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…& build it for myself, but the codebase relating to that was just a mindfuck to work on... [0] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1566 TL;DR: https://xkcd.com/619

comment by rrr_oh_man · 2024-08-26 · in Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor

…Profiles behaves correctly and (AFAIK) is scoped just to that Profile unlike our container friend: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3... I still use them because combined with…

comment by mdaniel · 2023-07-17 · in Ask HN: Why does Firefox have such a low market share anyways?

…because Firefox was crashing when I tried sorting 2000 tabs with two different extensions [1]. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/2...

comment by rolandog · 2023-02-16 · in Sorting 400+ Chrome tabs in seconds

…an open issue for that. [2] [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... [2] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/2...

comment by flurdy · 2023-02-13 · in Multi-Account Containers

…to delete data (cache, cookies and local storage) per container. Look for that in a future release. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/249...

comment by mozillamaxx · 2023-02-13 · in Multi-Account Containers

…is still no first-party support for resetting the cache or the cookies in a per-container fashion. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

comment by jhanschoo · 2023-02-03 · in Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

…for the browser containers 1: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta... and https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers#readme

comment by mdaniel · 2022-10-18 · in Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

…year old issue for expanding matching support[1]. Some days I think about trying to hack on it. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/4...

comment by rektide · 2022-05-28 · in Firefox Extension – Multi-Account Containers by Firefox

…5. https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix 6. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#ublock-origin 7. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers#readme 8. https://decentraleyes.org/ 9. https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

comment by Anthony-G · 2022-02-06 · in Play Wordle from Your Terminal

…in the active container and one of them does not. This is a dealbreaker for me and kills the hype. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

comment by warent · 2022-02-01 · in Multi-Account Containers Add-on on Mozilla VPN

Related issue: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/2...

comment by ComodoHacker · 2021-11-26 · in Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

…before a release. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... [2] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/215... [3] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/218...

comment by dessant · 2021-11-26 · in Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

…code and publish it yourself. Though possibly you can also just download and install that directly? https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/releases...

comment by Vinnl · 2021-11-26 · in Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

…the sync server refuses all write operations and delete call apparently counts as a write. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1... [2] https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/371

comment by avian · 2021-11-26 · in Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

…feature, but aren't quite there yet. For example, history is currently not isolated per container: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283320 Multiple browser…

comment by pulsarmx · 2021-10-05 · in Firefox 93

…last year on per-container proxy support. Follow this issue for (hopefully soon) progress here: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/190...

comment by mozillamaxx · 2021-08-30 · in Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)

…unlike every other add-on ... ever. Bug is three years old but maybe we can push it over the top: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...

comment by paulryanrogers · 2021-04-09 · in uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

…and the power thing is not a huge issue if I'm sitting wired in all day anyway. [1]: My criticisms: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...

comment by mikepurvis · 2021-03-15 · in Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu

…Brave implemented this and did it right (with sorting & reordering) I would consider switching. [0] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/160...

comment by mahalel · 2021-01-19 · in IPFS Support in Brave

…are a bunch of challenges with regard to what you allow a container to access. Here's one issue: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/4... .

comment by atombender · 2020-12-17 · in Firefox Was Always Enough

…the setting on a per domain/Container in the UI. Follow along for the root domain issue here: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...

comment by mozillamaxx · 2020-09-22 · in Firefox 81.0

…you delete the offending data. [1] https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/371 [2] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...

comment by avian · 2020-06-03 · in Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data

I didn't see multi-account containers mentioned: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers#readme That one changed my life. It allows me to log into different AWS accounts at the same time. Also different Gmail accounts at once…

comment by jedberg · 2020-05-21 · in Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better

…that includes a "Limit to Designated Sites" feature in the base Multi-Account Containers extension: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/165...

comment by groovecoder · 2020-03-10 · in Firefox 74

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/161... was just merged earlier today that introduces the sync function.

