Firefox Multi-Account Containers

Post by jokoon » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 5:00 PM UTC

usr1106 wrote: post #127

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.

Post by babak_ap » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #149

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?

Post by _nedR » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 12:57 AM UTC

baggy_trough wrote: post #152

_nedR wrote: post #124

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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…

Command line - I rest my case.

Post by O1111OOO » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 9:17 PM UTC

srcmap wrote: post #113

prions wrote: post #67

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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?

Post by freddie_mercury » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 4:48 PM 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 ...