Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Facebook Container for Firefox

mozilla.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 406 posts

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#4

Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

tomc1985 wrote: post #2

Is this any different than Firefox's regular container support?

It's a convenient wrapper for that which automatically redirects Facebook pages into the container, redirects other sites to be outside the container, and deletes Facebook cookies:

> How does this compare to the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension?

> Facebook Container specifically isolates Facebook and works automatically. Firefox Multi-Account Containers is a more general extension that allows you to create containers and determine which sites open in each container.

> You can use Multi-Account Containers to create a container for Facebook and assign facebook.com to it. Multi-Account Containers will then make sure to only open facebook.com in the Facebook Container. However, unlike Facebook Container, Multi-Account Containers doesn’t prevent you from opening non-Facebook sites in your Facebook Container. So users of Multi-Account Containers need to take a bit extra care to make sure they leave the Facebook Container when navigating to other sites. In addition, Facebook Container assigns some Facebook-owned sites like Instagram and Messenger to the Facebook Container. With Multi-Account Containers, you will have to assign these in addition to facebook.com.

> Facebook Container also deletes Facebook cookies from your other containers on install and when you restart the browser, to clean up any potential Facebook trackers. Multi-Account Containers does not do that for you.

(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...)

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#5

Post by ktpsns »

tomc1985 wrote: post #2

Is this any different than Firefox's regular container support?

The addon desc (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...) says:

> Facebook Container leverages the Containers feature that is already built in to Firefox. When you enable Facebook Container, you may also see Containers named Personal, Work, Shopping, and Banking while you browse. If you wish to use multiple Containers, you’ll have the best user experience if you install the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta...

So: No, it is not.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#6

Post by Blaaguuu »

cptskippy wrote: post #3
tomc1985 wrote: post #2

Is this any different than Firefox's regular container support?

It's got Facebook in the name to ride the hate wave? I'm so glad Mozilla hired a Marketing team... /s

IIRC, this was just one engineer's side project to take their existing container tech, which might be too 'advanced' for most users, and make a one-off addon that more users might be interested in.

Do you think that Mozilla's marketing of Firefox as more privacy focused is a bad thing?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#9

Post by laumars »

cptskippy wrote: post #3
tomc1985 wrote: post #2

Is this any different than Firefox's regular container support?

It's got Facebook in the name to ride the hate wave? I'm so glad Mozilla hired a Marketing team... /s

Up until now I hadn't heard of their containers feature despite being a Firefox user so at least one techy has benefited from this update. Though I doubt I am alone.
Post reply on HN