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The main problem I see with account containers — still — is that you can't say "this container can only have certain websites in it". For example, if you put re

The main problem I see with account containers — still — is that you can't say "this container can only have certain websites in it". For example, if you put reddit in a "social" container, but click on links to the stories, then you have all of your cookies and stuff polluting the social container.

some_account 8y ago
The Temporary Containers plugin is very nice. It can be configured to keep all tabs completely isolated, as if they were their own browser. And you can set it to isolate subdomains or not, which is very useful when you need multiple tabs and want the same session in them.
mehrdadn 8y ago
I feel like the cause is most likely that there are just too many darn websites for a user to be willing to specify them all. Solving this would seem to require some global database of "all sites run by company X" that undergoes constant maintenance.
- kibwen 8y ago
  How far would the WHOIS records go toward providing that info?
  - mehrdadn 8y ago
    Not sure... sounds to me like you'd at least need a cache of all WHOIS records in the world to be able to invert the mappings from an org to its domains.
ytjohn 8y ago
The Facebook Container Extension does this. The maintainers hard code the list, but it really makes me think that someone can make an extension to let a user manage a list themselves. As an early adopter of Facebook Container, I had to live through when I couldn't log into messenger.com (the only part of facebook I really used). For that specific project, they maintainers wanted to control the list of domains as opposed to allowing users to maintain their own list and "dilute" the effectiveness of the container for "everyone else". Ie, if something was missing, they wanted to fix it upstream and push it down. I would like to see an extension like this for google. I do use google and I have set the various google apps I use to only open in the google container. But the main google.com/search domain does open in any container. I have to be careful if google prompts me to login to not login. https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/45#issuecomment-377623944 https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/45#issuec... https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/blob/1e37bc677acda63e4621d79677131aed9059e1e3/background.js#L5 https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/blob/1e37bc677ac...

some_account 8y ago

The Temporary Containers plugin is very nice. It can be configured to keep all tabs completely isolated, as if they were their own browser. And you can set it to isolate subdomains or not, which is very useful when you need multiple tabs and want the same session in them.

mehrdadn 8y ago

I feel like the cause is most likely that there are just too many darn websites for a user to be willing to specify them all. Solving this would seem to require some global database of "all sites run by company X" that undergoes constant maintenance.

kibwen 8y ago
How far would the WHOIS records go toward providing that info?
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  Not sure... sounds to me like you'd at least need a cache of all WHOIS records in the world to be able to invert the mappings from an org to its domains.

ytjohn 8y ago

The Facebook Container Extension does this. The maintainers hard code the list, but it really makes me think that someone can make an extension to let a user manage a list themselves. As an early adopter of Facebook Container, I had to live through when I couldn't log into messenger.com (the only part of facebook I really used). For that specific project, they maintainers wanted to control the list of domains as opposed to allowing users to maintain their own list and "dilute" the effectiveness of the container for "everyone else". Ie, if something was missing, they wanted to fix it upstream and push it down. I would like to see an extension like this for google. I do use google and I have set the various google apps I use to only open in the google container. But the main google.com/search domain does open in any container. I have to be careful if google prompts me to login to not login. https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/45#issuecomment-377623944 https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/issues/45#issuec... https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/blob/1e37bc677acda63e4621d79677131aed9059e1e3/background.js#L5 https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook/blob/1e37bc677ac...