comment by nesl247 · 2020-02-11 · in Firefox 73

M-A-C dev here ... We're actually pretty deep into the work of adding sync to M-A-C. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/161... Predictably, synchronizing data is complicated, so it's taking a while and we're trying to…

comment by groovecoder · 2020-01-15 · in Firefox Multi-Account Containers

…this and use it daily but am sad that they don’t sync between machines (and the discussion over at https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3... is a bit disenhartening)

comment by rcarmo · 2020-01-14 · in Firefox Multi-Account Containers

…simplest form of cookie management: Private Windows. I know there's been some discussion on sync: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3... . As of Dec 2019, it looks like some traction will be coming to syncing just…

comment by groovybits · 2020-01-14 · in Firefox Multi-Account Containers

…if you use multiple computers, you'll be spending a lot of time duplicating the configuration: See https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

comment by acdha · 2020-01-14 · in Firefox Multi-Account Containers

…accessible with other containers. For example, a Shopping container should have its own history. ( https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/4... )

comment by dmachop · 2020-01-14 · in Firefox Multi-Account Containers

(3 months ago) https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3... > With #1537, our next release starts to address container-bookmark integration & UX. As @MichaelTunnell points out, it does not solve ALL of the…

comment by floatingatoll · 2020-01-14 · in Firefox Multi-Account Containers

I love it. Wish container settings would be synced though: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3... #1 most requested feature so there's hope, although it's been open for over two years. Maybe now that the new…

comment by sleepless · 2019-10-12 · in A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

…Firefox containers. Per-container or per-tab VPN sessions in a web browser would be neat. Related: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

comment by foresto · 2019-08-31 · in A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4

I too lost my multi-containers and assignments. I was just reading this (2017) discussion: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3... and noticed mention of file 'containers.json', which I found in my current Firefox…

comment by 8bitsrule · 2019-05-06 · in Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

…They basically explain they won't add it to sync data because there is no containers on mobile. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

comment by lugg · 2019-05-05 · in Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

…Containers" extension developed by Mozilla with some default settings for Facebook and Google. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers

comment by kasbah · 2019-02-22 · in Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default

I had a look at the github issue, and what worked was this comment: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/8... You can try this if it affects you.

comment by bubblethink · 2019-01-30 · in Firefox 65.0 released

…the issue on my machine. (By the way, the link includes an extra underscore. The correct one is https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/8... )

comment by snazz · 2019-01-29 · in Firefox 65.0 released

…was web.whatsapp.com. I think this is the tracker, although I didn't really look too much into it ( https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/8... Edit: fixed link

comment by bubblethink · 2019-01-29 · in Firefox 65.0 released

…is a shortcut to open a new tab using current container[0]. it would make usage a lot easier. [0] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/4...

comment by fernandotakai · 2018-12-07 · in Goodbye, EdgeHTML

…close to what I'm after.. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sticky-contai... [0] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

comment by thehenster · 2018-12-07 · in Goodbye, EdgeHTML

…an issue to add something similar to Multi-Account Containers, not sure what the status is on that: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/8...

comment by hcs · 2018-12-03 · in Firefox Profilemaker

It is many folks', and we appreciate the feedback. Hopefully things will get better soon: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

comment by tomrittervg · 2018-11-14 · in Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync

…to a certain domain[1]. However, as it functions now, my containers are easily polluted. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/8...

comment by unicornporn · 2018-09-25 · in Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change

I am not sure if that'll be the case. The Multi Account Container ( https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers ) seems like it's dead. No new commits since end of March and according to https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-cont…

comment by TheWiseOne · 2018-09-05 · in Firefox 62.0 Released

…EDIT: ah, well, I found the relevant github issue. Looks like there's years of arguing yet to go! https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

comment by kemayo · 2018-06-26 · in Firefox 61.0 Released

…containers (again, such a shame). There's an open issue [1], but no resolution yet as it seems. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

comment by dark_ph0enix · 2018-06-26 · in Firefox 61.0 Released

…because the extension doesn't seem to support the "Never remember history" browser option. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

comment by perennate · 2018-03-27 · in Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked

…which is whether a specific domain is assigned to a container (you can read about it here https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/wiki/API ). Now, why "automatically" for Add-ons that have the "contextualIdentities" permission?…

comment by stoically · 2018-03-12 · in Firefox Configuration Guide for Privacy Freaks and Performance Buffs

…themes" What's that if not a new telemetry? In a privacy-oriented extension! It's explained here: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/wiki/Per... "" Monitor extension usage and manage themes": Required to provide…

comment by acqq · 2018-03-02 · in Firefox Configuration Guide for Privacy Freaks and Performance Buffs