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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by unethical_ban on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:04AM (#37223793)
I will say the process for creating a new container per website is bad.

* Create new container "target"

* Open new Target container

* Go to target.com

* Click the container menu and choose "Always open in..." and if you have a lot of containers, scroll down to "Target"

And then, you still get asked "Hey, you told us to open this in the target container, is that correct?" even though I have *explicitly* said that's exactly what I want.

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I would like a shortcut button for any site that isn't assigned to a container, where I could click the container menu and say "Create new container and assign this site to it" where it all happens at once. Boom, site isolated.

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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by rakoo on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:12AM (#37223902)
Use Multi-Account Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...), it does exactly what you want.
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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by unethical_ban on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:27AM (#37224116)
That's what I'm using. And I like its capability. But as I said, the first-time process for getting a site isolated (if you tend to isolate sites often) is cumbersome and I feel there could be a shortcut button for [create new container -> assign site to new container].
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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by rakoo on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:37AM (#37224288)
Ah, I see; I tend to isolate all sites I trust in the same container and everything else goes in a temporary container so I mostly have one trusted container (along with one for each of Facebook, LinkedIn and Google).

To add a new site to a new container, I manually edit the file (accessed through the pencil button) and add the line with the proper syntax:

    !*.sketchy-website.tld , My Isolation Container
It allows me to define that I want that for all subdomains in the same workflow. But I have to admit it is far from easy for someone who is not already used to this.
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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by earth2jason on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:45PM (#37228280)
Click the multi-container tab. Click "open in new tab". Then pick the container. This will give you a blank page in container. Type the url. Boom! The site url will now be attached to that container.
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