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Post by rsync »

smichel17 wrote: post #276
Mandatum wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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).

"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)."

This is my every-six-months wish/rant on this subject ...

What we need is the ability to 'jail' a GUI browser process.

It is too resource intensive to spin up an actual virtual machine to run a browser window/tab. However, a facility like 'jail' (or zones or, perhaps even Docker) that simply chroots a new process with its own network interface, etc., does not have any of that expense.

It really is just a fancy chroot and the expense is limited to the overhead of just the process you're running.

If you could 'jail' a GUI application, you could have a browser window that was not merely its own cookie domain or history domain, but that was on an entirely different network and it's own chroot.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by daveFNbuck »

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.

I was asking about Chrome profiles, not Firefox containers. I use dozens of Firefox containers already, and it's my understanding that Chrome profiles aren't a good substitute because you can only use one at a time.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by CartenLoor »

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…

Could you provide some more information about the local bridge proxy? I'm trying to implement something similar but don't know where to start.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by falcolas »

phatbyte wrote: post #417

While I appreciate this kind of solutions, in my brain all I can think is: what the hell is wrong with the web today? I mean, what did we do to ourselves? How the hell did we ruin the web experience this much? Looking back in the 90s, the web wasn't the most pretty thing but how simple it was. You went to a news website and that was it. Click, read, the end. These days however: - Go to a news/content website - wait f…

It's the consequence of decades worth of monetization of as much of the internet as possible, fighting against ad saturation/blocking by the users.

Additionally, web browsers were never built for easy monetization of web content; being under the control of the end user.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by infinityplus1 »

kelnos wrote: post #149
BadOakOx wrote: post #143

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I don't know how effective it is, but Firefox has some basic protection (and an experimental one): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...

The thing that's annoying about this is that some sites trust the browser's report of your timezone and don't let you change it. When I tried enabling this, Slack, despite having timezone settings in the preferences dialog, showed me message timestamps in UTC, and there was no way to change it.

Thanks to this, I have gotten used to my time being in UTC. I even changed my system timezone to UTC.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by WorldMaker »

utucuro wrote: post #388
aggronn wrote: post #96

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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.

Or a shortcut with `firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager` to always launch the profile dialog on bootup just like it is 90s Netscape all over again.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by AnonC »

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/

The add-on page for this says it was last updated in June 2019. Just wanted to check if it's still compatible and has no issues with all the changes in Firefox for more than a year now.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by kbenson »

ComodoHacker wrote: post #380
kbenson wrote: post #378

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Ctrl-shift-n will reopen a closed window (with all the tabs it had) just like ctrl-shift-n will reopen a closed tab. Try it a few times after closing multiple firefox windows with multiple tabs each if they don't come up automatically on start.

You mean "ctrl-shift-T will reopen a closed tab".

Yes, my mistake. That's pretty obvious in context what I meant to someone that already knew it, but that doesn't help those that didn't know about that feature, so thanks. :)

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by dirtnugget »

basch wrote: post #418
dirtnugget wrote: post #165

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It feels like multi-user management with google is a feature which was not really considered from the start and never become important enough to refactor the whole thing.

Do they need to refactor much though? I would they could fix it in Chrome, and accomplish basically the same thing.

I have no idea how the product is structured, but I do know that many other services have a similar issue.

Heck, we’re using outlook at one of my customers and I can’t even open a second tab in 2020. It will just block the UI telling me there is another tab open.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by aarchi »

The feature that has kept me from switching to Firefox is history archiving. I like to keep a record of my browsing history using Chromium's “History Trends Unlimited” extension to easily find articles previously read. However, Firefox appears to only record the most recent site access date and there's no similar extension. Does anyone know of an alternative?
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