[HN Gopher] Firefox Multi-Account Containers
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Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Author : rahuldottech
Score : 298 points
Date : 2020-01-14 17:49 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| lukewrites wrote:
| What are your favorite ways of setting up containers? At home I
| have the following containers, each with separate cookies:
| Banking - all finance related stuff facebook
| twitter amazon - Amazon + AWS + Zappos
| Google - google, gmail, maps
| screaminghawk wrote:
| Personal, Banking, Work Place 1, Work Place 2, Junk (for social
| media) and then a couple others as spares
|
| My key use of this is to manage multiple login sessions to the
| same site. Having a bunch of spare containers lets me do this
| in the same browser window. And I don't have to worry about
| closing them (compared to using private browsing)
| thcz wrote:
| I have a container per domain of sites that I visit regularly.
| Right now I'm at about 40 containera.
| Tomte wrote:
| Pretty much those, plus WhatsApp (distinct from Facebook),
| because I don't use Facebook, except as being tracked across
| the Web, but I'm using WhatsApp Desktop extensively, and wanted
| that separated.
|
| I might add separate containers for separate Twitter accounts,
| because the multiple account UI on Twitter's web site is
| atrocious, IMO. I'm constantly "in the wrong account".
|
| At work I set up a container for all the domains and servers my
| company uses versus everything else.
| jethro_tell wrote:
| I have a container for each of my prod AWS Accounts. I do a lot
| of infra work, so being able to compare different accounts, and
| have them all signed in at once is nice.
| CarelessExpert wrote:
| I have containers for: Banking, Google (and the few places
| where I use Google as my SSO provider), Work, and then a
| general "I'm Signed In" container.
|
| I also use the Temporary Containers extension for added
| privacy, though it's... still pretty rough around the edges,
| particularly when dealing with sites that use SSO (since
| kicking out to an OAuth provider causes a new temporary
| container to be opened, which then messes up the auth flow).
| lukewrites wrote:
| Hadn't heard of Temporary Containers before, I'll have to
| check it out.
| mikece wrote:
| Or if you're a consultant working on mobile apps for different
| clients, having separate containers for each client allows you
| to be in all of the client's Google Play Console at the same
| time in one browser.
|
| (Or in multiple accounts/logins of Twitter, Facebook, Gmail,
| Outlook, etc...)
| jabroni_salad wrote:
| This is my use case also. I have 14 O365/Azure dashes to
| wrangle and this is the only good way to do it.
| ilikepi wrote:
| I combine containers with running multiple copies of Firefox
| under different profiles. I've been using multiple profiles for
| years, and I think it still offers some advantages even with
| container support. The big one is that one instance of the
| browser can crash or be restarted without any impact to the
| others. It also distributes resource consumption over multiple
| independent processes, though I'm sure there's some overhead in
| this approach. Finally, it allows slightly different settings
| for each profile depending on need. I manage common settings
| with a user.js file.
|
| One profile is for logging into various services I regularly
| use, one is dedicated to day-to-day surfing, one is for local
| development (there are no addons in this one), one is
| specifically for webmail, and one is specifically for Trello.
| Containers are most useful with the first two
| profiles...especially the first, so that the various services
| have some level of isolation.
|
| EDIT: details, typos, etc
| rcarmo wrote:
| I love this and use it daily but am sad that they don't sync
| between machines (and the discussion over at
| https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...
| is a bit disenhartening)
| roca wrote:
| Why disheartening? There's a comment from a Mozilla developer
| in December saying they're planning to work on it.
| baggy_trough wrote:
| These are pretty good, but the Chrome implementation is better.
| Specific complaints: - can't tie a bookmark to a container. - too
| many clicks to open a new tab in a container (in Chrome the whole
| window stays tied to the container, not just the tab) - bookmarks
| and history aren't container-scoped.
| baggy_trough wrote:
| Also, it's annoying and a bit scary (for bugs) that this is an
| extension rather than being built into the browser.
| jdlshore wrote:
| It is built into the browser. The extension is just the UI to
| access it.
| dralley wrote:
| It's an extension written by Mozilla that is using APIs built
| into the browser. The extension is just a bit of UI to make
| the feature accessible.
| dralley wrote:
| The use case for containers is totally different from the use
| case for profiles. The whole point of this feature is that you
| can have all of the cookies and persistent storage of a tab or
| set of tabs sandboxed, without affecting your actual browser
| history or bookmarks.
|
| If you want that, use profiles.
