Great for testing logins on web apps. I used a FF plugin to do this, I presume having this in FF itself natively is new.
Multi-Account Containers
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Re: Multi-Account Containers
#22I tried to like this the other day but it was a real hassle. I have 3 accounts on a website. I thought I could setup 3 different containers, one for each account. But it turns out that switching between containers is not simple. Whenever I tried to switch, I got a pop up from Firefox asking me if I was really sure I wanted to switch my default container for that website. Sometimes it sent me into a redirect loop with…
Wait; what's the point of them if they're not meant to be used against the same site?!
They are. My guess is that person is doing something wrong.
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#23I've been using this since it was new. I'm very frustrated to say the UI/UX hasn't seen any significant update.
Containers are still synced separately, so any fresh install of Firefox will have the tutorial UX and the default 4 containers, even after syncing.
Also, address bar completion is still monolithic, making it very easy to accidentally open a site in an undesired container. That can be worked around by adding every domain to a default container, but most of the utility of containers is to use several for a single domain, i.e. multiple email accounts each with their own container instances.
Containers are a feature I find very valuable, but they really need their UX to be a core browser feature, not an addon.
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#24Pretty useful. Something I learned at some point was that you can actually combine this with Wireguard: If you dig into the extension, there's a feature that lets you set a SOCKS5 proxy for a profile. You can then point it to a running Wireproxy to go from SOCKS5 to Wireguard. Could be handy.
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#25Very useful if you have multiple Outlook accounts (e.g. school, work, personal), because outlook.com doesn't allow you to switch between accounts without logging out and back in.
Or you hop between different AWS accounts.
Or gcp or other Google products. They technically supports it by appending different authuser query params, but whenever you click something it's bound to choose the wrong one.
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#26We use different AWS accounts for different purposes at work. It would be an extreme productivity loss if I had to go back to using something other than Firefox's containers.
The Arc browser [1] could be nice alternative as it handles profiles pretty smooth. [1]: https://arc.net/
This site basically says nothing except "sign up".
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#27I've been using this for a few years now and love it. I wish for two things.
1) i wish there was a way to automatically delete cookies/cache/history from specific containers every time. My personal container needs cookies and logins saved. My other containers don't need persistent cookies.
2) I've always wished for protonvpn to apply to only specific containers. Reading this now though, I see firefox's VPN does that so that's very cool, I might need to look into their vpn.
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#28What would be needed to support this in private browsing mode? I would like to keep things separate and toss everything when I'm done.
Private browsing mode is essentially a new temporary container. It let's you keep things separate and toss them when you're done.
Yes, and I'd like to use more than one simultaneously.
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#29Experience is still lacking compared to Chrome profiles. Chrome profiles are so much better UX wise than any other solution, especially the color coding of the window.
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#30I tried to like this the other day but it was a real hassle. I have 3 accounts on a website. I thought I could setup 3 different containers, one for each account. But it turns out that switching between containers is not simple. Whenever I tried to switch, I got a pop up from Firefox asking me if I was really sure I wanted to switch my default container for that website. Sometimes it sent me into a redirect loop with…
Unintuitively, you want to have no default set for that domain, and you want to open an empty tab of that container type (by long clicking the new tab button or clicking the container addon button itself to get a list). Once you have a container open, middle-clicking the new tab button will open an empty tab in that container.
I agree that the UX is horrendous. Most of that is a byproduct of implementing it as an addon instead of a feature.