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Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by mozillamaxx »

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…

Hey there! I'm one of the devs on this project. We made some progress last year on per-container proxy support. Follow this issue for (hopefully soon) progress here:

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/190...

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by collinvandyck76 »

generalizations wrote: post #17
syshum wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How do I get over the reluctance to grant an extension to "Access your data for all websites"? I would love to have some of these extensions but it feels like a huge security risk.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by mech422 »

chrisjc wrote: post #65
mech422 wrote: post #14

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…

Very interesting... The one nice thing about containers is being able to move sites from one profile to another if necessary. Can you do the same with profiles? If I come across a link in one profile, but one to open it in another, is there a way seamless way to do it?

other the copy/paste the url? I'm not aware of one..though, that's not very 'seamless' :-) The whole idea is that profiles are totally separate - separate process, config, etc.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by mech422 »

cassepipe wrote: post #68
mech422 wrote: post #14

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…

I always wondered why there was no easier way to change profiles in firefox than about:profiles. I am not sure what your solution is though, would you mind going into details ? Thanks in advance

I just have a shortcut for launching with the -P (Profile) and -new-process options.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by [deleted] »

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #26
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…

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.

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Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by kbenson »

okanesen wrote: post #39
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…

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...

I've used containers with container proxy for well over a year and it works great for segregating work traffic on my home system. I use a container for work traffic that is assigned to an SSH session to my work system that exposes a SOCKS proxy that I make sure is running.

Eventually I moved work browsing to a different browser that I set to run through that proxy explicitly, but I still have the Firefox config set up in case I don't want to launch that, or don't care to copy and paste to the work browser some times (I wish I could find a way to make links launched from Outlook/Teams to open in Chrome but other links to open in Firefox).

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by input_sh »

collinvandyck76 wrote: post #92
generalizations wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sideberry is TST with better perfomance, FYI. Also, right there with ya - treed tabs is the only reason I stick with FF.

How do I get over the reluctance to grant an extension to "Access your data for all websites"? I would love to have some of these extensions but it feels like a huge security risk.

By reading the feature set and realising that some of them cannot work without that permission. For example, you can't have a password manager, a CSS style injector, or an ad-blocker without that access.

After taking a quick look at the add-on from the comment above, I bet it's the snapshots feature that requires it.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by charles-m-knox »

charles-m-knox wrote: post #58

Love seeing mentions of Firefox containers on HN. The native multi-account containers UI isn't able to do things such as container filtering, bulk rename/delete/recollection/etc, so a bit less than a year ago I wrote a lightweight extension to help manage containers here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-he...

I'm not sure how to edit my original comment, but "recollection" should be "re-color". This was due to autocorrect.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by kbenson »

collinvandyck76 wrote: post #92
generalizations wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sideberry is TST with better perfomance, FYI. Also, right there with ya - treed tabs is the only reason I stick with FF.

How do I get over the reluctance to grant an extension to "Access your data for all websites"? I would love to have some of these extensions but it feels like a huge security risk.

If you really want an extension that requires that, and if it has a repo, you could vet the code a bit (it's JavaScript, so somewhat accessible), and load it as an extension from a file after packaging it up.

Alternatively, you can install it, look in your profile dir until you find that extension, and look through all the code it's using, and turn off automatically update extensions in Firefox when you're happy you want to keep it.

People can say what they will about the great extension convergence where Firefox switched to Chrome style extensions, but having everything just be JavaScript that you can easily review yourself is pretty nice.

Re: Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

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Post by rmkrmk »

kbenson wrote: post #96
okanesen wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I've used containers with container proxy for well over a year and it works great for segregating work traffic on my home system. I use a container for work traffic that is assigned to an SSH session to my work system that exposes a SOCKS proxy that I make sure is running. Eventually I moved work browsing to a different browser that I set to run through that proxy explicitly, but I still have the Firefox config set u…

If you are on a Mac, have a look at finicky to manage which URLs should open in a specific browser.

https://github.com/johnste/finicky

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