|
| >too many clicks to open a new tab in a container
|
| The configuration for this is really simple. There's even
| extensions like "temporary container tab" that will give you a
| fresh container with one click.
| Dig1t wrote:
| I love Firefox Multi-Account containers!
|
| My only complaint (and really this is my biggest gripe with
| Firefox in general) is that there is no support for syncing
| containers using your Firefox account. This means every time I
| set up a new computer I have to reconfigure my containers and for
| each computer I have to re-associate all the sites I have sandbox
| with their own containers. This is such a huge pain.
|
| Other than that, I love it.
| f00_ wrote:
| yes, can't believe it doesn't support syncing
| flurdy wrote:
| I recently started using the multi-account container addon. And I
| love it. Just before I also started using Mozilla's Facebook
| container[1] and it works as intended as well.
|
| I know supercookies and other fingerprinting means I am probably
| being tracked still, but at least I am minimising it without
| going full time incognito.
|
| Previously I was using Profiles to separate personal, work and
| clients, and though about:profiles help switching quicker it was
| still messy, and confusing which profile a link would open in
| etc.
|
| Now I can separate Facebook, Google products and Amazon into
| their own containers. I can keep various client browsing separate
| from my personal, I can keep more suspect websites in its own
| container, finance, infrastructure etc. Love it.
|
| * [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/facebook-
| cont...
| thiagomgd wrote:
| I though they had discontinued it. Are they back at it?
| [deleted]
| sleavey wrote:
| Does it work with Firefox Sync yet? That's the only thing
| stopping me from using containers - I've got multiple machines I
| would need to sync containers between. Last time I checked
| (admittedly a few years ago) it didn't and it seemed unlikely to
| be added any time soon.
| dmachop wrote:
| This was long time ago. It does compartmentalize the browsing
| info but the history is still accessible with other containers.
| For example, a Shopping container should have its own history.
| (https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/4...)
| rozab wrote:
| If I wanted to completely separate things like this I would use
| multiple different profiles. The advantage of the extension is
| that your history, settings, etc remains constant across the
| containers.
| anonymousab wrote:
| Profiles are unfortunately much more cumbersome to use than
| in Chrome.
|
| The UX that container tabs have - being able to use them in
| the same Windows as other tabs, with accessible open-in
| options from the tab bar and from various context menus;
| creating new containers as easily as specifying a name and no
| more - is the UX that I wish Firefox had for their profiles.
| zimaalsu wrote:
| I'd prefer using https://gologinapp.com/ or another antidetect
| browser. It's much more comfortable
| wslh wrote:
| Nostalgic mode: I created a Firefox extension 11 years ago
| enabling users to have cookie containers by a tab (even when the
| Firefox API didn't enable this, it was basically a hack).
| Submitted the extension to the Firefox extend contest but not
| even a mention there. You can check an old video [1]
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pfg-kJ4nAw&fmt=18
| sebazzz wrote:
| Firefox Multi-Account contains are _awesome_ for software
| development and testing! At my work we usually work at tools
| which have three roles: user, reviewer, administrator so I
| generally have three containers for these user accounts. This
| means I can be logged in with all the accounts I need for testing
| in the same web browser without resorting to private mode (which
| does not remember cookies between sessions anyway).
|
| In addition, I use the temporary container add-on[0] which also
| uses containers, but throws them away after being used (like
| reference counting).
|
| These two tools have seriously improved my ability to both
| develop and test applications without the hassle of logging out
| and logging in all the time or needing any tricks when needing
| multiple clean browsing sessions.
|
| [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-
| con...
| captaincole wrote:
| Agreed and seconded. I use them mainly for testing and for
| demo. If I need to switch personas but not have multiple
| private tabs open it is a game changer.
| prions wrote:
| Same! I have three (dev, stg, prd) aws accounts. Without
| containers, I'd need to log in and out to jump between
| s3/emr/etc buckets between environments. With firefox
| containers I can run all three concurrently.
| ssklash wrote:
| Thanks for this tip. It will come in super useful during web
| app penetration tests, being able to have sessions with
| multiple users open at the same time.
| Maximus9000 wrote:
| Wow, thanks for that tip! That's an awesome use case for this
| addon.
| pletnes wrote:
| Seconded. We have several levels of dev/test/production cloud
| services, including backends on cloud providers etc. It's great
| to have one container for each group of services!
