I 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.
www.google.com seems like the obvious answer.
Facebook Container for Firefox
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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#252I'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've literally never had someone say Safari is better. Chromium, sure...but Safari? It's like the IE of the browser world these days.
Here you go: Safari is a great browser for users.
The only thing that kept me away all of these years is the lack of extensions and because I’m used to Chrome’s developer tools.
Firefox is the worst browser in literally every way except for the containers. Everything else feels hacked on compared to other browsers. Just compare Firefox’ reader mode to Safari. It’s night and day. Firefox’ feels hacked on.
As a developer I hate Safari, but as a user it’s everything a browser should be. With Translations coming in Big Sur it doesn’t have much to envy Chrome.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Some websites basically crash the computer What does "crash the computer" mean? Do you get the MacOS equivalent of a BSOD?
Everything freezes, I can't use move the mouse. If I wait, sometimes I can hit Cmd-W and get the tab to close eventually, sometimes I literally have to do a hard power off.
I haven't experienced this on my 2020 macbook nor my 2012 macbook. Care to link an example of some heavy javascript?
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Some websites basically crash the computer What does "crash the computer" mean? Do you get the MacOS equivalent of a BSOD?
Disclaimer: Firefox is my daily driver. There are sites that just make FF spike its CPU usage, I guess through rogue JS, and if you let them run they’ll make macOS stutter (this on a beefy 2016 mbp). Sadly, some of these are big names like new Reddit and new Facebook.
Are you running any adblockers? I haven't experienced this personally on newer and older mac hardware than your rig.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#255I'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 haven't noticed a significant difference between safari and firefox in terms of performance, personally. I never had the browser feel like it's hung up or crash, honestly I don't think I've had a frozen browser window in years. Maybe it's because I run ublock origin and cut the pollution, though.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#256I 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.
This plus the inherent back button hijacking when you click a link that throws you into another container (which works by opening the link in the new container tab, changing to it, and closing the original tab), led me to just stick with facebook containers and sacrifice the privacy offered by multi account containers for some convenience.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> The best way to hide your fingerprint is to be as similar to everyone as possible. Ironically, this also means you should not enable your browser's "Do not track" preference.
I don't think it matters, roughly half of browsers have it on and half have it off. The most important thing is to not change it from its default since thats the real marker trackers can use.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#258Do 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.
Yes since version 6.2 from February: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#259I'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…
maybe someone needs to make a spoofer extention of a factory fresh laptop
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#260Why stop at just Facebook? What about Google, Doubleclick, Disqus, Google Analytics, Twitter and all the others that have embedded widgets all over the web?