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The problem with Firefox containers is that it requires micromanaging your web browsing. I'm sure it's nice for people who obsess about privacy, but it's not s

The problem with Firefox containers is that it requires micromanaging your web browsing. I'm sure it's nice for people who obsess about privacy, but it's not something that the general user population is going to adopt. I think the right approach, ultimately, would be compartmentalize all web sites, but that's not feasible right now.

floatingatoll 6y ago
Does Alexa still maintain their list of categorizations of the top N million websites?
pabs3 6y ago
Why couldn't you compartmentalize all web sites? Seems like something that could be easily done.
- atombender 6y ago
  There are a bunch of challenges with regard to what you allow a container to access. Here's one issue: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/473 https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/4....
  - laumars 6y ago
    That issue genuinely doesn’t come up often. I’ve ran into it once in a year of using FF containers and even then, that was because of a weird DIY SSO solution I’m running on my home LAN (certainly not something most folk are going to run into). Don’t get me wrong, the issue was highly annoying but it’s definitely not a frequent bug bare. There are existing extensions for managing some popular cloud platforms and that goes a long way in terms of convenience. The bigger annoyance is sites that intentionally cross talk (like “deploy stacks” buttons where 3rd party sites can run Cloudformation scripts against your AWS console). But in those cases it’s an annoyance I’m willing to manage considering they’re blocked by Temporary Containers doing exactly what it’s intended to do.
laumars 6y ago
> The problem with Firefox containers is that it requires micromanaging your web browsing. I'm sure it's nice for people who obsess about privacy, but it's not something that the general user population is going to adopt. Yeah I completely agree. There are extensions that make managing containers easier but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I still run into regular problems. That said, the Facebook and Google extensions don’t require micromanaging. They only cover those two respective clouds but it’s still a really strong starting point. > I think the right approach, ultimately, would be compartmentalize all web sites, but that's not feasible right now It is possible with the Temporary Containers extension in Firefox. In fact this is exactly how I’ve been browsing the web for around a year now. It’s really liberating.

floatingatoll 6y ago

Does Alexa still maintain their list of categorizations of the top N million websites?

pabs3 6y ago

Why couldn't you compartmentalize all web sites? Seems like something that could be easily done.

atombender 6y ago
There are a bunch of challenges with regard to what you allow a container to access. Here's one issue: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/473 https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/4....
- laumars 6y ago
  That issue genuinely doesn’t come up often. I’ve ran into it once in a year of using FF containers and even then, that was because of a weird DIY SSO solution I’m running on my home LAN (certainly not something most folk are going to run into). Don’t get me wrong, the issue was highly annoying but it’s definitely not a frequent bug bare. There are existing extensions for managing some popular cloud platforms and that goes a long way in terms of convenience. The bigger annoyance is sites that intentionally cross talk (like “deploy stacks” buttons where 3rd party sites can run Cloudformation scripts against your AWS console). But in those cases it’s an annoyance I’m willing to manage considering they’re blocked by Temporary Containers doing exactly what it’s intended to do.

laumars 6y ago

> The problem with Firefox containers is that it requires micromanaging your web browsing. I'm sure it's nice for people who obsess about privacy, but it's not something that the general user population is going to adopt. Yeah I completely agree. There are extensions that make managing containers easier but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I still run into regular problems. That said, the Facebook and Google extensions don’t require micromanaging. They only cover those two respective clouds but it’s still a really strong starting point. > I think the right approach, ultimately, would be compartmentalize all web sites, but that's not feasible right now It is possible with the Temporary Containers extension in Firefox. In fact this is exactly how I’ve been browsing the web for around a year now. It’s really liberating.