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

381–390 of 446 posts

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#381

Post by Mandatum »

bogomipz wrote: post #353
hannibalhorn wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

This'll help you: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dd-wrt-routers-and-mullvad-vpn/

For Geo-IP, unfortunately unless you have some sort of automation to reconfigure the OpenVPN settings on your router - this will only work with 1 configuration. They may be alluding to using the VPN to connect to another country where they're not getting weird as fuck redirects and shit content.

Although just as I wrote that, I'm expecting a dd-wrt/browser addon will probably support this somewhere - or at least as a script on Linux.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#382

Post by jannes »

nicholascamera wrote: post #107
JadoJodo wrote: post #23

A few others: - Temporary Containers[0] - Google Container[1] - Google Container w/ Integrations (YouTube, AdTech, Apps, etc)[2] - Reddit Container[3] There are a few others[4] as well, but I've found the Temporary Containers solves the 80%. -- [0] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... [1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai... [2] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en…

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…

You can reset your sync data for any extension in Firefox.

Just go to about:debugging, click on "This Firefox", locate the extension and click the "Inspect" button. In the case of MAC this should lead you to about:devtools-toolbox?type=extension&id=%40testpilot-containers

In the devtools that open you need to go to the Console tab and run this command:

  await browser.storage.sync.clear()
If you want to see the data before you delete it, you can show it with this command:

  await browser.storage.sync.get()

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#383

Post by lucasverra »

dngray wrote: post #313
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 really like "Temporary Containers" https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/temporary-container... which is a really useful privacy-enhancing usage of the containers API. https://medium.com/@stoically/enhance-your-privacy-in-firefo...

isn't this the same as a private tab ?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#384

Post by NiceWayToDoIT »

one2know wrote: post #189

How does this stop facebook from tracking you? I'm fairly certain that on facebook, google, everyone, etc tracking is largely through processing request logs to gstatic.com or fbcdn.net for example with a referrer header saying what site you are visiting, your source IP and various other things to fingerprint the request.

I have the same question and I agree. Combination of IP, timestamp, fonts, user-agent, screen-size ... can identify you so only advantage I see is that if you have multiple accounts you could log to all of them. Correct?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#385

Post by [deleted] »

aggronn wrote: post #96
Fats wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm also doing this in chrome. I have about 5 different profiles, aliased to things like `chrome-work`, `chrome-personal`, `chrome-dev', etc. I would love to use FF, but iirc FF doesn't provide something like `firefox --profile=someIdentifier` that opens a new window in my desired profile. edit: Apparently this is bad info. I'll have to give it a try again.

[deleted]

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#386

Post by lucasverra »

pseudalopex wrote: post #375
livscholes wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Welcome to HN. Is this you?[1] You should disclose your job is promoting the company you mentioned if it is. I hope it isn't or you just forgot. Astroturfing erodes trust between people and makes the world worse. [1] https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/author/olivia-scholes

Good catch !

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#387

Post by almog »

I have a use case where I'm using 6 different amazon accounts which I'd have loved to use with containers controlled by bookmarks (I use Firefox keyword bookmarks a lot for productivity).

The best out of the box way you could do it with Firefox is to setup different profiles and switch between them, however, while there is a many-to-many relationship between website and containers, there is none between bookmarks and containers, thus you'd have to manually switch to the right container.

My workaround for this was to setup a thin server that redirects amazon.localhost to amazon.com. Then, on Firefox, I bind each amazon(1-6).localhost to its own container and configure it to always open this site in its container. Now every time I type "amazon2" it will open up amazon.com in its right container.

Would have wished to have bookmarks granularity as part of Firefox, but for my use case, this is the best I could come up with in few minutes of work.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#388

Post by utucuro »

aggronn wrote: post #96
Fats wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm also doing this in chrome. I have about 5 different profiles, aliased to things like `chrome-work`, `chrome-personal`, `chrome-dev', etc. I would love to use FF, but iirc FF doesn't provide something like `firefox --profile=someIdentifier` that opens a new window in my desired profile. edit: Apparently this is bad info. I'll have to give it a try again.

If you're already in FF, consider using about:profiles as well, the old profile manager GUI was integrated into the browser itself a while ago.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#389

Post by beardog »

hannibalhorn wrote: post #278
smichel17 wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Though you won't get stream isolation this way https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Stream_Isolation

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

#390

Post by gaff33 »

npteljes wrote: post #215
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 also love Temporary Containers, so each of my tabs can be a fresh sheet. Also cookies and much else gets purged after I close them.

I've been wondering if such an extension exists! Thanks for telling me about it.
Post reply on HN