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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by mendelmaleh on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:53AM (#21911858)
Or maybe don't... I relied too much on it, and lost quite some data. Too bad it had no sync capabilities, or even basic import/export for backing up.
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by zaphirplane on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:57AM (#21911889)
What type of data did you loose ? The addon seems to isolate cookies and storage by container
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by mendelmaleh on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:15AM (#21911993)
Yes... I had sessions in those containers, the cookies are the data I guess.
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by philshem on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:04AM (#21911928)
Can you explain? It’s a puzzling comment about containers
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by lawn on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:50AM (#21912474)
I've had problems where it loses my settings after update. They also don't sync between devices, making them quite cumbersome for me to use (you can copy the settings manually though).

When it's all setup it works great though.

Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by johnnycab on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:57AM (#21913026)
>They also don't sync between devices

I would second this, it took me a while to troubleshoot this problem. If you don't use Sync, then it might be irrelevant.

I also use Tab Suspender to reduce the footprint, the 'suspended' tabs also intermittently fail to sync.

Github: https://github.com/Hau-Hau/firefox-tab-suspender

Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by jlnthws on Monday December 30, 2019 @11:18AM (#21914349)
My "data loss" happened when Firefox updated itself automatically, said add-on was not compatible with latest Firefox and was disabled. After some time it became compatible again and was reenabled. All cookies in "containers" were lost.

Not sure anything else was lost though.

Anyway, password manager is still on a global (not per container/account), so it's easy to make mistakes and log in with "credentials A" in "container B". Or am I missing something?

Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by KaiserPro on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:42AM (#21912164)
There was/is a button that allowed you to clear your default container's entire session. I almost clicked that.