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Re:uBlock Origin works best on Firefox by colordrops on Monday August 22, 2022 @12:42AM (#32547444)
Agreed, containers are great. I love them and wish they were a standard feature across browsers. Still some room for improvement though. It would be nice if the containers acted like an entirely different instance of a browser, with different settings, history, extensions, etc. With the current design it's still possible to accidently leaked details across containers by visiting something in the wrong one if you havent set up exclusive browsing for a particular site, and history is shared across containers. Would be nice to be able to export container settings as well as a lot of work can go into setting them up.
Re:uBlock Origin works best on Firefox by rroot on Monday August 22, 2022 @12:51AM (#32547502)
You get this functionality by using Firefox profiles. It's a separate browser instance with completely separated history, extension, ...

It doesn't work like containers though, you can't open a new tab in a new profile.

Re:uBlock Origin works best on Firefox by commoner on Monday August 22, 2022 @01:09AM (#32547589)
If you use Firefox profiles regularly, you might enjoy the Profile Switcher for Firefox add-on, which provides a Chrome-like interface for loading and managing profiles in Firefox:

- Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

- Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher

Re:uBlock Origin works best on Firefox by sdwolfz on Monday August 22, 2022 @01:48AM (#32547802)
Please access this link and generate interest around Firefox natively implementing the same UI/UX for Profiles as Chrome has right now:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/shortcut-for-different-...

Also there's this bug report:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542189

Hopefully someone will listen to feedback, this time...

Re:uBlock Origin works best on Firefox by hendersoon on Monday August 22, 2022 @12:18PM (#32553585)
Considering Thunderbird still doesn't support a multi-line message list after 19 years[1], if you need that feature I suggest using the addon linked earlier because Mozilla does not move quickly.

1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945

Re:uBlock Origin works best on Firefox by happymellon on Monday August 22, 2022 @03:26AM (#32548361)
I've stated this so many times for decades now. Profile support is something that I would literally pay towards funding support but there isnt a good way of setting up a bounty which I'll pay £100 into each month until the bounty is large enough to motivate someone to do it.
Re:uBlock Origin works best on Firefox by colordrops on Monday August 22, 2022 @12:39PM (#32553866)
I have 10 different containers set up - profiles are too clunky for this.