Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Facebook Container for Firefox

mozilla.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 406 posts

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#31

Post by narag »

We're going from cold war to all-in.

Not just a privacy question. Reddit nags me every time I hit the front page, even returning from a story, asking me to log in. For most sites I need to create ublock filters to prevent pop-ups with useless "we use cookies", subscription requests, ads or social media bars that fills half the screen, etc. etc. etc.

Every newspaper I read has decided that autostarting video and streaming is a good idea.

Yes, HN is OK, but sites that it points to are not.

I'm giving up on the web.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#32

Post by asdsa5325 »

justinzollars wrote: post #29
asdsa5325 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use containers for any website / group of webistes. The specific Facebook-only container extension is for people who don't want to hassle of organizing their containers themselves and only want one for Facebook.

Do you have any more information on how to do this? A link? I'm interested in isolating google.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#33

Post by kfrzcode »

narag wrote: post #31

We're going from cold war to all-in. Not just a privacy question. Reddit nags me every time I hit the front page, even returning from a story, asking me to log in. For most sites I need to create ublock filters to prevent pop-ups with useless "we use cookies", subscription requests, ads or social media bars that fills half the screen, etc. etc. etc. Every newspaper I read has decided that autostarting video and strea…

> I'm giving up on the web

They said, while posting on a web forum

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#34

Post by asdsa5325 »

gowld wrote: post #28
asdsa5325 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use containers for any website / group of webistes. The specific Facebook-only container extension is for people who don't want to hassle of organizing their containers themselves and only want one for Facebook.

Hey why is Firefox giving Facebook preferential treatment?

Have you read the news lately? Facebook has been a special concern as of late...

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#35

Post by jackgolding »

narag wrote: post #31

We're going from cold war to all-in. Not just a privacy question. Reddit nags me every time I hit the front page, even returning from a story, asking me to log in. For most sites I need to create ublock filters to prevent pop-ups with useless "we use cookies", subscription requests, ads or social media bars that fills half the screen, etc. etc. etc. Every newspaper I read has decided that autostarting video and strea…

When you mentioned reddit I thought you were talking about their "install the app" pop up. They have by far the worst mobile experience out of any site I've use more than once in the last 2 years.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#36

Post by lucb1e »

gowld wrote: post #28
asdsa5325 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use containers for any website / group of webistes. The specific Facebook-only container extension is for people who don't want to hassle of organizing their containers themselves and only want one for Facebook.

Hey why is Firefox giving Facebook preferential treatment?

Preferential? Other than publicity, I'd say it's the opposite. Though I see your point.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#37

Post by 6ak74rfy »

07d046 wrote: post #27

I used Firefox's containers for about a day, and then I discovered the privacy.firstparty.isolate option (in about:config), which effectively gives every site its own container with no user effort. That, combined with Cookie AutoDelete, seems to work well.

nice, I wish there were a dedicated checkbox for this in the settings page. I didn't know about this until now.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#38

Post by ytch »

gowld wrote: post #28
asdsa5325 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use containers for any website / group of webistes. The specific Facebook-only container extension is for people who don't want to hassle of organizing their containers themselves and only want one for Facebook.

Hey why is Firefox giving Facebook preferential treatment?

Because facebook gives preferential treatment to us?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#39

Post by Benjamin_Dobell »

jackgolding wrote: post #35
narag wrote: post #31

We're going from cold war to all-in. Not just a privacy question. Reddit nags me every time I hit the front page, even returning from a story, asking me to log in. For most sites I need to create ublock filters to prevent pop-ups with useless "we use cookies", subscription requests, ads or social media bars that fills half the screen, etc. etc. etc. Every newspaper I read has decided that autostarting video and strea…

When you mentioned reddit I thought you were talking about their "install the app" pop up. They have by far the worst mobile experience out of any site I've use more than once in the last 2 years.

LinkedIn are ever so slightly worse. But it's tight.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#40

Post by pessimizer »

gowld wrote: post #28
asdsa5325 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use containers for any website / group of webistes. The specific Facebook-only container extension is for people who don't want to hassle of organizing their containers themselves and only want one for Facebook.

Hey why is Firefox giving Facebook preferential treatment?

Still shedding users and they need something to press release.
Post reply on HN