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I tried to like this the other day but it was a real hassle. I have 3 accounts on a website. I thought I could setup 3 different containers, one for each account. But it turns out that switching between containers is not simple. Whenever I tried to switch, I got a pop up from Firefox asking me if I was really sure I wanted to switch my default container for that website. Sometimes it sent me into a redirect loop with…
Ugh, same. I thought I was the only one that found these to be impossibly buggy. The container setup/management UI is glitchy and it often forgets! containers that were created. It feels like a hack week project that got shipped to production. Despite having containers, Firefox sometimes wants to open the managed website in your current window. Or doesn't ask you at all when you have multiple containers for the same…
Because syncing is a separate step - yet it still happens concurrently/unpredictably in the background - there is no avoiding the default new user flow that creates 4 default containers at install.
Experience is still lacking compared to Chrome profiles. Chrome profiles are so much better UX wise than any other solution, especially the color coding of the window.
We use different AWS accounts for different purposes at work. It would be an extreme productivity loss if I had to go back to using something other than Firefox's containers.
The Arc browser [1] could be nice alternative as it handles profiles pretty smooth. [1]: https://arc.net/
I've been using this since it was new. I'm very frustrated to say the UI/UX hasn't seen any significant update. Containers are still synced separately, so any fresh install of Firefox will have the tutorial UX and the default 4 containers, even after syncing. Also, address bar completion is still monolithic, making it very easy to accidentally open a site in an undesired container. That can be worked around by adding…
I've been using this for a few years now and love it. I wish for two things. 1) i wish there was a way to automatically delete cookies/cache/history from specific containers every time. My personal container needs cookies and logins saved. My other containers don't need persistent cookies. 2) I've always wished for protonvpn to apply to only specific containers. Reading this now though, I see firefox's VPN does that…
What you want is the Temporary Containers addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-con... It will let you open containers that trash cookies on close. You can also set certain URL's to always open in a tmp container which is useful for sites that only let you read x amount of article per month.
