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Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by esnard » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 10:26 AM UTC

anonfwd7 wrote: post #139

leevlad wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few more usecases that I've added to my workflow since discovering container tabs: * Work/personal separation * Multiple AWS accounts Also, I am very impressed with how well they're integrated into Firefox. For example, opening a link in a new tab will preserve the container. CMD+Shift+T will restore a recently closed tab and remember its original container. I really like the color coding too.

Use a different Firefox profile for work/personal. Sign-in to personal (while at work) to sync bookmarks if firewall allows. Depending on whether you trust your employer you could sync further personal settings. Don't sign-in to work profile and no work bookmarks or settings/logins get shared. Don't get me wrong: multi-account containers are a blessing for those rare days when you absolutely have to log-in to faceboo…

What are the differences between a profile and an account?

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by Vinnl » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 10:30 AM UTC

CivBase wrote: post #50

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…

It would also be a great place to advertise the Containers extension for those users for whom profiles are a bit overkill (especially them opening in different windows).

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by Vinnl » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 10:34 AM UTC

rsync wrote: post #130

freddie_mercury wrote: post #112

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> 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 ...

It's not super-efficient, but it is keyboard accessible: press Ctrl+. to open the Container selection menu, then the down arrow to the Container you want, and Enter to open a new tab in that Container.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by anonfwd7 » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 10:53 AM UTC

esnard wrote: post #141

anonfwd7 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use a different Firefox profile for work/personal. Sign-in to personal (while at work) to sync bookmarks if firewall allows. Depending on whether you trust your employer you could sync further personal settings. Don't sign-in to work profile and no work bookmarks or settings/logins get shared. Don't get me wrong: multi-account containers are a blessing for those rare days when you absolutely have to log-in to faceboo…

What are the differences between a profile and an account?

I suspect the mapping between accounts and profiles is 1:1, but you can have a different profile which is not associated with an account.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by njacobs5074 » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 10:56 AM UTC

I agree, this feature is awesome for development. One of the logging platforms we use (PaperTrail) uses a single cookie for connecting to their platform. This in turn, makes it a complete pain if I want to view logs for a dev/staging instance because it logs me out of our live logs.

Multi-Account Containers completely fixed this for me.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by jaylittle » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 11:03 AM UTC

babak_ap wrote: post #15

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.

I was hoping somebody would share the news about this addon and I'm glad that I wasn't disappointed!

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by wiether » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 11:41 AM UTC

Dig1t wrote: post #66

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…

It's also a great issue for me since I have to reconfigure everything.

I don't know how the Firefox account works but the fact that FMAC is an extension and not natively included in Firefox may be explaining why it's not synced ?

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by dspillett » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 12:11 PM UTC

sebazzz wrote: post #36

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).…

Sounds like I need to move some of my devtesting back to FF. The ability to open a new session with a fresh disconnected session (so no shared session cookies) is one of the few things I miss from bad-old-IE (as simple as "File|NewSession"). Very useful, as you say, for testing workflows between different users.

Of course you've always been able to setup multiple profiles for FF, but that is setup that I was usually too lazy for given it could be done ad-hoc in IE.

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by captn3m0 » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

babak_ap wrote: post #15

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.

Does it sync this across multiple machines? Can I export/import this list?

Re: Firefox Multi-Account Containers

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Post by groovecoder » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 3:35 PM UTC

briffle wrote: post #98

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…

There is a plugin that will sync the actual containers, but it doesn't sync your rules you setup to always open site X in your personal container, etc. 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. [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288858

M-A-C dev here ...

We're actually pretty deep into the work of adding sync to M-A-C. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/161...

Predictably, synchronizing data is complicated, so it's taking a while and we're trying to do it in a way that doesn't destroy any existing data. So we'll be doing some heavy internal testing on it before we release it.

But it's definitely coming.