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I've been using this for over a month now, and while I'm convinced it's the right idea, the implementation leaves much to be desired. Currently, it costs more e
by nothrabannosir 9y ago
I've been using this for over a month now, and while I'm convinced it's the right idea, the implementation leaves much to be desired. Currently, it costs more effort than it's worth.
[EDIT: comments show this does exist! great]
Missing: easy way to open a new tab in a specific profile. ctrl-T always opens in Default profile, not the one you're on. So have to go File menu -> New tab -> select profile. And that menu changes items around slightly, so no muscle memory. I end up going to a tab already open, middle clicking a random link, ctrl-L, and using that as a fresh tab. I see on their little drawings they show some cool drop down under the + button at the right of the tab row, but I can't find any such functionality.
[EDIT: Comments show exists. Good enough!]
Missing: a way to fix certain hosts to certain profiles. E.g. {XXX.myclient.com -> always open in "Client X" tab}. E.g. with links from GitHub (which is client independent) into custom CIs (jenkins etc). You forget, "why isn't this logged in? oh, profiles", go back, right click the link, open in new container -> select container. Ugh.
Missing: a way to disallow any non-whitelisted hosts from a tab. E.g. having a gmail tab is useless, because every link you click will open in that profile (and you won't notice because hey, it works) and now your gmail credentials and cookies are available there. Again defeats the purpose. Especially for a "Banking" tab, for example.
Missing: clear warning that this doesn't do anything meaningful against tracking. It's a complete waste of time to separate your Facebook into a separate profile if you don't want to be tracked across other domains. Fingerprinting goes well beyond cookies. They don't need your account cookie to link your visits.
Missing: segmentation of plugins!! Different NoScript or µblock settings per profile? yes please! Or even just native Firefox settings (3rd party cookies, clearing policy, etc) per website per profile would be lovely.
All in all: I'm stubborn so I'll keep using it, but I'll be honest: there's quite a low ROI on them, as they are. Good start, hope they improve.
EDIT: Another missing: clear cookies only from a certain profile. E.g. discover I've accidentally been browsing youtube in work profile (or whatever), I want to delete all youtube cookies _but only from that profile_. Can't do it. I encounter this problem often with GMail, where I want to clear a friend's login but not log out all my sessions from different containers.
(PS: Sorry for using "profile" and "container" interchangeably---it was a bit stream of consciousness. I mean "container" for both words).
- ChrisSD 9y ago> Missing: easy way to open a new tab in a specific profile Long click the new tab button then select the profile. Or just click the button on the toolbar and select the profile. > Missing: a way to fix certain hosts to certain profiles. When you click the toolbar button, you get the option to always open in the current container.
- baliex 9y ago> Long click the new tab button then select the profile. Or just click the button on the toolbar and select the profile. Further to this, I've been using (and meaning to embellish on) a little trick to make this even simpler, without having to use the mouse, using the "always open this host in container X" feature. I have 2 gmail accounts so don't want to tie gmail.com to a specific container. I only have 1 pagerduty account so I have that open in my Work container automatically. So, to get to my work gmail I open a new tab (Ctrl+T), go to pagerduty (you don't have to wait for it to load), then go to gmail. Voila, work gmail without the mouse. The embellishment is to set up work.mydomain.com, play.mydomain.com, whatever.mydomain.com. Tie each of them to a container and go from there.
- auscompgeek 9y ago> I see on their little drawings they show some cool drop down under the + button at the right of the tab row, but I can't find any such functionality. Click and hold the new tab button. You should see the menu.
- rsanders 9y agoThe Firefox "containers" experiment (available in Nightly at least, maybe earlier) lets you set a site to always open in a certain profile. Even if you use ctrl-T (or ctrl-click on a link from a default tab, etc.) to open a new tab in Default, navigating to a site that's set to always open in container B will cause that tab to switch to container B.
- daenney 9y ago> Missing: a way to disallow any non-whitelisted hosts from a tab. E.g. having a gmail tab is useless, because every link you click will open in that profile (and you won't notice because hey, it works) and now your gmail credentials and cookies are available there. Again defeats the purpose. Especially for a "Banking" tab, for example. You can mitigate some of this with Cookie AutoDelete which has support for contextual identities. After you close a tab it'll nuke cookies for any non-whitelisted domain for that context.