- will the mozilla vpn keep a static ip assigned per container?
- is the browser footprint completely unique per container where the website called on thinks you're a fully different user? or its just seperating cookies and sessions?
- is this just to keep accounts seperate or helps with privacy?
Multi-Account Containers
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#172I'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 userC…
whats a use case for temporary containers? Throwaway email? Does the called on server think you're a first time visitor each container?
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#173Would 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.
would pay for this feature, does anyone know of another extension that does this to be used in conjunction?
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#174Experience is still lacking compared to Chrome profiles. Chrome profiles are so much better UX wise than any other solution, especially the color coding of the window.
could care less about UX care about the data segmentation of which firefox is miles ahead
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#175Experience is still lacking compared to Chrome profiles. Chrome profiles are so much better UX wise than any other solution, especially the color coding of the window.
Firefox does profiles too.
yup you log into a profile and then the containers and its profiles and settings are a child of that so you can use containers on different devices with same settings and containers
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#176Coolest 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...
With different profiles you have different settings -> completely independent connection settings, if you want. What's the difference here with Chromium profiles for example?
I think ff's containers are generally more powerful. Here's a random example: I live outside of the country I was born in, but I still have bank accounts and stuff there. These bank accounts freak out if I log in from my actual IP. Rather than needing to run a system-wide VPN every time I want to use one of those sites, I can set a rule that will automatically open them in a container (in the same window) with preset custom connection settings.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 yo…
For what it’s worth, Safari’s incognito mode works exactly how you described it — separate session for each incognito tab/window.
So you can't open two tabs for the same site and share the session between them?
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#179I'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.
Sadly the Temporary Containers extension seems abandoned at this point. No updates in two years.
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#180I'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…
You can take care of #1 the way people here suggested, but I believe you can also do it backwards by having firefox delete ALL cookies at exit and whitelisting some domain's cookies. (Cookies sand Site data, check "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" and hit Manage Exceptions right next to it to whitelist some domains)
For #2 you do not need Firefox's VPN service. I am using it with wireguard and a socks5 proxy on the other end. I have a 'proxy' container configured but you can have more than one container with proxy as well. (In advanced proxy settings the syntax is socks://10.0.99.82:1080 )