Amen Sister. One container for browsing. One for my shopping gmail, ebay and Amazon. One for my fake Facebook acct. One for my work gmail, work chat and related.
> There's another called Proxy Containers so I can have separate tabs taking separate paths out.
I can use this literally yesterday for at least 3 separate issues I was facing.
Probably Firefox sync, but most likely the extension. I’ll use it again once it works.
Container Number: Reuse available numbers
Delete no longer needed Temporary Containers: After the last tab in it closes
Are there any critical issues with this plugin?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/
Default Container: On
Container Name: tmp_{domain}
Lifetime: Until last tab is closed
Rule Addition: *.{domain}.{tld}
You and me both. I can live in a decent house with decent neighbors. Or I can live in pretty decent house with neighbors who borrow my stuff without asking, whiz on my fence and meet in secret to figure out how to exploit me.
- They aren't exactly an easy to discover feature. There is a mention of the feature in the settings, but making use of them requires the use of an addon.
- Other people do have use cases for separate profiles. Most people wouldn't even know they exist unless they have used Firefox for an incredibly long time, and they aren't exactly easy for the typical person to use.
Now, to organize tabs I use Tab Stash. I put things like 200+ YouTube music tabs in 1 group, 1-off projects in another, k8s stuff in another, job/career postings I need to complete in another, etc. Things that are temporary are shown under the default group at the top. This also allows me to keep most of my tabs "frozen" and out of memory/inactive while still keeping 400+ tabs open.
(Tab Stash is vertical tabs. Sidebery was the fastest, but Tab Stash has the grouping and inactive tab stuff I need)
My presrntation was definitely undercut by the methods I use to browse the internet, and using an HDMI adapter direct to iPhone.
To them… it was like I fired up a custom rolled Linux distro from 20 years in the future and used minority report hand controls on it.
Really set some expectations for me on my next presentation.
Middle click to open tab, control C in a password manager, and then remember a minute later to paste it where it belongs, switching between tabs quickly, getting an SMS, and only glancing at it quickly enough to remember the number and type it in.
By the way I've heard an extension author say that containers are not required with the new strict isolation features.
Adding Containers to Chrome would be largely pointless - because Google anyway has access to everything. It's like adding a VPN to Android and then still using Map and everything while logged with your Google a/c. Chrome by design has no privacy.
I know many of us (if not all) are already aware of this (or something on this lines) but this is important to make this distinction when talking about Firefox and Chrome in one breath.
Comparing Chrome and Firefox when it comes to privacy is apples and oranges. I know you were not directly doing that but I still thought it is important to be noted.
Containers aren't for protection against browser - they protect one digital identity from leaking into another. And to be able to log in into multiple accounts at the same time
It worked very well for the “you have three articles remaining” to view for free. Now I’m back to scrolling to the bottom of an article to make sure it doesn’t disappear into same login wall and see if reader view bypasses it before I start reading.
One example: You can't edit a container's site list, you can only add the currently loaded FQDN to it. So, you can't for example assign *.google.com to your Google container, you can only add each individual subdomain, and only after loading it.
Worse, if a host you want to add is part of a redirect chain, there seems to be no way to add it at all. For example, mail.google.com redirects you to accounts.google.com which quickly redirects you back to mail.google.com. There is no way to get accounts.google.com added to the list. As a result of this, the "Limit to designated sites only" feature is completely unusable. (And the only reason these problems exists is because Mozilla in its infinite wisdom has decided that an Add button and a text input in the sites list would be too much for us lowly users.)
Another common annoyance I had was the inability to clear cookies and site data for a given container only (or for the default container without affecting any named containers).
In the end I just bought more RAM and went back to using separate profiles.
- Complex cloud services with many domains. Microsoft Office 365 uses such a bewildering collection of domains... I wound up just doing all MSFT stuff in edge. Google has similar issues.
- explicit rules are too brittle. I wish it could dynamically recommend a tab family to use based on content or similar.
- hard to manage. I wound up with dozens and dozens of temp container that buried my persistent, named containers. That made me rely more on the filtering rules, which required a lot of maintenance and tweaking.
The Containerise addon lets you do both, thoug it hasn't been updated in a few years: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/
There's another called Proxy Containers so I can have separate tabs taking separate paths out.
There are many benefits to Chrome and it's dev tools, and I respect the Firefox mission more for all the shit Mozilla has done. But I'm bound to Firefox regardless of the pros and cons because it's the only browser that can do this.