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Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by Zecc » Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 5:08 PM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #205

Zecc wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can restart your browser without losing what's it your incognito windows.

So it stores full state when the application is closed, that's a long way off "incognito". Was it always like that?

I expressed myself poorly. In retrospect it sounds like the exact opposite of what I meant, in fact.

What I meant is if you open what you would otherwise open in an incognito window in a container instead, you can restart your browser without those tabs being closed and the respective state being lost.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by kasabali » Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 5:14 PM UTC

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.

You can use the old profiles feature for this.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by e40 » Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 5:48 PM UTC

I tried it before, but was frustrated due to sync issues.

Also, it seems like it's been abandoned, since it has changed little since the introduction.

Here are some thoughtful 1 star reviews:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Honestly, my own testing and all these complaints and that it hasn't been given simple care and feeding mean I'm going to avoid it until all this changes.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by mattpallissard » Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 5:48 PM UTC

I want to see a systemd integration on Linux.

Each account gets it's own slice, each tab gets it's own transient unit. You get nested cgroups and accounting for free. Eliminating the resource hog problem and prioritizing workloads.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by hardwaresofton » Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 6:16 PM UTC

Nadya wrote: post #160

hardwaresofton wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tab Groups were better when they were baked into the browser. They were extremely buggy when the code was removed and moved into an extension. Not only often losing all of my tabs - but completely forgetting all of my tab groups altogether. Causing me to lose not only important data but also having to re-organize all my tabs into tab groups only to inevitably have to redo all the work next time FF decided it wanted…

Thank you for taking the time to respond back to me - I honestly appreciate it. The release notes honestly weren't all that helpful - but looking over the Git repo, it looks like a lot of the major crashing/session restoration bugs were squashed in 2020-2021 and the backup functionality was improved enough to make backups more user friendly and somewhat more automated (aka: worth using and not 4 days out of date). Th…

Glad to hear you were able to at least find some remnants of the issues (and that they were solved!).

The hobbling of web extensions seems only set to continue but really glad that super useful stuff can still be done with them (and hopefully that continues, or the browser fracturing intensifies).

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by kjsingh » Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 6:58 PM UTC

nickstinemates wrote: post #29

Experience 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.

you can choose the color for container and it shows in ur tab

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by mjevans » Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 7:37 PM UTC

Multiple Profiles - for many years. Work, Personal, etc.

I'd love if Firefox as a bare URL handler ASKED, with an out of any profile context dialog, WHICH profile and window to load a URL in.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by waynesonfire » Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 7:47 PM UTC

is the button to confirm opening the the url in a new container broken for anyone else? it just doesn't respond for me and has been this way for a while.

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by rcMgD2BwE72F » Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 9:45 PM UTC

NoGravitas wrote: post #221

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 wi…

Cookie AutoDelete does it well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

It works on Firefox mobile beta and nightly with an addons collection: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-n...

Re: Multi-Account Containers

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Post by sdk- » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 12:24 AM UTC

thomastjeffery wrote: post #8

kibwen wrote: post #7

Can anyone clarify what this provides compared to the built-in container support in Firefox? On stock Firefox, it appears that I can do everything listed in the documentation above, with the exception that this extension appears to allow you to configure a domain to automatically open in a given container. Is that the only difference?

This is the user interface to that built-in container support.

Mainly these two things: * Assign sites to a specific per container * Set VPN/Proxy per container