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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by shock »

Spivak wrote: post #101
oldandboring wrote: post #41

I use the 'Containerise' plugin along with the following configuration (which I am constantly tweaking) to keep the big tech companies isolated from each other and the rest of the web. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/ I'm also increasingly using it to keep their various properties isolated from each other (eg. keeping Bing separate from the rest of Microsoft) to reduce tracking even furthe…

This add-on has the same problem as Temporary containers. If you want to isolate Facebook and click a link to Spotify it will open Spotify in the Facebook container :( So far only the Google/FB container add-ons do this right.

> If you want to isolate Facebook and click a link to Spotify it will open Spotify in the Facebook container :(

If you are talking about the Temporary containers extension, that's not the case. The extension is not the most easy to use, but it certainly supports opening Spotify in a different container when clicking a link in FB. You either don't have the Navigation→Target Domain set to Different from Tab Domain & Subdomains or you have Exclusion Patterns set which exempt Spotify.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by rdtsc »

welfare wrote: post #126
jmnicolas wrote: post #118

Browser finger printing will defeat this. I wonder how prevalent it is. Most of the sites I visit seem not to recognize me without cookies but I always wonder if it's just a "ploy" to make me feel untracked. While I'm at it, anyone has good resources on how not to be finger printed (without going full Tor browser)? Do I have to disable Javascript?

Hi, I did my thesis on browser fingerprinting. Most algorithms that build profiles and look for combinations of features that are unique. The best way to hide your fingerprint is to be as similar to everyone as possible. So that means use as much of the standards as possible that comes with the OS. Do not use anything that would not be considered mainstream (e.g. don't be the only person from Guatemala on Opera, Linu…

Is there anything a user could do to switch a common "corporate laptop" profile, either manually (set this resolution, these fonts, etc) or via an extension.

I know about Privacy Badger and they provide some protection but not from all fingerprinting. Their statement about is:

https://privacybadger.org/#Does-Privacy-Badger-prevent-finge...

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Privacy Badger can detect canvas based fingerprinting, and will block third party domains that use it. Detection of other forms of fingerprinting and protections against first-party fingerprinting are ongoing projects.

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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by ringer »

avian wrote: post #141
nextos wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Temporary Containers has an option "Delete no longer needed Temporary Containers" which defaults to 15 minutes, but can also be set to immediate. Are you setting this option to something else? Temporary Containers works really well for me. I have per domain isolation, which only breaks very very few sites (Gmail and Outlook 365). For those I have regular persistent containers. Alternatively, I can always open a new p…

It's a long-standing bug that also affects me. It's quite annoying since it's easy to irreversibly hose up your sync account by going over the remote storage quota. Maybe you don't have a Firefox account and/or sync setup? There are related issues opened for Temporary Containers, MAC and Firefox and at least from the public discussions not much is happening about it.

I use Temporary containers heavily and the MAC sync is also enabled but I never see anything like this. Sometimes 1-2 container it remains but I can delete it manually. Maybe I'm lucky with this.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by tsotpsstt »

jedberg wrote: post #140

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?

I use Firefox on Macbook 13 (2017) mainly because performance is significantly better for me compared to Chrome and even Safari.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by KallDrexx »

timvdalen wrote: post #113
jacksonlango wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you use windows? I found that having multiple GitHub account is infuriating on windows because it forces you to go into an obscure security manager to delete a record in order to switch which account your using. Never found a way around it.

I had never heard of this so I just tried to reproduce this - I have no trouble logging into two separate GitHub accounts in different Chrome profiles. What makes Firefox profiles different?

I think he's talking about the windows credential manager for HTTPS authorization for cloning/pushing.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by shawnb576 »

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…

Agree that containers are Firefox #1 killer feature and incredibly useful.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by jedberg »

barbs wrote: post #158
jedberg wrote: post #140

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?

I use Firefox on Mac, but I don't notice any performance hits. At least not compared to Chrome, or browsers on other operating systems. I don't use Safari so maybe I don't know what I'm missing out on. What performance issues specifically do you notice?

The two main things I notice:

Some websites basically crash the computer on Firefox but run fine on Safari. Mostly JS heavy sites.

The energy usage of Firefox is way higher than Safari, which in turns makes my fans spin a lot harder. Basically some sites will peg the CPU and hit max fan speed, but the same site just sips energy on Safari.

Video streaming is a prime example of this. I can use twitch on Safari and it uses maybe 30% CPU. Twitch on Firefox uses 150% CPU.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by aendruk »

JadoJodo wrote: post #134
nicholascamera wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I don't know what, but something causes it to leak. I've been using it for about a year and several of the low numbered containers have accumulated duplicates:

Edit: Apparently HN strips box drawing characters. Imagine the output of `sparklines 6 15 7 5 2 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1`.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by oldandboring »

Spivak wrote: post #101
oldandboring wrote: post #41

I use the 'Containerise' plugin along with the following configuration (which I am constantly tweaking) to keep the big tech companies isolated from each other and the rest of the web. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/ I'm also increasingly using it to keep their various properties isolated from each other (eg. keeping Bing separate from the rest of Microsoft) to reduce tracking even furthe…

This add-on has the same problem as Temporary containers. If you want to isolate Facebook and click a link to Spotify it will open Spotify in the Facebook container :( So far only the Google/FB container add-ons do this right.

Right-click the link and click "Open in new container tab > " and click the container you want.
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