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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by hawski »

lucasverra wrote: post #383
dngray wrote: post #313

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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 ?

Private tab? Do you mean private window? Or is there some other feature/extension?

The temporary containers extension is creating a temporary container with each newly opened tab. It uses same container for tabs opened from existing tabs.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by utucuro »

mook wrote: post #162
jedberg wrote: post #136

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What does Containerize gain you over Multi-account containers? Is the pattern matching more robust?

(I also use Containerise) In my experience that had better support for per-eTLD temporary containers, so that each site can have its own, and the data can be discarded relatively soon. I also have more permanent containers for things that I want to be able to persist (e.g. work uses SSO so I need to link multiple sites together to log in). When I used it I found the management in Multi-Account Containers to be onerou…

This is going to take care of my biggest gripe with Multi-Account Containers; it leaks cookies to the default container if you open the site management list because it looks up favicons each time. I just tested Containerise and multi-container cookie jars, it does not leak cookies with this. Finally, painless container management!

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by raverbashing »

kbenson wrote: post #377
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…

Container proxy plus a putty socks tunnel over SSH through a pinhole firewall rules to my work linux system is my preferred poor man's work VPN. One main benefit being that allowing the non-VPN traffic to handle the video meeting works way better.

I'd even debate if it's really a "poor man's" VPN, I think it's actually a better solution

Traditional VPN solutions seem overengineered and complicated. Wireguard is better though

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by y7 »

lucasverra wrote: post #383
dngray wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ?

All tabs opened in private windows share the same "container", which gets cleared once you close the last private tab. With temporary containers, all your tabs are in independent containers.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by ratonroy »

GCA10 1 day ago [–]

I like Graham's points about overconfidence, peer groups and (judicious amounts of) ignorance, all of which he champions quite strongly. But drilling deeper on "rate of change" is an undervalued element that deserves a closer look. The best innovators are really good at taking Version 1.0 and figuring out what rework will turn it into a better 2.0, and then 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, etc. This is an identifiable skill! It can be cultivated. Once you've got it, the failings of Version 1.0 do not ruin your self-esteem. You just get to work on fixing them. And not enough people think about this systematically.

One of my favorite museum stops of all time was the British Library, where a glass case held Paul McCartney's first draft of "Yesterday." You could see, cross-out by cross-out, how a somewhat awkward ballad got turned into a pop classic.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by utucuro »

nunez wrote: post #130
sleavey wrote: post #128

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Does this work with Firefox Sync? I'd love to have different bookmarks/cookies/accounts/etc. for work and home but use the same sync account - sometimes I work from home and want to use my work profile, but also don't want my home bookmarks showing up when I share my screen at work.

MAC works with Firefox Sync, yes.

Only partially; Containers get synced, but site to container assignments do not get synced.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by seszett »

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…

I just discovered Mullvad (just a VPN provider) and for some reason, they don't have "English" in the list of languages available for their site.

So they redirected me to the Dutch version because I'm in a nominally Dutch-speaking region, and I had no option to get it in English. I had to go with half-translated French until I noticed that I could replace the "fr" in the URL with "en", and actually get to an English-language website.

The region-based redirection was annoying enough, and the half-assed translation job was expected, but not even providing an easy way to get back to English is really idiotic.

I still wish I had some kind of system that would automatically use a connection in the right country for geoblocked content. For now I just use SSH proxies to (my own) strategically located servers combined with Firefox Containers and Container Proxies, but it's all manual.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by SturgeonsLaw »

ww520 wrote: post #230
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…

Tooting my own horn :). Session Boss [1] saves the container information as part of the session and can restore the tabs in their respective containers. I use it to maintain multiple Gmail accounts and other email accounts in different containers. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-boss/

That looks like a useful extension, just installed it. Good for those times I want to Undo Close Tab for something 10 tabs ago

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by [deleted] »

pkulak wrote: post #66
oldandboring wrote: post #41

I use the 'Containerise' plugin along with the following configuration (which I am constantly tweaking) to keep the big tech companies isolated from each other and the rest of the web. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/ I'm also increasingly using it to keep their various properties isolated from each other (eg. keeping Bing separate from the rest of Microsoft) to reduce tracking even furthe…

Oh wow. I used containers for a while, but the official plugin for managing them was awful. You had to go to the site, set the container, then click an approve button the _next_ time you went to it. Took forever to get things set up, and it never synced the settings despite claiming it would. I'm going to give this one a try. Thanks!

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