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Firefox Add-on that lets you open automatically managed disposable containers

21 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 1 story, 20 comments · first 2018-04-18 · latest 2025-11-12

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  1. That’s most probably a conflict with another extension… https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/347
    comment by DavideNL · 2025-11-12 · in Firefox expands fingerprint protections
  2. …at the time of our chat. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-con... [1]: https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/634
  3. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/wiki/Autom...
    comment by notherhack · 2025-11-11 · in Firefox expands fingerprint protections
  4. …you haven't seen it, there's also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... ( https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers MIT ) when you don't care about the containers but do care that their browsing context is…
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-09-03 · in What's New with Firefox 142
  5. alas "TC is now official unmaintened, hoping for a fork" https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/618
  6. The Temporary Containers extension is unmaintained: https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/618
    comment by wintermutestwin · 2023-10-20 · in Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
  7. The creator and maintainer of that extension has passed away in January. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/618
    comment by bunnybender · 2023-08-23 · in AI real-time human full-body photo generator
  8. Unfortunately the containers are all using the same fingerprint: https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/51
    comment by julianhul · 2023-02-13 · in Multi-Account Containers
  9. …the temp container will be wiped. The whole silly "No Container" business goes away entirely. See https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/wiki/Autom...
    comment by cypherpunks01 · 2023-01-19 · in Facebook Container Extension
  10. …to do instead. 1. https://violentmonkey.github.io/ 2. https://github.com/kintesh/containerise 3. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers 4. https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js The LTSC suggestion is also good. I'm already using…
    comment by 4cao · 2022-01-11 · in Firefox 96
  11. …counts as a write. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1... [2] https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/371
  12. Here is the issue if you are interested. It's still not closed: https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/371
    comment by notdang · 2020-10-21 · in Facebook Container for Firefox
  13. …set up what should happen on different actions (left click, ctrl+click, etc) and different domains. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/wiki/Globa...
    comment by ringer · 2020-10-21 · in Facebook Container for Firefox
  14. …(e.g. dtrace on macOS). At the end of the day, I choose one set of trade-offs over another. [1] https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/wiki/Isola...
  15. …bytes per object exceeded" - the remote end won't even let you delete the offending data. [1] https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/371 [2] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...
  16. …you're making is that the browser implements a profile in a given directory properly. [1] https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/wiki/Isola...
  17. …and Google Container[4]. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... [2]: https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers [3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont... [4]:…
  18. There's an extension which does. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers
    comment by Aelius · 2018-08-30 · in Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking
  19. It sounds like you're after Temporary Containers: https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers That gets you a clean container every time you click the button. Very useful for development testing, too :).
    comment by andrewaylett · 2018-04-18 · in Facebook Container for Firefox
  20. …-no-remote & Also interesting: https://github.com/mozfreddyb/webext-firstpartyisolation https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers
    comment by JoshMnem · 2018-04-18 · in Facebook Container for Firefox