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Re: Multi-Account Containers

#61

Post by thomastjeffery »

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

Yes, and the flow is as I described.

1. Install Firefox.

2. Log in to fresh Firefox instance.

3. Let browser-wide sync happen.

4. Sync installs multi-account containers addon.

5. Four empty default containers are created. New user welcome flow is active.

6. Sign in to multi-account containers addon. Wait for container sync to do its thing.

7. Containers sync invisibly in the background.

- Default containers that you deleted before (in the instance you are syncing from) still exist in this fresh instance.

- New user welcome UX is still active.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#62

Post by [deleted] »

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

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Re: Multi-Account Containers

#63

Post by echelon »

lost_tourist wrote: post #58
thomastjeffery wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The tool needs to get out of the way. People are busy and have a million other things on their minds. Grappling with an obtuse, broken product is a hurdle.

As it stands, Firefox containers are 10x more complicated than regular browsing and it exposes sharp edges.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#64

Post by thomastjeffery »

fooqux wrote: post #60
herklwlkjwher wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It might be always-enabled now. Either way, containers sync is a separate event that can't be triggered manually.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#65

Post by herklwlkjwher »

fooqux wrote: post #60
herklwlkjwher wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://i.imgur.com/hMmnlB7.png

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#66

Post by yipeedipee »

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 ?

You keep your browsing history for one but clear the cookies out after automatically.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#67

Post by zamadatix »

handedness wrote: post #4
ryan-duve wrote: post #2

We 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.

It's not an identical feature, but I have some workflows which require Chromium and compartmentalization between a multiple accounts, and Brave's profiles aren't a bad alternative.

For someone that hasn't used Brave in a while - what's the difference between Brave profiles and profiles in other Chromium browsers?

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#68

Post by Larrikin »

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?!

I use mine for organization (all banking sites are separate from shopping websites) and to cordon off toxic sites like Facebook.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#69

Post by jlokier »

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 isn't as private as the name suggests. I was surprised one day to open a tab in Incognito and see the site I visited knew who I was. That's because I had logged in to a related site in a tab I'd forgotten about in another Incognito window.

My assumption up to then was that each newly opened Incognito tab or window was it's own private session, but this turned out to be wrong - they all share state, as if you had one separate but shared profile called Incognito. This was a little upsetting as I'd been using Incognito for years without realising the data sharing going on.

Temporary Containers does what I'd expected from Incognito. Each new temporary container has its own isolated cookies etc from all the others. So now I open a TC when I want to visit a site without identity or tracking, or to login temporarily with a different account, and don't use Incognito at all.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#70

Post by croutonwagon »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #61
herklwlkjwher wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes, and the flow is as I described. 1. Install Firefox. 2. Log in to fresh Firefox instance. 3. Let browser-wide sync happen. 4. Sync installs multi-account containers addon. 5. Four empty default containers are created. New user welcome flow is active. 6. Sign in to multi-account containers addon. Wait for container sync to do its thing. 7. Containers sync invisibly in the background. - Default containers that you…

Also....for me. At one point a janked up Firefox instlal on 8.1 created something like 100+ duplicates of some of my containers, specifically ones names TEst and Test2.

So each time i setup a new browser and sync then, i have to go through and manually delete all the duplicates.

They dont re-appear once deleted and changes still sync (ie: if i add a URL rule to always open in x container) but holy crap is it annoying.

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