I really wish that this, and the other extensions it enables, were supported on Firefox for Android. There are a number of browsers that throw away your browsing data on every session (Firefox Focus, Duck Duck Go), and regular Firefox has the option to, but what I really want is to save cookies and other browsing data only on particular sites where I not only have an account, but also use it enough that logging in with autofill is too much of a hassle. Temporary containers allows this on desktop, but there's no mobile support.
Multi-Account Containers
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Re: Multi-Account Containers
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mozilla is on Googles drip. You can't expect this feature seeing much love it's against the donors intents.
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.
Not the parent poster, but is criticizing a browser I've used steadily since it became a thing for letting itself become primarily funded by it's largest competitor really "shitting on it"? Do you really not think there is a conflict of interest there?
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had similar complaints about the UX for the built-in containers extension, so as a labor of love, I wrote a helper extension to make containers a little more intuitive: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/containers-helper The simplest improvement is that you can use e.g. Alt+Shift+D to open a little popup and start typing to find your container(s). You can also use the extension to import and export containers, as we…
This functionality seems to be partially included in the official extension now. There's a "search container name field", but it's not active when you open the pop-up (hence the partial). I don't know when it arrived, I'm pretty sure it hasn't been there too long, but I don't pay too much attention to this extension's UI. I'm running Firefox 109.
It landed about a month ago. I'm the contributor who implement this patch and I already have another one in the work that would let you focus the filter box when you type "/".
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#224I'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…
You can still pin an extension to the toolbar and if it's already pinned Firefox will honor your setting in Fx 109+. IIRC, we can also in the extension manifest.json force the addon to show in the toolbar by default.
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#225I really wish that this, and the other extensions it enables, were supported on Firefox for Android. There are a number of browsers that throw away your browsing data on every session (Firefox Focus, Duck Duck Go), and regular Firefox has the option to, but what I really want is to save cookies and other browsing data only on particular sites where I not only have an account, but also use it enough that logging in wi…
If you're not looking to sign into multiples accounts on the same website, look into state partitioning/first party isolation. If you are looking to sign into multiple accounts, I use multiple browsers for this.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#227I could not have done my last job without this feature, because it required assuming multiple dummy identities across various chat platforms communicating with each other. I still use it to separate out accounts for different parts of my life (work vs conference planner vs personal).
That sounds kinda ominous, like you were pumping NFTs or spreading government propaganda or something.
Heh - no, just a tool to let companies support chat interoperability between different apps. Lots of companies are running multiple chat apps simultaneously, either due to acquisitions or because there's a department that stubbornly refuses to migrate to a new one.
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#228I'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…
The Mozilla VPN is a relabelled service by Mullvad VPN.
It has its own client application so it's a little more than simply relabelling a product. I find Mozilla client easier for less techy people so I guess both products complement themselve by targeting a different subset of the population.
Re: Multi-Account Containers
#229I'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 use Containers with Transitions (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-wi...)
It's a bit tedious to set it up at first but it's the only way I know of to get the following functionality:
With GMail open in a "google" container, non-google domain links open in non-google containers (configurable which container if any). Google domain links (drive, calendar, maps, etc) open in the google container.
Once setup, this means in your "standard" or non-specified container you can log out of all google services and stop their most explicit tracking of you through simple account cookies being read across the web while you search, etc. No longer when you visit sites that allow sign-in with google will your account name be auto-suggested, because the sites don't have that level of tracking info when you're browsing and searching outside of the google container. Viewing random trash yt videos will no longer sway the recs you get in yt.
The downside is that my google searches, done outside the google gulag, run into captcha prompts b/c I guess google search doesn't expect that much consistent traffic from someone who isn't signed into one of their services.
edit: this also means that you can, for example, containerize gmaps and set it up so that non-google domain links followed out of maps open in a non-google container. clicking a link to a business's website from their gmaps page no longers propagates your google account cookie to their site, etc. it opens in a different container, automatically.
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#230We 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.
If you use AWS SSO, I wrote an extension to automatically change containers when you log in.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aws-sso-conta...