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Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by flatiron » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 12:58 PM UTC

super_mario wrote: post #5

Are containers still necessary? Does the Firefox built in privacy (Strict privacy protection policy) provide same or similar functionality?

I wrote up a quick email to friends/family at the beginning of the pandemic about Firefox containers in regards to the vaccine signups that were occurring. Since there was site isolation you could get as many “slots” as you were willing to solve capchas. Most of my friends and family were vaccinated because of this feature. A bunch say they use it now a days for normal site isolation but I did at least convert some people off chrome that way.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by animesh » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 12:58 PM UTC

ohgodplsno wrote: post #38

animesh wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ?

Nope. I don't play with userChrome.css at all. I am just using the System theme.

Just found that I had the `browser.proton.enabled` false. Toggling it brought back the border. Wow. I completely forgot about this setting I changed around FF 87 or so.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by animesh » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 12:59 PM UTC

mikro2nd wrote: post #34

animesh wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just found that I had the `browser.proton.enabled` false. Toggling it brought back the border on container tabs.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by animesh » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 12:59 PM UTC

Semaphor wrote: post #29

animesh wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Just found that I had the `browser.proton.enabled` false. Toggling it brought back the border on container tabs.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by abdullahkhalids » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 12:59 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #24

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…

> 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

Congrats, you just invented the Tor browser. Or at least a variant where you are happy to store history etc on your machine.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by animesh » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 1:00 PM UTC

scns wrote: post #25

animesh wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

PEBKAC :)

Just found that I had the browser.proton.enabled set to false. Toggling it brought back the border on container tabs.

Still don't like the distinction between active tabs and container tabs though.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by nickthemagicman » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

When will Firefox have a better UI for their profiles?

That's literally the only thing stopping me from switching to Firefox.

Google has an entire menu devoted to it.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by warvair » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 1:03 PM UTC

UI_at_80x24 wrote: post #7

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…

I have the same issue, but I don't see the same thing.

I have bookmarks set up with URLs like your first set:

  company1.sigin.aws.amazon.com
  ...

But as soon as I click one, it gets redirected to:

  signin.aws.amazon.com/oauth?

Which is interpreted as the same URL for all accounts.

One solution would be to have FF containers tie into the bookmark editing code so we can set the container by bookmark. That is, when I click a bookmark with a container set, that container should be used to open the site regardless of the URL.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by nickthemagicman » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

thrwawy283 wrote: post #16

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…

How is that different from anonymous browsing tabs?

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by zamadatix » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 1:14 PM UTC

nickthemagicman wrote: post #49

thrwawy283 wrote: post #16

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…

How is that different from anonymous browsing tabs?

It's per tab not per window and they can coexist with trusted containers. It also has a non-automatic mode where you select sites that open in temporary containers instead of selecting sites that don't.