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Containers are great. I've been using them for a bit. They definitely need a few things. Like an ability for the "new tab" to be sticky (if I'm in a container -

Containers are great. I've been using them for a bit. They definitely need a few things. Like an ability for the "new tab" to be sticky (if I'm in a container - new tab should open in the same container), and the ability to pick which container to open things in when the OS triggers the browser to open a URL. Right now it's very leaky... Say I start a registration process for a site in a container, they send a email confirmation, I click the link and it opens outside of the container, leaking the cookies. Bad for OPSEC.

jgruen 10y ago
Agreed. Right now we're pretty hands off about modifying default behaviors, link handling etc. Chalk this up to us wanting to be unopinionated about specific use cases, but there are definitely some optimizations to be made to shore up the situations you describe. Test Pilot is for WIP software, so don't be shy about filing issues.
- Ar-Curunir 10y ago
  Would it be possible to have an add-on for this? One that automatically opens each website in a new container? That would allow default behaviour for most people, but for those that want isolation, it would be easy to get it.
  - cpeterso 10y ago
    There is a Contextual Identities API for WebExtensions shipping in Firefox 53: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/contextualIdentities https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...
tylerflick 10y ago
They're great, but they seem to force me to change my workflow to work around them. If a FF PM is reading this: being able to register a domain for a container type would be a killer feature.
- potch 10y ago
  Not the PM you're looking for, but: that feedback has definitely already been recorded.
  - jgruen 10y ago
    1. Hello potch! 2. Yes, this is among the most requested features we've seen so far. Containers in Test Pilot will remain in active development for the foreseeable future, so I wouldn't be surprised to see such a feature forthcoming.
- cpeterso 10y ago
  The following GitHub issue tracks that feature request. It might be cool to ship a default classification list for common banking and shopping sites so they are already "contained". https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/306 https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/306
pmontra 10y ago
It would be great if it could create automatically one container per domain: every site would be neatly separated from all the other ones. If you logged in Facebook the other tabs for other sites wouldn't know about it. Doing that manually every time is almost impossible.
- alyandon 10y ago
  I would pay actual money to help get a feature like that into Chromium or Firefox. Hell, if Firefox added that exact feature I might actually rethink my decision to switch to Chrome once they drop support for all the addons I use.
  - cpeterso 10y ago
    There is an experimental implementation of that feature, called "First Party Isolation", in Firefox today. You just need to set the `privacy.firstparty.isolate` pref = true in about:config. With this pref enabled, advertiser X will serve you different cookies on site A and B. They won't be able to track your browsing history from site to site. However, this breaks a lot of sites that depend on third-party services for login authentication or comment systems. Here is the Firefox bug where you can report broken sites: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299996 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299996
  - groovecoder 10y ago
    We are also hard at work supporting add-on authors porting to WebExtension APIs. I'm especially trying to help Privacy & Security add-on authors.
    - pmontra 10y ago
      uBlock, NoScript, Self Destructing Cookies. Also DisableWebRTC. Firefox would be Opera, Chrome or Vivaldi without them. No particular reason to use it or a random one among the others. Stylish and Greasemonkey are useful too, when sites insist doing the wrong things. I hope all of them survive the switch. Will they?
groovecoder 10y ago
We have an issue in the GitHub repo for this ... the more upvotes it gets, the more likely we will put it into a next release. :) https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/306 https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/306
wybiral 10y ago
My only problem is that at my monitor resolution the little color strip is almost invisible. I'd like for it to be more visually clear.

jgruen 10y ago

Agreed. Right now we're pretty hands off about modifying default behaviors, link handling etc. Chalk this up to us wanting to be unopinionated about specific use cases, but there are definitely some optimizations to be made to shore up the situations you describe. Test Pilot is for WIP software, so don't be shy about filing issues.

Ar-Curunir 10y ago
Would it be possible to have an add-on for this? One that automatically opens each website in a new container? That would allow default behaviour for most people, but for those that want isolation, it would be easy to get it.
- cpeterso 10y ago
  There is a Contextual Identities API for WebExtensions shipping in Firefox 53: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/contextualIdentities https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...

tylerflick 10y ago

They're great, but they seem to force me to change my workflow to work around them. If a FF PM is reading this: being able to register a domain for a container type would be a killer feature.

potch 10y ago
Not the PM you're looking for, but: that feedback has definitely already been recorded.
- jgruen 10y ago
  1. Hello potch! 2. Yes, this is among the most requested features we've seen so far. Containers in Test Pilot will remain in active development for the foreseeable future, so I wouldn't be surprised to see such a feature forthcoming.
cpeterso 10y ago
The following GitHub issue tracks that feature request. It might be cool to ship a default classification list for common banking and shopping sites so they are already "contained". https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/306 https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/306

pmontra 10y ago

It would be great if it could create automatically one container per domain: every site would be neatly separated from all the other ones. If you logged in Facebook the other tabs for other sites wouldn't know about it. Doing that manually every time is almost impossible.

alyandon 10y ago
I would pay actual money to help get a feature like that into Chromium or Firefox. Hell, if Firefox added that exact feature I might actually rethink my decision to switch to Chrome once they drop support for all the addons I use.
- cpeterso 10y ago
  There is an experimental implementation of that feature, called "First Party Isolation", in Firefox today. You just need to set the `privacy.firstparty.isolate` pref = true in about:config. With this pref enabled, advertiser X will serve you different cookies on site A and B. They won't be able to track your browsing history from site to site. However, this breaks a lot of sites that depend on third-party services for login authentication or comment systems. Here is the Firefox bug where you can report broken sites: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299996 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299996
- groovecoder 10y ago
  We are also hard at work supporting add-on authors porting to WebExtension APIs. I'm especially trying to help Privacy & Security add-on authors.
  - pmontra 10y ago
    uBlock, NoScript, Self Destructing Cookies. Also DisableWebRTC. Firefox would be Opera, Chrome or Vivaldi without them. No particular reason to use it or a random one among the others. Stylish and Greasemonkey are useful too, when sites insist doing the wrong things. I hope all of them survive the switch. Will they?

groovecoder 10y ago

We have an issue in the GitHub repo for this ... the more upvotes it gets, the more likely we will put it into a next release. :) https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/306 https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/306

wybiral 10y ago

My only problem is that at my monitor resolution the little color strip is almost invisible. I'd like for it to be more visually clear.