| greggyb wrote:
| I have to agree with you on temporary containers. I spend most
| of my time in temporary containers. I trade the annoyance of
| having cookie popups literally every time I visit a page for
| not actually having to worry about the impact of those cookies.
|
| I have it configured such that middle-click opens links in new
| containers, and left-click opens in the current container.
| NoMoreBro wrote:
| For annoying cookies popups you can try this
| https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-
| abou...
| Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote:
| Or just use ublocks existing filters that catch these...
| NoMoreBro wrote:
| The lists for cookies in uBlock Origin never worked for
| me, I don't know why. It was the first thing I activated
| on new uBlock installations, now I don't even care to do
| it.
| leevlad wrote:
| A few more usecases that I've added to my workflow since
| discovering container tabs:
|
| * Work/personal separation
|
| * Multiple AWS accounts
|
| Also, I am very impressed with how well they're integrated into
| Firefox. For example, opening a link in a new tab will preserve
| the container. CMD+Shift+T will restore a recently closed tab
| and remember its original container. I really like the color
| coding too.
| stkdump wrote:
| I think the reason why it is so well integrated is that it
| used to be part of the standard installation of firefox and
| only later moved into an addon.
| markosaric wrote:
| Containers actually still are integrated in the standard
| installation of Firefox and can be used even without an
| addon. You just need to turn them on in about:config:
|
| privacy.userContext.enabled to true
|
| privacy.userContext.ui.enabled to true
|
| privacy.userContext.longPressBehavior to 2
|
| I love using containers with privacy.firstparty.isolate set
| to true too for extra protection.
|
| https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
| gdxhyrd wrote:
| Thanks a lot for this.
|
| I never understand why Mozilla doesn't allow to enable
| this in the settings.
| princevegeta89 wrote:
| This is the answer to nasty crawlers and trackers that are
| planted away by pretty much all sites like Google, Facebook,
| Amazon, Twitter etc. etc.
|
| The simplicity of these Containers really amazes me.
| acdha wrote:
| This a really useful extension for working with multiple cloud
| service accounts (e.g. AWS assumes a global session, GCP
| theoretically supports multiple logins but it's in the usual
| Google NOQA zone where many things break) but there's a really
| important limitation to know about: the container configuration
| isn't synchronized with your account. This means that if anything
| reset your Firefox profile (like that bug they had last year) or
| if you use multiple computers, you'll be spending a lot of time
| duplicating the configuration:
|
| See https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-
| containers/issues/3...
| nvahalik wrote:
| I love MACs.
|
| A couple of caveats, though:
|
| * If you disable Multi-Account Containers at ANY TIME, all of
| your configuration will be gone. So, don't ever disable it. Or
| just be prepared.
|
| * They don't sync with Firefox Sync.
|
| * I use Alfred and in some of my workflows, when I have URLs that
| are designed to always open in a particular container, FF just
| won't open the URL. /shrug
|
| * Always opening URLs depends on the URL. This works great for
| apps which give you account-specific URLs (e.g. Harvest, Jira,
| other services...) but doesn't work at all for stuff like Gmail
| or Drive. I wish there was a way to get FF to ask you how you
| want to open a URL like that.
| srathi wrote:
| Almost useless as it doesn't sync the settings and containers as
| part of Firefox sync. Setting these up on all the devices is a
| pain!
| j0hnM1st wrote:
| well, Since I care about them so much that I am now taking
| backup of the Profile and shipping them across machines ...
| CivBase wrote:
| I really _really_ want support for multiple browser profiles in
| Firefox. Multi-Account Containers are cool, but they don 't allow
| me to change my bookmarks or browser extensions. This is the only
| thing left Chrome has over Firefox that I honestly care about.
|
| The profile manager (about:profiles) comes so close, but it's
| just not as elegant as Chrome. Starting Firefox with the profile
| manager also causes issues when the OS tries to open another
| Firefox instance.
|
| They have a Firefox sync profile badge now. Just give me the
| option in that menu to open a new Firefox instance with another
| profile. And when the OS tries to open a webpage, just use the
| default profile - or even whatever profile I opened a page with
| last.
| Someone1234 wrote:
| Every time this comes up, everyone always dismisses it by just
| pointing to about:profile or the launch flags, but in my
| opinion those are weak excuses.
|
| Chrome made profiles a first class citizen and they're an
| absolute pleasure to use. I literally use them every day.
| Firefox having a bunch of buried half baked UI isn't really an
| answer to that.
