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Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by MiguelHudnandez »

albert_e wrote: post #125
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.

Other than separate windows... is it very different if we use different Chrome user profiles to keep the saved logins, sessions, and cookies separate?

This does work. Not quite as nice as Firefox’s multi-account containers because tabs can’t co-mingle in the same window. But totally serviceable.

I use a combination of both every day at work.

I like chrome for some things too because you can make a single-site-browser window in chrome, so certain websites can be treated like first class applications in the alt tab menu.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by hardwaresofton »

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.

Hey if you haven't heard of Simple Tab Groups, also consider adding that to your setup:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

I use them both together and it's amazing.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by neltnerb »

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…

You don't like the UI? It feels like a core feature to me, the only serious friction I have is that I also use temporary containers which overrides my selection to open a certain site in a particular container.

But you just tell it not to open a temporary containers for that domain and you're good.

So really I've only seen this take much thought when combined with temporary containers.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by handedness »

zamadatix wrote: post #107
handedness wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There may be other Chromium-based browsers which do this, but none that I use: on launch the user is (optionally) prompted with a profile selection tool, with additional options to create a new profile or go into a guest session. I appreciate this because without it I often end up wondering why something isn't behaving properly, and after a moment of confusion then realize I'm in the wrong profile. It's not perfect,…

Ah, that sounds nearly identical to the standard launch-time profile picker from the Chromium base - example from Chrome https://i.imgur.com/7b7YqUY.png

Sure is, thanks. At the time I settled on Brave for that use case I saw no such behavior from any of my other Chromium-based browsers. Either Brave upstreamed it, or I did something wrong on my end (likely).

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by Queue29 »

Zecc wrote: post #122
skybrian wrote: post #105

Why should I use this instead of multiple profiles?

- You can have multiples tabs in different containers in a single window. - You can tell your browser you always want to open a given site in a given container, so if you forget and try to open in the wrong one, it will remind you and give you the option to use the right one. - The name of the container you're in is shown at the end of the address bar, in the unlikely case you forget. Every tab has a thin line of a d…

> You can have multiples tabs in different containers in a single window.

I literally want the _opposite_ of that. Chrome makes it so that a Window is specific to a profile. Makes it very simple to keep say Work and Home profiles separate, for example. Especially if you set color schemes for each window.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by vidyesh »

eliaspro wrote: post #26
trusz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Arc browser [1] could be nice alternative as it handles profiles pretty smooth. [1]: https://arc.net/

This site basically says nothing except "sign up".

I have heard so much about this browser from dev & tech podcasts and websites[1]. Those who use it really love it, I wish their website had a video demo at least.

This landing page has some screenshots at least https://students.arc.net/

[1]https://www.theverge.com/23462235/arc-web-browser-review

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by jck »

rraghur wrote: post #121
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…

Is there a good native way now to set up url patterns (domain, sub domain, regex etc) to open in a specified container? I've been using a non add-on store addon for this.. and no idea why something basic like that would not be in the core or this add-on

I am not sure what you mean by non addon store addon. Containerise is on amo and supports glob and regex patterns.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/containerise/

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by mackrevinack »

these containers come in real handy when you want to watch a youtube video but you don't want the youtube algorithm recommending you similar videos for weeks just because you clicked on one video.

its similar to opening the video in an incognito window but with a container it will remember whatever cookie settings you choose instead of asking you each time

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by ctxc »

One thing that's been working well for me for years: just use separate browsers for separate things.

Firefox, FireFox Nightly. It takes little time for you to understand the context(you see the icon or browser and know exactly what "profile" it is), there's no suggestion or link interference etc.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by ShinTakuya »

ctxc wrote: post #139

One thing that's been working well for me for years: just use separate browsers for separate things. Firefox, FireFox Nightly. It takes little time for you to understand the context(you see the icon or browser and know exactly what "profile" it is), there's no suggestion or link interference etc.

It's fine if you only have a few separate concerns to separate (similarly you can also use multiple browser profiles) but it's not really scalable if you want to separate 10s of sites, clients, etc.
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