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TreeStyleTabs... next to Containers, it is the only reason I still use FF, if FF drops support for either TreeStyleTabs or Containers there will be zero reason for me to continue using it.
Sideberry is TST with better perfomance, FYI. Also, right there with ya - treed tabs is the only reason I stick with FF.
Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
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Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#22One issue I have when using containers is that if I have a non-containerised tab and I click a link in it that leads to Twitter, which I have a container for, a new tab opens in the container, but the current tab also switches to a Twitter tab with the click, clobbering my session/history. Is this a bug or conflict with another setting or add-on?
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#23Containers are great! But since the recent v.91 update screwed the tabs up so much, there's no quick visual way to scan and see which container-type each tab is. Great stuff, well done Mozilla! What's the point in being able to customise a container's appearance, including colour, if they're not described on the tab itself?
You might need to get your vision checked. Each tab in a container gets a colored top border. And it's sizeable.
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#24I know, I know, probably a bit more than containers were intended for, but the containers thus far have been great otherwise. No need to open multiple browsers to test software quickly under multiple accounts, I can just login through all accounts I need to test on multiple containers.
Edit: The more I think about it, the more I feel as though Mozilla could find plenty of VPN (their own underlying provider included) providers to fund support for these changes to make them generic across VPN services and transparent.
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might need to get your vision checked. Each tab in a container gets a colored top border. And it's sizeable.
Not anymore. Please check again. I don't see the colored top border on container tabs. I'm on FF 91.0.2 on Win 10.
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#26The real gem is this extension: Temporary Containers https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... Basically every new tab is a new temporary container. Isolation all the time, by default. It's an added exercise for the reader, but you have to go into the settings of the extension and modify some of the mouse behavior. Basically if I want a link I click to share the same container as the parent, I C…
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise
It lets you define rules for URLs to allow any URL matching a pattern to always open in a certain container.
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#27Don't forget, you can still use multiple profiles. I have multiple shortcuts setup, each starting FF with a different profile. Within a profile, I use containers to further partition things. edit: for instance, I have a 'banking' profile with containers for each bank, brokerage, etc. The profile is totally separate from my 'general browsing' profile, so nothing can be sniffed. And the containers allow me to partition…
What benefit do you get from starting another Firefox instance with a different profile compared to simply using a different container in the same instance?
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#28One downside that I had hoped containers would fix was multiple accounts on AWS. Because of the way AWS handles the URL's for logging in I get: company1.signin.aws.amazon.com company2.signin.aws.amazon.com company3.signin.aws.amazon.com BUT FF only seems to remember the login/password for 1 of these at a time. I had hoped that putting them all in different containers would fix this but it appears that FF only matches…
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might need to get your vision checked. Each tab in a container gets a colored top border. And it's sizeable.
Not anymore. Please check again. I don't see the colored top border on container tabs. I'm on FF 91.0.2 on Win 10.
91.0.2 on Win 10 as well
Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
#30Containers are great! But since the recent v.91 update screwed the tabs up so much, there's no quick visual way to scan and see which container-type each tab is. Great stuff, well done Mozilla! What's the point in being able to customise a container's appearance, including colour, if they're not described on the tab itself?
You might need to get your vision checked. Each tab in a container gets a colored top border. And it's sizeable.