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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by gnicholas »

lillecarl wrote: post #3
cooljacob204 wrote: post #2

I'm finding more and more that it might finally be time to switch back to Firefox. Is Google still planning to destroy adblock with Manifest V3?

I'm finding more and more that i want to move to a Chrome fork (Brave) but TreeStyleTabs (Sidebery) keeps me with FF.

I love Brave and use the Sidewise extension to mimic TST. [1]

It isn't perfect though. My main issues are that it's a separate window so sometimes clicking on the side window or the main window draws focus instead of clicking the thing under my cursor. Also the search bar in the sidebar keeps getting accidentally activated when I hit command-T. So I ended up inspecting and deleting the element. It's not the most elegant solution, but it works well enough.

I've tried FF a couple times a year ever since Quantum came out, but on my MBP it's just much slower than Brave.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewise-tree-styl...

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by drdaeman »

rozab wrote: post #170
Fats wrote: post #78

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What I've been doing was to set up a browser profile (local) for each main context. If I have a set of work accounts (google, github, etc.), I have a 'work' profile for it. This isolates all cookies related to 'work' at once, as well as bookmarks, saved tabs, extensions, and settings. It's a total context switcher.

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.

I want my extensions to share the base configuration but have some different settings in different contexts.

Like, allow some tracking & advertising for "shopping" container, but block it otherwise. I don't mind having a special self-curated image where my in-scope browsing is tracked and analyzed. Now, I just have a separate browser (Chrome) for this - because it's more straightforward and less error-prone.

Or a sandbox development & local resource management profile where nothing but localhost and LAN addresses are allowed. And then block such access for any other profile - for security reasons.

Or allow, let's say, Grammarly extension on a few selected websites (like HN), where all I write is public and I would benefit from machines aiding my writing without any privacy concerts, but don't give it any chance to see my private correspondence.

Unfortunately, that's not possible with containers, and profiles are quite cumbersome.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by bogomipz »

hannibalhorn wrote: post #264
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…

I use the same setup (mullvad + container proxy) and can't praise it enough. I just keep a mullvad connection open on my router and only route the proxy IPs through it. Great for all kinds of silly GeoIP restrictions, too - in my part of the world, homedepot.com just spits out "access denied", a foodnetwork.com recipe you find in search results just redirects you to the tudiscovery.com homepage, etc.

>"I just keep a mullvad connection open on my router and only route the proxy IPs through it.'

I'm interested in your setup. Do you configure your router to have a point to point tunnel with Mullvad then? I didn't know this was a thing. Do you then just have a separate container proxy for each GeoIP region you want to access?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by abrookewood »

turdnagel wrote: post #339
jethro_tell wrote: post #338

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I log into roughly 20 AWS accounts/day. Container tabs make that work. I can compare things side by side or just work on two tasks at once.

Holy moly, why 20 accounts?

It's not that unusual to use separate AWS accounts as blast-barriers. I.e. they contain the damage that might occur due to a leak etc. I typically use 2 (prod & non-prod) for each major product/offering, plus a centralised one to manage policies, billing etc for all the sub accounts. They add up pretty quickly.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by LilBytes »

turdnagel wrote: post #339
jethro_tell wrote: post #338

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I log into roughly 20 AWS accounts/day. Container tabs make that work. I can compare things side by side or just work on two tasks at once.

Holy moly, why 20 accounts?

My employer has accounts in the hundreds...

Similar to OP you're replying to, I use Firefox Containers to open separate accounts to open independent windows from my Identity Provider when I need to be in more than one account at a time.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by dheera »

blackearl wrote: post #312
daveFNbuck wrote: post #307

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Can you have dozens of different profiles open at the same time in different tabs of the same window?

Yes, I use it at home but also a lot at work. Opening personal account and admin accounts in a bunch of different tabs for a bunch of different sites. Makes it super easy, no need to log in and out throughout the day. I have users that also will have our O365/Okta accounts as well as client O365/Okta accounts. Containers make it a cinch to keep everything separate and logged in at the same time.

It seems that one could also run multiple instances of Chrome or Chromium inside docker containers with X11 forwarding.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by dheera »

turdnagel wrote: post #339
jethro_tell wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I log into roughly 20 AWS accounts/day. Container tabs make that work. I can compare things side by side or just work on two tasks at once.

Holy moly, why 20 accounts?

AWS credits? You can get a bunch of free credits for each account, and then build an abstraction around boto3 to make 20 accounts look like 1 account to you.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by mkj »

laksdjfkasljdf wrote: post #327
welfare wrote: post #126

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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…

How did you validate this research? It is not like companies that do profiling do that in the open, in verifiable manner. Also, weird you mention dvorak. I know this is just a hyperbole for the joke of being an easy to identify linux hacker... but keymap is the one thing you can't use for fingerprinting... well, you are able to use the language (by detecting typed in keycodes and matching against a mimum denominator…

If a person's typing you could probably figure the keymap using timing between keystrokes.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by ekianjo »

> puts people over profit to give everyone more power online.

The elephant in the room is the default Google integration in Firefox, I guess? They don't speak too much about that kind of tracking.

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