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Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by rraghur »

jck wrote: post #137
rraghur wrote: post #121

Earlier 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/

Have tried that - but the patterns there aren't case insensitive (and no way I could find to make them so); the one that I use is a fork of containerise - search for bifulsushi on bitbucket

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by e12e »

I'm not sure how this fits against profiles, which has been in Firefox since Netscape Navigator?

Does containers also allow multiple winddows to share a profile?

For example, I have a work profile, and a home profile - and each has a window for browsing (eg: hn), and a window on my laptop screen for videochat (so when I look at the chat, I don't look way above the camera - which happen if I look at my main screen).

I can move tabs between these windows too (eg: quickly read something while still "looking" at the camera).

Does containers also allow this "single container, multiple windows" use-case?

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by jwuphysics »

mozillamaxx wrote: post #115
slickdork wrote: post #27

I'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...

Is there any way to change the keyboard shortcuts on the Multi Account Containers? Cmd+Alt+. is the default shortcut for 1Password on Linux.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by jerieljan »

e12e wrote: post #212

I'm not sure how this fits against profiles, which has been in Firefox since Netscape Navigator? Does containers also allow multiple winddows to share a profile? For example, I have a work profile, and a home profile - and each has a window for browsing (eg: hn), and a window on my laptop screen for videochat (so when I look at the chat, I don't look way above the camera - which happen if I look at my main screen). I…

I have limited experience in using multiple Firefox profiles, but assuming it works like Chrome's, I like Multi-Account Containers instead because it lets me mix and match tabs running on different containers if you really have to.

I mean, I appreciate keeping a single window dedicated to my Work container running all of my work tabs to properly isolate my sessions, but sometimes I have services that I have to login on other profiles (e.g., I use a consultant Miro account that I DO want to run on the same window, even if it's not using my Work container).

It's also a lot easier to identify which tabs are running which containers thanks to their colored tab markers and the container name indicated on the address bar. It's essential if you have to say, login to two separate Gmail sessions on the same window without their sessions getting mixed up.

Finally, it's different from profiles because you can optionally associate websites to containers (e.g., if I open ycombinator.com it's opened using my Personal container while opening miro.com automatically loads a different container, while I disable this feature for sites that I login across multiple containers for different contexts, such as Gmail or the AWS Console)

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by superdeeda »

0x49d1 wrote: post #156
thrwawy74 wrote: post #82

This is so much more powerful than first party isolation in Chrome. Firefox is on the only browser with something like this. I love having multiple tabs open and logged into the same website with different accounts/cookies. I also use this in conjunction with Temporary Containers so every tab is a new container automatically. If I left-click a link it will navigate keeping the same container. If I control+click it wi…

But why is this REALLY "more powerful than first party isolation"? I don't need this feature every day, in case I do - just create separate profile and it's easy to run it right from toolbar. The only usecase I can remember: specific domains can be automatically opened in container - and that's a good feature to have, but not really a dealbreaker. Another difference: organization as a tab in the same window - not tha…

When I worked for an agency, I used this feature ALL the time. It had to be easy for me to switch between, for example, Trello boards of different clients or different Datadog accounts.

Even now, working at a single company, I use multi-account containers to keep tabs open for our different AWS and Datadog accounts.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by superdeeda »

Queue29 wrote: post #135
Zecc wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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.

> I literally want the _opposite_ of that.

That's fine, but not everyone does. I think both are useful and would prefer a browser that can support both profiles and "containers.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by fnord77 »

> Additionally, you can integrate Mozilla VPN into each container to add an extra layer of protection to your container tabs.

so you can have a different IP address per tab?

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by heresie-dabord »

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…

Firefox MAC is one of the first extensions that I install, after uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Cookie Autodelete.

I install MAC despite my dislike for what the UI has become.

The UX was fine until Firefox started pushing its VPN service via this extension. I encourage the use of VPNs, that isn't my objection. But now the installation of MAC requires too many clicks just to configure it, and some of those clicks are to dismiss things that I didn't request.

Good UX practices:

    1 = offer reasonable defaults

    2 = be visually intelligible (make it easy to recognise borders, boxes, controls)

    3 = make it easy to access important properties (don't bury or hide what people need)

    4 = don't be annoying, nagging, exhausting, or confounding

    5 = favour exposing features in an organised way

    6 = let the user customise
The MAC extension suffers in points 2, 3, and 4 during installation. Now that Firefox has forced the grouping of all extensions in an Extension folder that cannot be moved, we now have a problem with point 6 too.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by albert_e »

MiguelHudnandez wrote: post #131
albert_e wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> 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.

yes absolutely.

I did this for my local jupyter notebook server and pinned it to my taskbar. effectively works like a desktop app.

The amount of storage that these chrome profiles occupy on the hard disk is sometimes irksome. I have not compared it to Firefox though.

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