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Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by fhrow4484 »

baggy_trough wrote: post #41
account-5 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox does profiles too.

But only with command line switches and relaunching, right?

Never used command line for profiles, I'd just go type "about:profiles" > "Launch profile in new browser".

This opens a new window with that profile, but you can switch between each window at will.

The lack of discoverability of that "about:profiles" page is indeed a UX issue compared to chrome, but other that that it works pretty well.

For most use cases, I find the more lightweight multi-account-containers more useful though.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by thomastjeffery »

pbowyer wrote: post #40

I've used these for over a year. Where the experience falls short is when using OAuth flows where either the requestor or provider is in a different container. E.g. Slack (work) => Twitter (social media) => ~~broken~~ as the redirect doesn't go back to the (work) container. I can't think of a fix because any there is would break the privacy of containers.

You can right click a link, and open it in the other container. It's clunky, but has worked for me so far.

The UX for default containers could really benefit from some kind of context-awareness, but I'm not sure what that would look like.

I'm thinking an intermediary tab that gives you a list of default containers (instead of only a single option or none at all) to choose from when opening a domain. Then, maybe, you could set a default choice based on the originating container. Or maybe a tree of sub-containers... This is where addon-defined UX makes sense.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by herklwlkjwher »

yipeedipee wrote: post #34
slickdork wrote: post #27

I'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…

What you want is the Temporary Containers addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-con... It will let you open containers that trash cookies on close. You can also set certain URL's to always open in a tmp container which is useful for sites that only let you read x amount of article per month.

i use this, it sounds like in a way inverted from the way you do -- i have containers for any site that i want to maintain persistence on, then default to a tmp container

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#54

Post by mic-kul »

jchw wrote: post #24

Pretty 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.

@jchw that's neat! You've seen this in source or is it accessible somehow from the UI?

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by herklwlkjwher »

johnchristopher wrote: post #50
yipeedipee wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you want is the Temporary Containers addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-con... It will let you open containers that trash cookies on close. You can also set certain URL's to always open in a tmp container which is useful for sites that only let you read x amount of article per month.

How is it different/better from incognito mode ?

incognito shares state between tabs. temporary containers can have a fresh container for every tab, so your tabs are isolated. you can also use it in a way that by default every site you visit is using a temporary container, with certain urls set to use their corresponding long term containers -- if i go to github, it opens in a github container, if i click a link to some random dev's site, it opens in a temp container, etc.

to provide context, i still use incognito, but i consider incognito mostly about hiding things from myself -- i use it almost exclusively for porn, because i don't want my porn habits in my browser suggestions. temporary tabs still land in the recent urls and such.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by Jiocus »

slickdork wrote: post #27

I'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…

The Mozilla VPN is a relabelled service by Mullvad VPN.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#57

Post by lost_tourist »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #19
icapybara wrote: post #11

I 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?!

isolation of cookies and other data between websites. although now I think firefox does that per tab anyway&site combo nowadays anyway. I mainly use it for multiple reddit accounts and gmail accounts. also good when combined with cookie auto delete for test purpose between testing site changes "freshly".

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by lost_tourist »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #42
echelon wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh, same. I thought I was the only one that found these to be impossibly buggy. The container setup/management UI is glitchy and it often forgets! containers that were created. It feels like a hack week project that got shipped to production. Despite having containers, Firefox sometimes wants to open the managed website in your current window. Or doesn't ask you at all when you have multiple containers for the same…

The struggle is that the container addon does its own syncing, separate from the browser-wide Firefox account sync (that decides the soon should be installed). Because syncing is a separate step - yet it still happens concurrently/unpredictably in the background - there is no avoiding the default new user flow that creates 4 default containers at install.

I mean there is if they'd fix it :) . Don't sync those 4 if they already exist, don't sync at all otherwise. I would assume if you are smart enough to use sync you're smart enough to know that it will blow away old "local" settings.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by pram »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #10
JW_00000 wrote: post #9

Very 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.

I still can’t believe you can only be logged into one. Also when I re-log in it shows all the tutorial pop up boxes on everything EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by fooqux »

herklwlkjwher wrote: post #49
thomastjeffery wrote: post #23

I'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…

container sync has been a thing for a while, but you have to enable it: https://i.imgur.com/UBj3TjW.png

Where do you find that at? I just looked in both the Sync settings and Container settings and I do not see that setting.
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