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Somewhat related: If I'm using Nightly as my main browser, is there still a reason to install the Multi-Account Containers extension?

NikolaeVarius 7y ago
What does the question even mean?
- _-___________-_ 7y ago
  Parent comment doesn't make it clear at all, but Nightly has multi-account containers built in. I guess they want to know whether the extension adds any features beyond what is built in to Nightly.
  - markosaric 7y ago
    Containers are built into any of the versions of Firefox and can be used even without an addon. You just need to turn them on in about:config: privacy.userContext.enabled to true privacy.userContext.ui.enabled to true privacy.userContext.longPressBehavior to 2
    - _-___________-_ 7y ago
      TIL. Thanks!
nwah1 7y ago
Multi-Account Containers is a specific way to enhance privacy that, at present, requires some manual setup of each container. Sites that rely on authenticating or payment processing with other sites will not work outside of the established container. For instance, if you try to pay for something with paypal, but you have a paypal container, then you'll either have to sign into paypal in both containers, and if you set paypal to always open in the paypal container then you'll lose whatever session you had in the other container so you need to pay attention.
- smichel17 7y ago
  My current workaround is to open a private window when I need to do something like this.
  - nwah1 7y ago
    Containers remember your login details, etc. And you can do one for each company, whereas you can only have one private session open. So I can seamlessly browse facebook, google, amazon, paypal, my bank, and so on and feel confident that my cookies and sessions aren't being leaked across websites. That they aren't tracking my behavior off the site via the browser. And I don't even consciously need to open a specific type of tab, I can set it so that it will always load that tab for that site. And the Facebook Container plugin, in particular, sets everything up for facebook automatically with regard to any domains owned by facebook.

NikolaeVarius 7y ago

What does the question even mean?

_-___________-_ 7y ago
Parent comment doesn't make it clear at all, but Nightly has multi-account containers built in. I guess they want to know whether the extension adds any features beyond what is built in to Nightly.
- markosaric 7y ago
  Containers are built into any of the versions of Firefox and can be used even without an addon. You just need to turn them on in about:config: privacy.userContext.enabled to true privacy.userContext.ui.enabled to true privacy.userContext.longPressBehavior to 2
  - _-___________-_ 7y ago
    TIL. Thanks!

nwah1 7y ago

Multi-Account Containers is a specific way to enhance privacy that, at present, requires some manual setup of each container. Sites that rely on authenticating or payment processing with other sites will not work outside of the established container. For instance, if you try to pay for something with paypal, but you have a paypal container, then you'll either have to sign into paypal in both containers, and if you set paypal to always open in the paypal container then you'll lose whatever session you had in the other container so you need to pay attention.

smichel17 7y ago
My current workaround is to open a private window when I need to do something like this.
- nwah1 7y ago
  Containers remember your login details, etc. And you can do one for each company, whereas you can only have one private session open. So I can seamlessly browse facebook, google, amazon, paypal, my bank, and so on and feel confident that my cookies and sessions aren't being leaked across websites. That they aren't tracking my behavior off the site via the browser. And I don't even consciously need to open a specific type of tab, I can set it so that it will always load that tab for that site. And the Facebook Container plugin, in particular, sets everything up for facebook automatically with regard to any domains owned by facebook.