This feature is possibly the main reason why I use FireFox in stead of any alternative. It is just so very nice to be able to log into multiple google accounts (in my case) at the same time.
Multi-Account Containers
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Re: Multi-Account Containers
#202Here's an interesting link:
How Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection and container extensions work together
https://addons.mozilla.org/blog/how-firefoxs-total-cookie-pr...
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#203Why is it worth the effort?
If your company uses gmail, or any other single sign on, its a really good tool for separating work/home digital life.
multiple accounts for the same site
Facebook/instagram/reddit/youtube is really hard to have separate non-linked logins. Plus its a massive faff logging in and out. assigning accounts to tabs saves time.
keeping your youtube recommendations clear
Youtube's recommendation algorithm looks at all you are playing and figures out what you should watch next. If you see something music based, then it will hard pivot your recommendations to music. If you have something populist, then expect a fucktonne of clickbait.
Have a "clean" and "dirty" profile really improves the quality of the videos I get shown.
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#204Perhaps a renaming would help this take off... Containers is overused in the dev world, and is rather ambiguous in the "outside."
Cargo containers from those big ships are well-known and people can assume that each container brings a set of homogeneous items. The word "container" pictures an isolated thing, which is what the add-on provides.
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#206How does this compare to using First-party Isolation and Cookie Auto-delete (on whitelist mode)?
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#207Why should I use this instead of multiple profiles?
- You don’t need separate windows
- You can configure rules, so onlinebanking.example.com (or whatever) always open in a separate profile for security.
- Your history/bookmarks/extensions/settings/etc. are not separate per profile.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
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/
Why do we need this?
I'd have every tld on it's own profile and allow creating groups that merge profiles if needed.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
…which does not support Firefox sync to sync its (container)settings
I don't see any reason why it couldn't. It's just a pull request away!
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#210I'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…
the container is definitely synced at least for over a year. since I bought my laptop last year and everything is synced