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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 ...
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 ...
I would never ever want to do that. So, no, it is not the basic, beginning use-case. It is a worthless use case for me. You shouldn't assume that your use cases are the obvious ones.
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).…
Same! I have three (dev, stg, prd) aws accounts. Without containers, I'd need to log in and out to jump between s3/emr/etc buckets between environments. With firefox containers I can run all three concurrently.
Is the only different between this containers vs profile the container is tab base vs profile will be different windows?
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…
What I want is something more like "jail site X in container X, and open every non-X link in a temporary container / container Y / whatever."
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).…
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.
I'm using a plugin called Cookie Autodelete for this and like it
I 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 O…
Every time this comes up, everyone always dismisses it by just pointing to about:profile or the launch flags, but in my opinion those are weak excuses. Chrome made profiles a first class citizen and they're an absolute pleasure to use. I literally use them every day. Firefox having a bunch of buried half baked UI isn't really an answer to that. I believe Firefox is a better browser overall. Only this (profiles), the…
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…
I'll be trying this— I like Firefox containers a lot, but I dislike how session-oriented they are. You can force a particular site into container X, but every click from there will stay in container X unless another rule forces it to a different containers. What I want is something more like "jail site X in container X, and open every non-X link in a temporary container / container Y / whatever."
[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
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Same! I have three (dev, stg, prd) aws accounts. Without containers, I'd need to log in and out to jump between s3/emr/etc buckets between environments. With firefox containers I can run all three concurrently.
One can do that with ff profile, right? Is the only different between this containers vs profile the container is tab base vs profile will be different windows?
I don't bother with profiles any more, especially since there's a one click option to open all the container tabs in a new window as well.
The huge downside with them is they don't sync across devices. If/When this comes they will be perfect.
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 ...
Yes, that would be much better. That's the way Chrome personas work.
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