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Re:Facebook Container Extension by Mozilla Firefox by ranting-moth on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:55AM (#34438523)
> I do want every new tab I open to come with a clean slate

I'd like that too, how can you do that?

I've been using Firefox containers for a while. When I open a new tab it opens in the default non-container which carries it's own storage cesspit.

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Re:Facebook Container Extension by Mozilla Firefox by _flux on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:35AM (#34438825)
You need to use Temporary Container's shortcut to open the tab, I think extensions cannot override builtin ones.. (And you need Temporary Containers in the first place: that's the bit that creates fresh new containers.)

For me the shortcut is alt C.

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Re:Facebook Container Extension by Mozilla Firefox by cypherpunks01 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:52AM (#34439755)
The answer is using Temporary Contains with "Automatic Mode" enabled in the preferences.

I just opened a new tab normally, with no shortcut, and it automatically created a fresh temp container "tmp2". I logged into HN and replied to this comment. I will close the tab now, and in 5 minutes, due to another Temp Containers setting, everything in the temp container will be wiped.

The whole silly "No Container" business goes away entirely.

See https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/wiki/Autom...

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