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Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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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.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ny2199/the_faceboo...

As per the /r/firefox subreddit, Mozilla refuses to listen / prioritize this issue.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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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?

I use 'Container Tabs Sidebar' [0] add-on which gives me a tree-style view of the different pages opened in their corresponding containers.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-tab...

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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One of the unexpected benefits for me has been that I can lock any OAuth enabled app to a container for the OAuth provider I use. To login, I check which container I'm in and click the associated button.

Before this I'd always forget which OAuth provider I previously used. Did I Login with Google to DigitalOcean or did I use GitHub? Worse, I'd often click the wrong button and get logged into a new/empty account. I never came up with a good rule for which OAuth provider I should use, so it's a guessing game.

Locking the app to the container means I don't really need to think.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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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.

Huh? I'm on 91.0.2 and the coloured border is still there. If there's a newer version (nightly?) where it's gone, I'd have to agree that's an egregious UI FU.

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…

Have you considered using a password manager? With 1Password I'm able to save all logins for my AWS accounts and then just select the appropriate one when logging in.

I use pass (password-store). I haven't added any firefox plugin to manage that for me. So I always go back to the terminal for copy/pasting the details.

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…

Have you considered using a password manager? With 1Password I'm able to save all logins for my AWS accounts and then just select the appropriate one when logging in.

Same for me using LastPass.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Alternative low-effort solution that might break some websites (only issue I've run into so far is U2F based 2FA with Duo): privacy.firstparty.isolate -> true (in about:config) Effectively acts as a separate 'container' for every website.

The problem here comes in when you have things like SSO where many sites auth to Google, or AzureAD, etc. With Continers I can login to the same site with mutiple accounts, for example one common use it where you have a Admin Account, and a Regular Account. You can use FireFox Containers to access the same site(s) using different accounts I also do this with Amazon, so I can have my Work Amazon, and my personal Amazo…

Yeah, I agree there are definitely usecases containers address that FPI doesn't. However, if your use case is just "I don't want Facebook and friends to track me across websites", you should give FPI a try!

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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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.

Works on both 91.0 and 93.0 (nightly) on my machine. Did you play with userChrome.css and broke it ?

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…

Probably not exactly what you want but for proxies you can use Container proxy[0] (not affiliated), which allows you to assign different proxies added by yourself to specific containers.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-pro...

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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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

I am using the System theme and don't see it. Huh. I don't remember trying any about:config fixes as well recently. Wonder what is different between our versions.
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