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Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by _nedR »

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.

Are you referring to Chrome's profiles? Because Firefox's counterpart to that is Firefox profiles, not containers. Firefox profiles are clunkier to launch & use though (like a hidden feature that has rebuffed all my attempts to streamline their management, as if by design). Type 'firefox -P -no-remote' to start with firefox profiles.

IMO containers and profile functionalities shouldn't be mixed. Containers are a lightweight version of Profiles. Running 2 profiles is essentially running 2 separate browsers running with separate histories, add-ons, bookmarks, settings. A bit like threads vs processes.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by floatingatoll »

hosh wrote: post #64
floatingatoll wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(3 months ago) https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3... > With #1537, our next release starts to address container-bookmark integration & UX. As @MichaelTunnell points out, it does not solve ALL of the container-bookmark UX requests in this issue, or in #854 #1142 and #1443. > Container-bookmark UX is a big project, and some of the solutions will require changes in Firefox itself. Any changes h…

Yup. I am waiting for that to happen. In the meantime, I have been using a hacky work-around that more or less does the core thing that I want: quickly open up a specific bookmark in a specific container. (Actually adding it into the bookmarks and syncing across devices is a pain, but not as painful as not being able to open up bookmarks into specific containers).

Are you using the addon on AMO for “Open Bookmark In Container”?

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by _nedR »

baggy_trough wrote: post #122
_nedR wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox's equivalent of personas is profiles...

What is the user interface like for Firefox profiles?

You can judge for yourself by typing 'firefox -P -no-remote'. Right there, having to use the terminal , has already made it more clunkier than Chromium's solution. Admittedly, Firefox profiles are clunkier to launch & manage - like a hidden feature that has rebuffed all my attempts to streamline their management, as if by design. This can be remedied by use of desktop shortcuts (You can create separate shortcuts for different profiles) but then you have to also deal with the idiosyncrasies of your Desktop Environment (Gnome in my case :/) .

Once its launched its pretty much like running to separate firefox instances in your system with separate bookmarks, histories, settings, addons - like in Chrome. So it is a lot more heavier than containers as a result. Which is why i think the 2 functionalities shouldn't me unified like people in the comments seem to be asking. Similar to Threads vs processes. We need both.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by usr1106 »

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

I have it similarly, except that I have Google work and Google private separated.

Unfortunately at work we are using a lot of OAuth, so I am supposed to use AWS and others with Google authentication. Which means that I cannot isolate them anymore. At the moment I still use my old AWS IAM account, but the plan is to remove the credentials. On other services I have never had any separate credentials :(

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by usr1106 »

jokoon wrote: post #51

I have been using this for a while now, it's pretty good, but I always had trouble separating Gmail and Google search. It's necessary to add accounts.google.com and mail.google.com I think I can't isolate Google search to ours own container. I'm also using strict setting and cookies are cleared when Firefox is closed, and Gmail and accounts domain are white listed. The UI of this addon could be a little better.

Do you want to be logged in while using Google search? I don't. So I have 2 Google containers (work + private) where I am logged in for Gmail, Drive etc. But search, maps, etc. I do in a 3rd container. Yeah, you cannot blindly follow all links, but that doesn't bother me too much.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by ggm »

markosaric wrote: post #63
stkdump wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

This add-on is a GUI to the underlying mechanism. They even say you can choose to use the non-GUI lower level hooks. They think this GUI is a nicer user experience

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by kevinkeller »

screaminghawk wrote: post #32
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)

Instead of spare containers, you can use Temporary Containers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

This is like incognito mode on a container level.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by rsync »

freddie_mercury wrote: post #112
rsync wrote: post #109

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 ...

> This would seem to be the basic, beginning use-case from which all other use-cases would follow. 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.

How do you open new, specific, container tabs with a keystroke then ?

As far as I can tell, the only way to open a specific container tab is to mousey-mouse-mouse to:

File > New Container Tab > Blah

Of course that use-case should be preserved, but it's woefully inefficient ... if you have a profile you do a lot of things under, you'd create a window and then (keystroke) (CMD)-t to get a new tab ...

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