|
| I believe Firefox is a better browser overall. Only this
| (profiles), the terrible bookmark/history experience (wtf is
| that?), and the developer bar are the remaining weaknesses.
| fireattack wrote:
| Firefox's bookmark is superior at the core (the most
| important to me is that it supports tags) IMO, but yeah, the
| UI and UX is pretty bad.
| lovebigmacs wrote:
| The entire Library, Bookmarks/History/the archaic Downloads
| popup, all just makes me immensely sad. Meanwhile I keep
| seeing more badges (Pocket, Screenshots, Lockwise, etc) crap
| popping up in the browser UX...
|
| To add on to what you're pointing out -- they even cloned
| Chrome's "profile-icon-in-the-bar" model, but didn't actually
| give you the ability to switch profiles with it! Instead more
| places to shove more links that I forgot about - Firefox
| Monitor and Firefox Send.
| anonymousab wrote:
| The history and bookmark management also has some
| unfortunate performance issues. I'm fairly certain there's
| a memory leak or something as well, as deleting several
| thousand entries at once (say, via 'forget this site' menu
| options) effectively breaks the browser until restart even
| when it has finished the operation.
|
| A comment in the bugzilla for this issue[1] seems to
| suggest that they'd like to rewrite History at the very
| least. So it's on the priority list somewhere.
|
| [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734643
| catalogia wrote:
| "Forget this site" seems to work well for me, but
| selecting thousands of history items manually and then
| pressing the delete key will lock firefox up for tens of
| minutes.
|
| There is definitely something profoundly broken with how
| history is being handled. Probably more than one thing
| that's broken, from the sounds of it.
| jokoon wrote:
| I have been using this for a while now, it's pretty good, but I
| always had trouble separating Gmail and Google search. It's
| necessary to add accounts.google.com and mail.google.com
|
| I think I can't isolate Google search to ours own container.
|
| I'm also using strict setting and cookies are cleared when
| Firefox is closed, and Gmail and accounts domain are white
| listed.
|
| The UI of this addon could be a little better.
| brian_herman__ wrote:
| This has been released a long time ago. The documentation is from
| 2018. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
| skykooler wrote:
| Is there any way to run this on mobile Firefox? I've loved this
| on desktop and installed firefox on my Android tablet but this
| addon shows as "not available".
| jethro_tell wrote:
| I don't think so, I am set up on mobile to use a password safe
| for account login, then I delete all cookies and state on log
| out. So when the browser opens, there's usually nothing in it,
| and then the signing for the site I want to go to is auto
| filled making login pretty simple, then I quit on close.
|
| That's the best I've been able to do so far.
| groovybits wrote:
| It sounds like your workflow could be replaced with Firefox
| Focus: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/focus
|
| Available for Android and iOS.
| skykooler wrote:
| Focus is great, but it doesn't handle the use case of
| having multiple accounts for a site that you don't have to
| sign in each time to use. Otherwise it's basically a fancy
| "private browsing" window.
| dddddaviddddd wrote:
| For privacy, I use first-party isolation. The effect is that all
| domains get their own container. In day-to-day use I haven't seen
| any sites that don't work with it enabled.
|
| https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi.html
| k__ wrote:
| I found it quite confusing. Some sites wouldn't be opened in
| the right container, probably because of some domain
| shenanigans.
|
| Also, it didn't work on mobile.
| dddddaviddddd wrote:
| Are you referring to the multi-container extension? With
| first-party isolation there's no visual indication of
| containers. It seems to work on mobile for me (FF Android
| 68.4.1).
| DavideNL wrote:
| One step further: 'Temporary Containers', it trashes the
| container when you close the tab:
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
|
| Specified sites can still be opened in specific containers, and
| not be trashed.
| jackinloadup wrote:
| I use Temporary Containers all day. Love this addon. This is
| fantastic not only for privacy/security for everyday use but
| also great for testing sites while doing development. It
| becomes really easy to be logged into all the different types
| of users in a website at the same time and see the
| interaction.
| romaaeterna wrote:
| Agreed. I have mine in automatic mode. My default browsing
| experience is that most pages have never seen my computer
| before (at least as far as cookies go), and don't get to
| set anything that will stick around, unless I manually add
| them to a named container.
| [deleted]
| lovebigmacs wrote:
| I would happily donate a thousand dollars towards seeing MAC
| integrated as a first-rate feature. As-is, I have a massive love-
| hate relationship with it.
