work" profile. It's something I wish I could do.
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