I tried this a while back but I've found having two instances of Firefox for work/personal much easier to seperate my life with. I just hotkeyed the launch of the work and personal one and use different themes on the two browsers.
Multi-Account Containers
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Re: Multi-Account Containers
#112It's good, but still lacking some useful features: * SOCKS5 proxy per container setting. * More custom icons and colors for container.
SOCKS5 proxy per containers setting is there. Click the extension icon (in the toolbar not in the url bar) -> Manage Containers -> click the container you want to manage -> Advanced proxy settings
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#113It's good, but still lacking some useful features: * SOCKS5 proxy per container setting. * More custom icons and colors for container.
SOCKS5 proxy per containers setting is there. Click the extension icon (in the toolbar not in the url bar) -> Manage Containers -> click the container you want to manage -> Advanced proxy settings
I think it's not working due not to not proxying DNS requests.
This extension handles it correctly: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-pro...
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#114Would be cool if each container could generate a unique browser fingerprint. Right now they are sharing the same fingerprint, which isn't great for privacy.
I think this is what the Temporary Containers extension does? For me, it's a fundamental part of my browsing at this point, what I install immediately after installing an adblocker. I feel resentful that the Temporary Containers extension isn't available on mobile Firefox. To me it would be as if adblocking extensions wouldn't be available. It's one thing of many that seems really different about mobile Firefox, to a…
Unfortunately the containers are all using the same fingerprint: https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/51
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#115I'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…
In regards to #1 - we have a feature (WIP right now) that adds the ability to delete data (cache, cookies and local storage) per container. Look for that in a future release.
https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/249...
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#116I'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…
it also has about 3-4 different UIs, all of which have very slightly different options
brilliant functionality, just the UI is beyond awful
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#117Earlier 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 can restart your browser without losing what's it your incognito windows.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
ya know.....it never occured to me to really track down the json file. Even though i totally know firefox really loves making use of them. Even had a sanitize script at one point that would kill any session on my work computer nightly and scrub my history without logging me out of sync account at a previous job.
I dont setup a new machine all that often that I care too much. I figured it was a misconfigured cloud DB point, that at best I could get Mozilla to clean up and let me re-sync, but even then didnt bother to open a ticket.
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#119Some ui/ux issues aside, this is an incredibly useful feature for both work and personal use.
An example of it being useful for work: I can have several AWS consoles for different environments open, so I can quickly compare configs between environments.
For personal use, I can contain facebook inside its own container so it’s cookies don’t pollute my regular browsing
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#120Firefox multi account containers are amazing. For example : multiple o365 accounts, fb segregation, multiple Google accounts.... Amazing feature, underrated.
Yep, only thing it doesn't work well with for me it's teams web (because teams is so boneheaded in that you can't be logged in to two tenants at the same time). Osteen the container tab gets stuck in a reload loop and then the dropped icecream picture "Oops something went wrong".
Not even with two separate containers?