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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was pretty "meh" on containers until I put in a bit of effort to set them up. Flagging certain domains to always open in a specific tab category took a bit to work through on the common sites I visit, but now that its all set up I think its great.

Is it better than uBO? If so, how?

You can use both. They each solve a set of problems that only overlap partially.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#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%.

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[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-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

[3] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contain-reddi...

[4] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=Container

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#24
post #17

I love this Facebook container. Love to see the Facebook container mark also on other websites trying to track me. I also use the Firefox multi-account containers to set a temporary container for every new tab. To not lose logins etc I'm websites I visit frequently, I set up dedicated containers for those. Work very well. Anyone else with experience of the Firefox multi-account container extension?

Was just coming back to this thread to say I use the Multi-Account Containers extension to isolate my Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Google Search sessions from the rest of my web browsing, and I highly recommend it.

The terminology is a little confusing: Containers or "Container Tabs" is a session-management tool that's baked into Firefox, while Multi-Account Containers is an extension on top of that that allows you to automatically sort specific domains into containers, so when I open e.g. a YouTube link it automatically appears in a YouTube container, which knows nothing about my Google account. IMO the functionality of the extension (which was written by Mozilla) should be added to the browser itself.

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

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#25

Looking forward to a Google Container

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... You're welcome.

The reason Facebook Container exists is because the UX of the generic version is awful. Trying to created a new container to always open a site with has something like half a dozen steps.

And of course we won't get a dedicated 'Google Container' from Mozilla because despite all their hot talk they know what side their bread is buttered on.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#26

Looking forward to a Google Container

Mozilla gets too much Google money to do that. I've asked for them to do a first party extension for this, and they have "no plans" to do so.

Unfortunately, I don't trust a third party extension with this either.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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post #22

Anyone know if there's an integration with Tree Style Tabs[0]? They're a gamechanger for browsing the web, and it'd be nice to see what tabs are contained. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Itll show a color next to the tab to indicate that its in a container

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#29
I already do this manually using Profiles/People in Chrome. Containers look much better and more seamless though.

I wonder, does this fix the Google reCAPTCHA problem with using multiple browser profiles?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#30
What’s the way to set this up for custom domains? I basically only want to be logged into my mail, Facebook HN and twitch (and they don’t need to share tracking cookies) and have everything else happen in a no-cookies stored environment.

But do I need a container extension for each of those sites or what is the deal here? And do I exit the container when I click a link to another domain?

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