|
| 1. I'm horrified using Chrome these days. Browsing to a random
| site and having my Google account avatar pop up and offer to log
| me in is really unacceptable. So I fundamentally love what MAC
| provides. (Though some of this is also Firefox's aggressive
| cookie options.)
|
| 2. It's ridiculously buggy. "Reopen in Container Tab" often
| reloads in the exact same container. Trust me, I've checked the
| various bits of configuration that control defaulting certain
| domains to certain containers, there are just times that it does
| the wrong thing.
|
| 3. The config is hard to backup? I gave up last time I tried.
| It's a lot of work to get all of the domains setup to open in
| certain containers, establish the naming/coloring conventions so
| that it's not a mental burden.... and then have to lose it when
| I'm inevitably told that somehow Linux performance will be
| magically better if I make a new profile.
|
| Example usages: multiple "personas". I have a Google Suite
| account and domain for certain things. I don't have issues
| switching between Google accounts because to Google, I'm only
| ever logged into one at a time. Dev/Test purposes.
| msoloviev wrote:
| I made a fork of this that gives you some additional control over
| how links are treated - specifically, you can set it up different
| rules for what container to open a page in depending on what
| container it was opened from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/containers-wi...
|
| The rationale is that you rarely want pages that you open from
| random Facebook posts or Reddit submissions, or pages that you
| arrive at by following more links from those, to have access to
| your Facebook or Reddit login information.
| Krasnol wrote:
| Perfect! This is the functionality I've been looking for. I
| already had a container addon for Amazon and Facebook for this
| which should be unnecessary and with your fork it is.
|
| Thank you.
| akerro wrote:
| Ymm this should be included in the official version. Tried
| making merge request?
| skrowl wrote:
| Conex (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/conex/)
| has an option that allows the user to select container for
| incoming links
| golf1052 wrote:
| This seems really similar to the Facebook container (made by
| Mozilla, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...) and the Google container (a
| fork of the previous, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/google-contai...)
|
| The annoying thing about your extension is that the end-user
| would need to know about and update the domains they want to
| keep isolated. It would be great if all these
| extensions/features were built into the original extension and
| there were updating isolation lists similar to the uBlock
| Origin lists (EasyList, Peter Lowe's list, etc.).
| JaRail wrote:
| I use Temporary Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...) to do this. You can
| customize how you want links handled when they target different
| domains. It takes some getting used to as there are a handful
| of options to understand/customize. Plus you can have
| customizations where you're replacing the current container
| with a new one which kills off your back button history. Just
| need to be aware of the quirks. It's definitely still in the
| realm of power-user UX.
| hosh wrote:
| I use this less for privacy and more for being able to keep all
| the different account signins straight. I wish there were support
| in the bookmark where I can define which bookmark targets which
| container.
| floatingatoll wrote:
| (3 months ago) https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-
| containers/issues/3...
|
| > _With #1537, our next release starts to address container-
| bookmark integration & UX. As @MichaelTunnell points out, it
| does not solve ALL of the container-bookmark UX requests in
| this issue, or in #854 #1142 and #1443._
|
| > _Container-bookmark UX is a big project, and some of the
| solutions will require changes in Firefox itself. Any changes
| here could introduce tricky bugs both in technical integration
| and in UX flows._
| hosh wrote:
| Yup. I am waiting for that to happen.
|
| In the meantime, I have been using a hacky work-around that
| more or less does the core thing that I want: quickly open up
| a specific bookmark in a specific container. (Actually adding
| it into the bookmarks and syncing across devices is a pain,
| but not as painful as not being able to open up bookmarks
| into specific containers).
| Thasc wrote:
| Same here. I have a work GitHub account, and a personal GitHub
| account, and am signed into each in a different container.
| Saves constant logging out and in, or using different browsers
| for each.
| mikece wrote:
| Easily one of the most useful extensions I've ever used in any
| browser. My only annoyance with it is that One Tab -- www.one-
| tab.com -- doesn't remember in which container to re-open saved
| tabs. I really wish this feature would be implemented in Safari,
| Edge, and Chrome.
| jcoffland wrote:
| Nice. Now my wife and I can both stay logged in to our email.
| I've wanted this feature for 15 years. Now, bring multi row tabs
| back and FF will be awesome again.
| JaRail wrote:
| Have you considered just creating multiple windows/mac
| accounts? Since you can switch without having to log off, it's
| really convenient. I understand partners sharing accounts and
| such but it's really just a better workflow/experience IMHO.
| groovybits wrote:
| I love this feature... on one machine at a time.
