> 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?
Per container.
Multi-Account Containers
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#242How does this compare to using First-party Isolation and Cookie Auto-delete (on whitelist mode)?
Before FPI, containers were a good way to isolate cookies. Nowadays, it's a bit less useful for that. However, it still offers a nice solution to connect to multiple accounts simultaneously, have a different vpn/proxy per container. Also, it could be extended to isolate more things (e.g. different level of privacy settings, history, extensions, etc)
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#243This is a great feature that has a terrible implementation.
It stubbornly tries to open both Gmail and Youtube in Google container. Even if I remove that container and create separate ones for Gmail and Youtube, when I try to open those sites in their respective containers, it will refuse to open it. If I restart firefox and retry, it goes back to creating the Google container and open both in that container.
Absolutely terrible UX for something that could be as simple as:
1. Right click on a tab and let me select a container
2. Ask if I want to remember it.
3. Actually remember it.
It actually shows the container in the address-bar which is a perfect spot for me to click on that and change it to another container - but noooo, that would be so obvious hence clicking on it does nothing. Great UX.
Everytime I want to support Firefox and come back to it, shit like this just drives me mad and makes me go to the terrible but polished alternative of Chrome. Sigh.
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I use this with the Temporary Containers extension, so every tab is a new container, and a new session to the website I'm visiting. When I close the tab/container, all information about that site is lost. My browsing behavior - by default - is cookies live for as long as the container lives (and other cached elements). It makes me feel safer, browsing online, that I have to opt-in to remembering cookies and having th…
Wait, Firefox handles extension preferences globally? This is exactly what I've been wishing Chrome would do. I've spent a ton of time writing weird scripts and hacking Chrome to copy and sync various extension preferences from one profile to another.
Of course ideally I could specify specific extensions to work globally vs per profile.
(I'm perfectly fine having different profiles use different windows)
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#245I've been using distinct FF profiles to separate work browsing from personal browsing on the same machine. I give each profile a differently colored theme to visually separate the two and discourage accidentally using one profile for another's purpose. Would multi-account containers be better for that workflow?
Succinctly yes, as this was what I was doing until recently.
I had about 6 or 7 Firefox profiles encompassing 2 of my businesses, clients, and some administration of my fiancée's companies she runs.
For each of my two businesses I had two separate profiles, one with personal accounts and a second I logged in with 'Admin' accounts for various services and infrastructure.
It was a little tedious, but it worked. However I would waste so much time tabbing through multiple Firefox windows working out what was the correct one for the job in hand.
Firefox Multi-Account containers got that down to two profiles, and I'd say I really only work 99% of the time in a single profile.
Simple Tab Groups is invaluable too to reduce the tab 'clutter' that comes from working out of a single profile/window.
Lastly as an added bonus, when I was comfortable with Multi-Account Containers, I successfully weened my fiancée off of Chrome and onto Firefox so she could flick between different accounts for those businesses she works with too.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Private browsing mode is essentially a new temporary container. It let's you keep things separate and toss them when you're done.
Yes, and I'd like to use more than one simultaneously.
Hi! Sorry to post here, but I couldn't find any way to contact you. You wrote here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30301639 that you set up et and cloudflare tunnel. Can you tell me how? It doesn't work for me, et doesn't see an open port on the server.
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#247I 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.
Brilliant concept! I absolutely love this idea. Shame Mozilla seems to have stopped innovation. )≠
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#248I don't get how Chrome does not have it and very few people are aware that there's this browser called Firefox that has this feature that's very hard to live without. Another thing Ctrl+Tab MRU. I just could not get back to using Chrome for these 2 reasons alone.
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#249I don't get how Chrome does not have it and very few people are aware that there's this browser called Firefox that has this feature that's very hard to live without. Another thing Ctrl+Tab MRU. I just could not get back to using Chrome for these 2 reasons alone.
Because it would interfere with Google's data collection and so they don't want you to have it. Instead of having disposable browsing containers they make Chrome itself automatically log into your Google account, then offer to continuously upload all of your browsing data via Google Chrome Sync. It's an anti-privacy user story.