Another question is: do you prefer ads that are useless to you, or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?
Facebook Container Extension
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Re: Facebook Container Extension
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These extensions are killer, and are the primary reason I use Firefox. No other browsers have similar functionality at all that I've found. For me, it's the best setup I've found in terms of cookie/session management. By default, I do want every new tab I open to come with a clean slate of no cookies, local storage, SQLite, or whatever other storage/tracking mechanisms are invented. If I need to open up a Google serv…
does anyone know why chrome can't do containers, this is also why i use firefox
It would seem its again the interest of one of the biggest contributors to the open source code base of chromium...
Re: Facebook Container Extension
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After reading about it repeatedly here, I finally tried Multi Account Containers and I'm disappointed. I want to press a button and get site X open in container Y. But as it is, after searching for the container, you then have to search for the website you want to open in it separately. It makes having lots of containers hard, plus there's the risk of accidentally opening sites in your "main container", etc. You have…
Felt the same exact way. I’ve tried multiple times to give Firefox containers a try, but the UX is just horribly designed. So much so that I don’t think they even care about it as a feature. It feels more like a publicity stunt. If a browser could deliver a usable container experience, I would instantly switch to it.
Oh really? I find them excellent. I don't know how you're trying to use them - but I have a "work" window, which opens new containers in the "work" container (which has all my work accounts). It's a great way to keep accounts separate and it's one of my favorite parts of Firefox.
Re: Facebook Container Extension
#34Another question is: do you prefer ads that are useless to you, or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?
I prefer not being tracked and no surveillance by shady companies.
The only "benefit" I see is that I get drowned in bike adds after some research. That's despite the fact that I bought a bike two month ago.
Re: Facebook Container Extension
#35Another question is: do you prefer ads that are useless to you, or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?
C: I'd rather not see the ads at all.
...and this is coming along swimmingly for some aspects of my life.
Re: Facebook Container Extension
#36It's quite funny that there is a specialized and exclusive "Facebook container" extension dedicated to stop Facebook and their services alone from tracking you lol.
There's also a Google Container available.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
Re: Facebook Container Extension
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
After reading about it repeatedly here, I finally tried Multi Account Containers and I'm disappointed. I want to press a button and get site X open in container Y. But as it is, after searching for the container, you then have to search for the website you want to open in it separately. It makes having lots of containers hard, plus there's the risk of accidentally opening sites in your "main container", etc. You have…
Felt the same exact way. I’ve tried multiple times to give Firefox containers a try, but the UX is just horribly designed. So much so that I don’t think they even care about it as a feature. It feels more like a publicity stunt. If a browser could deliver a usable container experience, I would instantly switch to it.
Folks, I realize it must be frustrating that it doesn't fit your use cases, and I agree the "multiple accounts for the same site" use case isn't well covered, but that they're "unusable" is simply not true. I for one (but apparently also many others) have been very happily using them as they are. For most of the sites I use them for I have exactly one account and would like to have zero.
Essentially, if I make a container for you're website, you've made it to my personal shit list. :)
Re: Facebook Container Extension
#38Related: Multi Account Containers - Same thing as the facebook container but more generi - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... Temporary Containers - Same container concept but you can create and destroy them on the fly - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
After reading about it repeatedly here, I finally tried Multi Account Containers and I'm disappointed. I want to press a button and get site X open in container Y. But as it is, after searching for the container, you then have to search for the website you want to open in it separately. It makes having lots of containers hard, plus there's the risk of accidentally opening sites in your "main container", etc. You have…
Just out of curiosity, what do you use instead?
Anyway some tips and tricks from a long time user. First, you can use always open this site in container x. Which is useful for some sites. Then, I also used pinned tabs with various gmail accounts in different containers.
And you can right click on links, bookmarks, and tabs to (re)open in a particular container. I use containers a lot to test our app with various different users in different containers. I also use this with google drive to manage drives for various accounts. Also if you click on links in a particular container they open in the same container. So, for example if I have an online meeting in my company container, the video call opens in the same container.
The UX could be improved and it would indeed be nice to tie individual bookmarks to containers. I've also been looking for this very obvious feature that somehow is the hardest thing ever in Firefox. But it still beats what other browsers offer here, which is mostly nothing. Chrome has account profiles but it is a bit awkward to use and you have to work with different windows. This is much more powerful. You could do the same with Firefox by starting it with different user profiles but it's a bit painful to set that up. Account containers are much easier.
Re: Facebook Container Extension
#39Another question is: do you prefer ads that are useless to you, or ads that actually show you stuff you might want?
I use an ad blocker because I prefer to see no ads. I don't see a whole lot of ads generally.
Re: Facebook Container Extension
#40It's quite funny that there is a specialized and exclusive "Facebook container" extension dedicated to stop Facebook and their services alone from tracking you lol.
There's also a Google Container available. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
Not by Mozilla, and the "wny" is clear. Unfort.