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Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

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Re: Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

#21
post #4

This is very cool. You can now set a different proxy for every container!

Now if it could just wait to ask for the permission until it needs it...

The extension is direct from Mozilla. If I didn’t trust it to request literally any permission, I should just delete Firefox entirely because it could do just about anything without having to ask me.

Re: Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

#22
Not at all related to this but posting for visibility.

Firefox never updates automatically for me and I've uninstalled, removed my account and other basic troubleshooting steps I've found through Googling never help.

I have to run the installer with every update. And that would be fine but it resets some settings that don't sync with your profile, as an example, it always changes language spell check back to US English from British or Australian English. Its giving me the shits.

How do I fix the above?

Re: Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

#23
post #4

This is very cool. You can now set a different proxy for every container!

That part I like, it means I no longer need a separate extension for that purpose. I could have done without the Mozilla VPN spam though.

Re: Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

#25
You don't really need this extension to use containers -- it just adds some convenience, but the main functionality (creating containers, opening tabs in containers, moving tabs between containers, ...) is in Firefox core.

There are also other convenience extensions that use containers -- like Simple Tab Groups, which allows creating groups and assigning them to containers. I use it and have no need for the "Multi-Account Containers" extension.

Re: Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now if it could just wait to ask for the permission until it needs it...

The extension is direct from Mozilla. If I didn’t trust it to request literally any permission, I should just delete Firefox entirely because it could do just about anything without having to ask me.

I even distrust myself. I don't run everything as superuser / with admin rights whole day long just because it's me.

The point is you should use elevated privileges when you need them. Not because some use case which is currently irrelevant for you might need them.

Re: Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

#27
post #12

This is actually something I wanted, kinda. I like that they integrate the container proxy extension with the regular container extension, I just would rather they not try to sell the VPN thing so much.

It certainly sounds useful for users who need different VPNs / proxies in different tabs. But not everbody needs that, so not everbody should he forced to grant more privileges.

I don't need a VPN that often, so I have not investigated: Does it support any kind of VPN or just Firefox VPN?

Re: Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

#28

You don't really need this extension to use containers -- it just adds some convenience, but the main functionality (creating containers, opening tabs in containers, moving tabs between containers, ...) is in Firefox core. There are also other convenience extensions that use containers -- like Simple Tab Groups, which allows creating groups and assigning them to containers. I use it and have no need for the "Multi-Ac…

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Re: Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

#29

You don't really need this extension to use containers -- it just adds some convenience, but the main functionality (creating containers, opening tabs in containers, moving tabs between containers, ...) is in Firefox core. There are also other convenience extensions that use containers -- like Simple Tab Groups, which allows creating groups and assigning them to containers. I use it and have no need for the "Multi-Ac…

My only extension for containers is "Sticky Window Containers": the container used for the first tab in a window is used for all subsequent tabs.

Re: Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

#30
post #19
post #9

I wish they fixed the long standing, annoying sync bug that makes Firefox download 7000+ containers every once in a while. Some of us hosed our sync accounts in one way or another (through the container duplication bug in m-a-c itself [1] or the temporary containers extension [2]) and it's impossible to recover - once you reach the storage quota on the sync server, the sync server refuses all write operations and del…

it is possible to recover! you just have to reset your account password, which blows away all server data, starting the quota over. but this is ok because you should still have a local copy, and when you log in with the new password you can upload that.

Thanks! I have been following the issues and also spent quite some time trying to fix/work around this on the client side, but it never occurred to me that simply reseting the password deletes everything server-side. I'll try it out.
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