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Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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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.

Better performance not necessarily, but you can set custom rules for containers. You can set the user agent and proxy settings on a container base which is nice

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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One 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?

this doesn't happen for me. what's the other add-ons you have ?

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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post #8

Containers 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.

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)

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The only thing I would love to see for containers is some sort of VPN that lets you connect through a different server on a specific container, and potentially isolated web history between containers. Then if I'm live streaming my browser to online strangers, one of the suggestions should be for anything personal (or if streaming to relatives / co-workers you don't expose your online life, which can be problematic to some), and also due to the container going through a VPN, or maybe even some sort of paid proxy service idk, my IP isn't potentially exposed to internet strangers. Given such an expansion to containers, I would double down and if you open any link from another app, Firefox would ask you which container to open the link through, this way you don't open it under the wrong container.

I 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)

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post #23

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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.

Form over function? Have you considered opening an issue? If any Firefox devs read this please revert that change.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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The 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…

I add Containerize to that:

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)

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Don'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?

Different profiles can have different extensions, so if you don't fully trust some extension you can isolate it to a given profile.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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One 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…

Sounds like Containerise can do that

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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post #23

Earlier 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.

https://i.imgur.com/J7iDK21.png

91.0.2 on Win 10 as well

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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post #8

Containers 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.

How do you resize the colored top border?
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