|
| Without a built-in sync feature, I continue to use the simplest
| form of cookie management: Private Windows.
|
| I know there's been some discussion on sync:
| https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3....
|
| As of Dec 2019, it looks like some traction will be coming to
| syncing just Containers and Site Assignments (which I believe
| would perfectly suffice most basic needs).
|
| If anyone really wanted to keep an eye on sync, I'm guessing
| these features will be committed to their syncserver, when
| available: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver.
| jtdev wrote:
| Same here, love this feature and use it daily! Hoping for a
| sync capability in the near future.
| skrowl wrote:
| Firefox Multi-Account Containers are impossible to go back from
| once you get used to them. Add in Conex
| (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/conex/) and you
| have really great tab group switching WITH containerization /
| "firewall" between containers.
|
| You can't get anywhere near this with Chrome as far as I'm aware.
| molszanski wrote:
| Chrome Profiles. Sadly, way better IMO
| [deleted]
| rudolph9 wrote:
| This is awesome!
| babak_ap wrote:
| Pair it with "containerise" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/containerise/ ). With containerise, you can
| easily edit a text file (host, container name) to
| create/edit/backup multiple containers.
| nickthemagicman wrote:
| This is great!
| ffcontti wrote:
| An alternative is to use firejail. If you want temp profiles you
| can write a script that: - copies a good initial profile to
| /dev/shm - launches Firefox in firejail with --private that
| points to the dir - delete the dir
|
| If you want the containers to stick around you can avoid /dev/shm
| and keep the dirs around instead.
| molszanski wrote:
| While nice, sadly, Chrome Profiles are a way better
| implementation. Chrome profiles is _the only_ reason why I am
| using chrome as a daily driver.
| mattlondon wrote:
| I have been using this on desktop for sometime now and really
| like it.
|
| I recently changed to using Firefox on Android and it seems some
| extensions like this one are not compatible which is a real
| shame.
|
| I wish that this was compatible with Firefox mobile
| maciekmm wrote:
| Shameless plug.
|
| If You want a sidebar with tabs grouped by containers, I
| developed an addon for it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/container-tab...
| j0hnM1st wrote:
| The biggest drawback with Multi-Account containers is that they
| don't sync with the Firefox Sync. I have an elaborate and
| carefully crafted set of containers. I even have one for
| TheGuradian where I am allowing ads but the moment a new machine
| is added to the workflow all is lost.
| no_protocol wrote:
| I can forgive the somewhat limited user interface for setting
| these up that is in the stock add-on, but the lack of automatic
| syncing of rules to all computers with the same Firefox account
| is really frustrating to deal with.
|
| Putting in the effort to get them all set up nicely and then
| having them either blown away (I think this happened once...) or
| needing to get that over to another computer has made me limit my
| use to fewer containers than I probably would otherwise use.
| t0mk wrote:
| There's a plugin for exporting the rules
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-sy...
| e40 wrote:
| I was all set to try this, over the syncing in Chrome of
| different Google accounts. Ah, well, when they get them syncing
| I will try it.
| briffle wrote:
| There is a plugin that will sync the actual containers, but it
| doesn't sync your rules you setup to always open site X in your
| personal container, etc.
|
| Without that, its useless to me. There is a bugzilla [0] for
| it, and 3 years ago, it was said they were going to look more
| into it, and nothing really since.. Its frustrating.
|
| [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288858
| alyandon wrote:
| That particular bug (having my container setup get blown away)
| has happened to me several times along with other bugs like not
| properly restoring tabs in the designated container when you
| restart FF to apply an update.
|
| Bugs like that would be forgivable if they'd at least provide a
| way to export/import setups.
| m-p-3 wrote:
| I wish that containers would be transferable in Firefox Sync
| accross systems.
| davnicwil wrote:
| A fantastic feature, but has a really frustrating UX issue still
| not fixed which is that you can't auto open a 'homepage' site for
| a new container tab, so say for example you have a container for
| one specific site, you have to open a new container tab and
| _then_ open that site using a bookmark or similar.
|
| What you _can_ do is have a certain site auto open in a specific
| container, that way you can just go to the site from a bookmark,
| link, the address bar etc and it is just one step, but this
| breaks when you have more than one account on the same site and
| want a container for each.
|
| If anyone does know a workaround for this, or knows if there's a
| fix coming, would be really interested to hear!
| dang wrote:
| A big thread from 2017:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15256603
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