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Re: Multi-Account Containers

#91

Post by phpisthebest »

echelon wrote: post #16
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…

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 container setup/management UI is glitchy and it often forgets! containers that were created.

been running it for years, never once has it forgot 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 site.

ok, so you right click and have it reopen in the correct container, not a big deal. Though I cant say I have ever had this problem either despite using it very day all day, 16 hrs + per say with lots of containers and tabs (often over 100 tabs open)

>>The integration with password management tools is obviously rough.

I use bitwarden, have no issue using it inside of various containers

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#92

Post by phpisthebest »

nickstinemates wrote: post #71
worble wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd argue it's far superior - no need to be switching windows constantly and setting the domain automatically loads that site in the correct context.

Multiple windows for me is a feature, not a bug.

Multiple windows for me is the Deal Breaker.

I want ONE window with all my tabs, in a vertical List (tree Style Tabs and/or Sideberry) which is another feature Chrome lacks completely, it implementation of Vertical Tabs is TERRIBLE

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#94

Post by dabernathy89 »

I could not have done my last job without this feature, because it required assuming multiple dummy identities across various chat platforms communicating with each other. I still use it to separate out accounts for different parts of my life (work vs conference planner vs personal).

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#96

Post by JadoJodo »

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 and it works well. You can also add a prefix to your temporary containers. I prefixed mine with “Mr. Meseeks #<Container Number”, which made it pretty hilarious if you also use the “kill tab after time” setting: Mr. Meseeks tabs closing in the background, completing their purpose.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#97

Post by nvln »

I've been using this for a few months now and I love it. Along side temporary containers[1] and tridactyl[2] which gives

- auto containerization based on url match

- keyboard driven way to open new pages in a specific container

FF transforms into a powerful browser OS running applications with hard boundaries.

The only UX issue (which admittedly could be because I have changed the theme to be minimal by hacking userChrome) is that sometimes the temporary containers I spawn are the ones I need to retain (user storage) etc and I tend to forget that and loose data.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

[2]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#98

Post by freddie_mercury »

croutonwagon wrote: post #70
thomastjeffery wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

This happened to me many, many times. Luckily I'm able to track down containers.json and remove them that way.

It also would never sync to my laptop for some reason?

The overall bad syncing experience was the main reason I stopped using them.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#100

Post by grepfru_it »

JadoJodo wrote: post #96
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.

I use this and it works well. You can also add a prefix to your temporary containers. I prefixed mine with “Mr. Meseeks #<Container Number”, which made it pretty hilarious if you also use the “kill tab after time” setting: Mr. Meseeks tabs closing in the background, completing their purpose.

Auto Tab Discard[0] add-on if you don’t want the tab to be lost but want to reclaim your memory and cpu cycles

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

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