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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by livscholes »

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…

Didn't know you could do this with Firefox. Thanks for the tip! Curious — have you ever heard of Shift (tryshift.com)? It pretty much does the same thing, but with everything (Gmail, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, etc.). I use it at work so that I don't have to sign in and out of all my Google accounts. It's pretty unreal.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by moritonal »

leecb wrote: post #182
moritonal wrote: post #58

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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...

We actually discussed this for quite a while at work when I pushed us to start contributing to open-source. Mostly it came down to the fact that TfL wished me to keep my work-life and personal-life separate to keep things simple. Reading that back, it doesn't sound so crazy.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Farow »

blibble wrote: post #244
rozab wrote: post #170

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Profiles definitely have the basic functionality, but I like to keep all my extensions the same across my containers, and it's also easy to set up rules such that a certain site will always open in a certain container. You don't have to think about it at all.

excluding extensions is the exact reason I use profiles (I don't want any with access to my banking) I use containers liberally also

You can open a private window when doing your banking, extensions aren't allowed there by default.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by neogodless »

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…

I'm confused. Containers work by URL. How do you use a different container per Google account?

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Post by smichel17 »

Mandatum wrote: post #191
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…

Also adding to this - you can set up container-specific proxies with "Container proxy" addon. This is great for when you want to ensure your connection is going over a private network, for instance if you have a regular torrent website (or porn or whatever) - you can configure it to automatically open in a container, like this Facebook addon - but when it opens - it will only connect to the endpoint over a proxy. If…

Anyone in the know: what would it take to implement a "container over tor"? I am not currently a tor user, but absolutely would if I could integrate it with my current workflow (using the temporary containers addon).

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by discordance »

neogodless wrote: post #275
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…

I'm confused. Containers work by URL. How do you use a different container per Google account?

Firefox containers isolate all cookies, site associated credentials and cached content

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by hannibalhorn »

smichel17 wrote: post #276
Mandatum wrote: post #191

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Also adding to this - you can set up container-specific proxies with "Container proxy" addon. This is great for when you want to ensure your connection is going over a private network, for instance if you have a regular torrent website (or porn or whatever) - you can configure it to automatically open in a container, like this Facebook addon - but when it opens - it will only connect to the endpoint over a proxy. If…

Anyone in the know: what would it take to implement a "container over tor"? I am not currently a tor user, but absolutely would if I could integrate it with my current workflow (using the temporary containers addon).

tor provides a socks proxy, which you can assign to a container easy enough w/ the container proxy addon.

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Post by toyg »

asdff wrote: post #254
toyg wrote: post #227

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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.

Yes - uBlock Origin and Disconnect.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by neogodless »

discordance wrote: post #277
neogodless wrote: post #275

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I'm confused. Containers work by URL. How do you use a different container per Google account?

Firefox containers isolate all cookies, site associated credentials and cached content

Right I guess I mean you can't isolate all Google sites to one container but also split your Google accounts across multiple containers.
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