Do the containers and their settings sync across devices as part of Firefox Sync? Last time I tried them, I had to recreate them on each device.
Facebook Container for Firefox
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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#232I 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?
Multi-container will break any SSO experience that depends on cookies, where the sso domain (abc.sso.com) is not pinned to a container, and the destination domain (abc.com) is pinned to a container, due to the correct behavior of not allowing cookies to be copied into the container when the SSO chain of requests traverses from abc.sso.com -> abc.com.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#233I'm loving Firefox Containers for various use cases, but is running Google/Facebook in them worth the extra hassle if you use uBO/Privacy Badger? It blocks all that stuff anyway.
uBO/PB make you much easier to fingerprint uniquely due to not loading advertising content on all web requests, which could be considered harmful in a scenario where you don't want to be tracked. Facebook Containers extension offers the same fingerprint as "doesn't have a Facebook account and uses a browser that blocks tracking by default" outside of the container, which is far less unique these days than it used to be.
Note that this doesn't diminish the effectiveness of uBO/PB at blocking requests — but I think most of their users don't realize how much easier it is to identify who uBO/PB users are, relative to the rest of the world on less obvious setups.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#234I absolutely love the containers feature in general, and the Facebook one in particular. One severe use case limitation (for me) involves using containers to separate work/home accounts. I am a developer, so I do a lot of screen sharing / presenting. Theoretically, I could use Firefox containers to separate things into "work" and "personal." However, all containers have a shared autocomplete history for the URL bar.…
To be fair, both Girls and Git have the concept of commitment. And I've got an extensive .girlsignore file. But under no circumstances should a push be tried on the former, especially if a gentle pull does not succeed.
don't quit your day job ;)
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use it to split my work and my personal GitHub accounts!
> GitHub recommends using only one user account to manage both personal and professional repositories. https://github.community/t/using-one-account-for-all-your-pr...
Where I'm contracting now didn't want my account added to their org because it's not a profile picture of me. As the public facing stuff of the account is my personal stuff, I don't want someone else to tell me how it should be. So a new account for this customer it is..
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#236Tools like this are useful for those suffering from Facebook Stockholm syndrome.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#237Why stop at just Facebook? What about Google, Doubleclick, Disqus, Google Analytics, Twitter and all the others that have embedded widgets all over the web?
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#238I am hard pressed to think of any other website in the 25 year history of the WWW that was so abusive of its users that web browsers had to start inventing features to protect user from it.
When you're the only drug dealer in town, you can treat your customers however you want. They'll keep coming back.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
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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 means when using git from the command line. Trying to push to your repo will trigger a github sign in process, which will then save the credentials to Windows Credential Manager. Git will then ALWAYS use those from that point on credentials unless you go into the manager and delete them, which is a massive pain if you use multiple github accounts.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
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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…
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…
Here is the issue if you are interested. It's still not closed:
https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/371