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Re: Multi-Account Containers

#191

Post by flurdy »

I Love the Multi account feature. And its related extentions Google and facebook containers. And especially the Temporary Container extension. [1]

Only hassle I have is that I sometimes have to disable the google one if a site requires google auth but is in a non google container. Redirection wont work otherwise. Only temporarily until auth has finished.

Also I like the integration with Mozilla VPN per container. But I wish they would support disabling the VPN for some or in reverse only enable tunneling for some containers. There was a an open issue for that. [2]

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

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/2...

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#193

Post by chupasaurus »

handedness wrote: post #76
zamadatix wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For someone that hasn't used Brave in a while - what's the difference between Brave profiles and profiles in other Chromium browsers?

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,…

In Firefox this prompt is invoked with "-P" argument.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#194

Post by nikeee »

I'm using it since it was launched. For my use case, it lacked the ability to use a different container for a page based on the entire URL, not just the domain. For example, I've certain GitHub orgs that I'm using a separate account for. So the built-in ability to open sites based on the domain does not work for me.

I found the extension containerise [1], which offers the ability to assign containers based on globbing and/or a regex pattern. It's not something a typical "normal" user would need, so it's reasonable to not include this kind of feature in the built-in account container implementation.

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

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#195

Post by kaba0 »

have_faith wrote: post #188
kaba0 wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that drip is just as important for google to avoid an insanely huge monopoly lawsuit, so this is just the usual shitting on certain open-source projects without any reason.

How true is that these days? I see it mentioned a lot. Google doesn’t have to keep them afloat just to avoid some hypothetical anti monopoly issues.

Truer than ever. What other browser engine is there beside safari on macs? Not even Microsoft found it worthwhile to maintain an independent browser engine - in this world firefox is an open-source gem and instead of bringing it down for whatever reason we should try to preserve it.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#196

Post by sonar_un »

pharmakom wrote: post #192

they need to roll this into Firefox proper. Containers are an essential feature when dealing with multiple cloud environments.

I wish Firefox just had proper profiles. Multi account containers are absolutely no replacement for proper profiles with separate bookmarks, extensions, cookies, etc.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#197

Post by untoxicness »

sonar_un wrote: post #196
pharmakom wrote: post #192

they need to roll this into Firefox proper. Containers are an essential feature when dealing with multiple cloud environments.

I wish Firefox just had proper profiles. Multi account containers are absolutely no replacement for proper profiles with separate bookmarks, extensions, cookies, etc.

What kind of features are not covered by the current implementation of profiles? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...>

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#198

Post by ckastner »

slickdork wrote: post #89
ckastner wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The rules are container-specific, but you need to enable this feature first, it is off by default.

Settings -> Extension Options -> Enable Support for Container Tabs

Re: Multi-Account Containers

#199

Post by boomboomsubban »

kaba0 wrote: post #195
have_faith wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How true is that these days? I see it mentioned a lot. Google doesn’t have to keep them afloat just to avoid some hypothetical anti monopoly issues.

Truer than ever. What other browser engine is there beside safari on macs? Not even Microsoft found it worthwhile to maintain an independent browser engine - in this world firefox is an open-source gem and instead of bringing it down for whatever reason we should try to preserve it.

Google is currently facing a search monopoly lawsuit where their payment to Mozilla is being used as evidence against them. If they were funding Mozilla to prevent a browser monopoly, the strategy certainly backfired.
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