If you enable the First-Party Isolation preference in about:config then this is more effective site isolation and is automatic for all sites.
Facebook Container for Firefox
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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#52I'm loving Firefox Containers for various use cases, but is running Google/Facebook in them worth the extra hassle if you use uBO/Privacy Badger? It blocks all that stuff anyway.
You might be able to escape facebook using ublock, but you're going to have trouble escaping google. It's everywhere : youtube embeds, google cdn (for scripts/fonts), google maps embeds/autocomplete, recaptcha.
Do these embeds matter if you block 3rd party cookies and don't click on the embedded content?
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#53If they have this ability, why doesn't every website get its own 'container tab'?
By default? It can break a lot things that people expect to work and can make browsing the web slightly more annoying (harder recapcthas etc). You can enable first-party site isolation in your Firefox preferences which will effectively provider a container for each site (as far as I understand). But it's pretty annoying at times.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#54Other than convenience, what, if anything, do containers have over doing what I do - always opening a private window/incognito in Chrome, go to facebook and log in?
Primarily, it's not 'other than convenience', because that's huge.
But to actually answer: you can remember cookies etc., they're just only accessible within that container silo, versus private/incognito windows where they're deleted (by design) when you close that tab.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#55A 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…
Worth pointing out that while they're probably safe (and do in fact use the same container APIs to separate out the domains), these are all from third-party developers. Where as the Facebook container is from Mozilla directly.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#56Other than convenience, what, if anything, do containers have over doing what I do - always opening a private window/incognito in Chrome, go to facebook and log in?
You can only open one private session, you can have as many containers as you want. With the caveat that you can probably spawn multiple chrome sessions each with a different profile, but then each session will have it's own bespoke config and (lack of) extensions.
I dearly wish that I was able to purge cookies/local storage on a per-container basis.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm finding more and more that i want to move to a Chrome fork (Brave) but TreeStyleTabs (Sidebery) keeps me with FF.
Is it possible to publish extension to Brave without Google authorizing it? As an extension builder I tried in the past and didn't manage to do that.
No, Brave still uses the Chrome Web Store.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#58I 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 use it to split my work and my personal GitHub accounts!
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
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As in, it doesn't block most stuff automatically. You need to pick them using the element picker manually. And even that doesn't stick all the time.
Are you talking about stuff on the Facebook website ? I'm talking about blocking Facebook tracking on other sites.
I was talking about on the facebook website.
Re: Facebook Container for Firefox
#60I already do this manually using Profiles/People in Chrome. Containers look much better and more seamless though. I wonder, does this fix the Google reCAPTCHA problem with using multiple browser profiles?
Yeah, I've tried to do the multi-profile thing in Chrome and always ended up giving up in disgust after a while because the UX is hard to deal with. Lately I've just been using different browsers for different "profiles" (social media, work, general internet browsing, etc) with. Between Safari, Chrome, Chrome Canary, FF, FF Nightly you can have a lot of different "profiles" and using something like https://www.choosyosx.com the day-to-day UX is not bad.