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Multi-Account Containers
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#82This is so much more powerful than first party isolation in Chrome. Firefox is on the only browser with something like this. I love having multiple tabs open and logged into the same website with different accounts/cookies. I also use this in conjunction with Temporary Containers so every tab is a new container automatically. If I left-click a link it will navigate keeping the same container. If I control+click it will open the link in a new/separate container. Also I use another one called Container Proxy so some containers go out through different VPNs. As much as Mozilla is fucking up Firefox currently, this is the 1 thing no other browser does better.
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#83Social media is dead. It was never social. If I had ads to sell, then I wouldn't be looking to spend the budget on deserts like Facebook and Twitter.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Chrome itself has profiles, which I use for exactly the same use case (multiple AWS logins)
You're correct. It does, but the last time I tried it it does not prompt on launch as Brave can, which provides a nice reality check for my addled mind.
I dislike certain aspects of Brave for other reasons, but this is why I have an unholy number of browsers installed and end up making use of nearly all of them regularly, unfortunately.
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#85Perhaps a renaming would help this take off... Containers is overused in the dev world, and is rather ambiguous in the "outside."
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#86Couldn't live without this feature, I just wish I could have a ublock ruleset/whitelist per container.
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#87I 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…
What you're describing is the main use case for this. Are you sure you're using it correctly? You're not supposed to change default container for that webpage all the time or anything like that. I for instance have a bookmark for a page. I right click it and select which container to opening it in. I often open it in different containers, have different tabs of it open at the same time etc.
Based on some of the comments, maybe I'm "holding it wrong." I don't know, but I spent a good 20-30 minutes trying to get this sorted out before deciding it wasn't worth the time.
Love Firefox, and I like what the Multi-Account Containers are trying to be, but it just didn't work for me. And it sounds like I'm not the only one who's run into this issue.
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#88Fifteen years ago I developed CookiePie [1]. You can see in the video opening two different gmail accounts in different tabs on the same window. This was a relatively successful Firefox extension to use separate and temporary cookie containers in different tabs. Since the Firefox API does include these capabilities, it was a pure hack, but it worked, just it was impossible to cope with every new upgrade of Firefox.
Briefly, the core of the hack was this:
(1) Firefox network hooks were not linked to UI tabs.
(2) So, I traverse all the object graph and find indirect links.
(3) I used those links to connect the network hooks with the UI, even when they conceptually were independent from the FF extension.
I sent the extension to the "Extend Firefox Prize" but didn't came with a single mention.
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#89I'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…
Cookie AutoDelete is great for custom site-specific cookie policies and is container-aware, see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
thanks, i installed this. I couldn't find a way to set it to 'always delete everything from container x and never anything from container y' though.
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#90Coolest feature is per container socks5 support so each container can send traffic through a different socks 5 server. Any VPN offering socks5 on their gateways should work. I'm using IVPN which expose socks5 on each of their WireGuard servers - there is demo on their blog - https://www.ivpn.net/blog/socks5-proxies-app-based-vpn-tunne...