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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by tzs » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 6:41 PM UTC

satya71 wrote: post #100

aggronn wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also doing this in chrome. I have about 5 different profiles, aliased to things like `chrome-work`, `chrome-personal`, `chrome-dev', etc. I would love to use FF, but iirc FF doesn't provide something like `firefox --profile=someIdentifier` that opens a new window in my desired profile. edit: Apparently this is bad info. I'll have to give it a try again.

It does. `firefox -no-remote -P `

There's also a firefox-bin. Anyone know what the difference between firefox and firefox-bin is nowadays?

I believe that in the far past firefox-bin was the firefox binary, and firefox was a shell script that would do things like notice you already have a firefox-bin instance open and signal it to open a new window rather than launching a new firefox-bin instance.

But nowadays, firefox and firefox-bin seem almost the same. On the current release version on Mac, for example, both are binaries, with firefox-bin 40320 bytes and firefox just 16 bytes bigger.

Info.plist in /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents gives firefox is the executable to run. I'm not sure what role firefox-bin has now, if any.

Grabbing the source and building it myself results in firefox and firefox-bin matching.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 6:43 PM UTC

nicholascamera wrote: post #107

JadoJodo wrote: post #23

A few others: - Temporary Containers[0] - Google Container[1] - Google Container w/ Integrations (YouTube, AdTech, Apps, etc)[2] - Reddit Container[3] There are a few others[4] as well, but I've found the Temporary Containers solves the 80%. -- [0] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... [1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai... [2] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en…

Do not use Temporary Containers. This extension to Multi-Account Containers looks great at first -- its Automatic mode spins up a new container each time you open a new tab, then switches that tab to an existing container, should one be associated with the TLD you visit. The problem is that Temporary Containers does not delete these temporary containers. They accumulate in the MAC containers list. There is no way to…

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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by rustyminnow » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 6:43 PM UTC

sleavey wrote: post #128

mmcclure wrote: post #34

I use Firefox multi-account containers[1] extensively, it's honestly the primary reason I use Firefox these days. The big win for me is that I _hate_ having to use the Google account switcher, so I basically set up a container for each Gmail account (work, personal, old email, etc). The nice bonus feature is you can have certain sites default to containers. I had a paid YouTube account for a while, for example, so ha…

Does this work with Firefox Sync? I'd love to have different bookmarks/cookies/accounts/etc. for work and home but use the same sync account - sometimes I work from home and want to use my work profile, but also don't want my home bookmarks showing up when I share my screen at work.

Containers won't give you two sets of bookmarks, but if you go to about:profiles, you can set up two accounts for separate bookmarks.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by JadoJodo » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 6:45 PM UTC

nicholascamera wrote: post #107

JadoJodo wrote: post #23

A few others: - Temporary Containers[0] - Google Container[1] - Google Container w/ Integrations (YouTube, AdTech, Apps, etc)[2] - Reddit Container[3] There are a few others[4] as well, but I've found the Temporary Containers solves the 80%. -- [0] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... [1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai... [2] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en…

Do not use Temporary Containers. This extension to Multi-Account Containers looks great at first -- its Automatic mode spins up a new container each time you open a new tab, then switches that tab to an existing container, should one be associated with the TLD you visit. The problem is that Temporary Containers does not delete these temporary containers. They accumulate in the MAC containers list. There is no way to…

"Delete no longer needed temporary containers 15 minutes after the last tab in it closes" is a default setting. This is not an issue I've experienced in the 3+ months I've been using this extension.

Are you sure you didn't accidentally change it?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by sleavey » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 6:45 PM UTC

rustyminnow wrote: post #133

sleavey wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this work with Firefox Sync? I'd love to have different bookmarks/cookies/accounts/etc. for work and home but use the same sync account - sometimes I work from home and want to use my work profile, but also don't want my home bookmarks showing up when I share my screen at work.

Containers won't give you two sets of bookmarks, but if you go to about:profiles, you can set up two accounts for separate bookmarks.

Physical accounts in different directories inside ~/.mozilla/firefox/? Those don't get synced to the same account as far as I know.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by jedberg » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 6:48 PM UTC

nunez wrote: post #129

mmcclure wrote: post #34

I use Firefox multi-account containers[1] extensively, it's honestly the primary reason I use Firefox these days. The big win for me is that I _hate_ having to use the Google account switcher, so I basically set up a container for each Gmail account (work, personal, old email, etc). The nice bonus feature is you can have certain sites default to containers. I had a paid YouTube account for a while, for example, so ha…

Multi-Account Containers with Containerize is an unbeatable combo. Until Chrome gets something like this (I doubt it), I'm never leaving Firefox because of it.

What does Containerize gain you over Multi-account containers? Is the pattern matching more robust?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by 0-_-0 » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 6:52 PM UTC

To do this for all sites you can enable First Party Isolation if Firefox by toggling privacy.firstparty.isolate in about:config, or have a UI button that toggles is through an addon [1]. I've been using it for years and it only seems to break some payment processors, and only rarely.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/first-party-i...

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by lern_too_spel » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 6:53 PM UTC

mmcclure wrote: post #34

I use Firefox multi-account containers[1] extensively, it's honestly the primary reason I use Firefox these days. The big win for me is that I _hate_ having to use the Google account switcher, so I basically set up a container for each Gmail account (work, personal, old email, etc). The nice bonus feature is you can have certain sites default to containers. I had a paid YouTube account for a while, for example, so ha…

The worst thing about the Google account switcher is logging into some third party sites sometimes just uses the first logged in account instead of showing the account switcher, so I can't log into the correct account without logging out of all the Google accounts.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 6:53 PM UTC

satya71 wrote: post #100

aggronn wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also doing this in chrome. I have about 5 different profiles, aliased to things like `chrome-work`, `chrome-personal`, `chrome-dev', etc. I would love to use FF, but iirc FF doesn't provide something like `firefox --profile=someIdentifier` that opens a new window in my desired profile. edit: Apparently this is bad info. I'll have to give it a try again.

It does. `firefox -no-remote -P `

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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by jedberg » Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 6:56 PM UTC

I've been using containers on Firefox for a long time now. And I love it.

But my biggest issue is Firefox performance on MacOS. The only reason it's not my primary browser is because Safari is just so much better.

What I wonder is, is this just me, or does everyone have this problem?