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I'm not terribly familiar with all the features that Multi-Account Containers offer. Does SessionBox for Chrome not meet your needs for some specific reason?

toyg 6y ago
There is an extension for everything, that’s not the point. Firefox ships it as standard and supports it as such.
- minitoar 6y ago
  Forgive my ignorance, but I think the thing OP linked is also an addon?
  - toyg 6y ago
    It’s an addon from Mozilla itself that just surfaces a bit of UI for advanced controls. The actual feature is already baked in the browser, they’ve just been very conservative about exposing it to everyone.
  - marcolussetti 6y ago
    You are not wrong. However it's a first-party extension, as in it's from Mozilla. Debatable how significant that is as a difference.
  - pricci 6y ago
    Firefox has the containerization built in. You can use it without the extension but with worst UX. > For advanced users: You can also enable Containers without the Multi-Account Containers extension, by changing some preferences in the Configuration Editor (about:config page). Note that you will get a better user experience by installing the extension but, if you choose not to, you can set privacy.userContext.enabled to true, privacy.userContext.ui.enabled to true and privacy.userContext.longPressBehavior to 2 in about:config. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
- input_sh 6y ago
  There's a similar thing shipped in Chrome now called Tab Groups, you just have to enable it behind chrome://flags. In my view it's nowhere near as nice as it is on Firefox, with site isolation (Facebook, Google, Twitter, reddit), temporary containers, and a myriad of other add-ons that improve managing them (keyboard shortcuts and transition rules are the two I use the most).
  - xevrem 6y ago
    tab groups are not equivalent to containers. its more like Vivaldi's tab stacks or FF's Tree Tabs. With groups there are no inherent additional security mechanisms in place to prevent cross-group contamination/access. i.e., two different tab groups can access the same site data. containers however are completely isolated from each other. i.e., two different containers have completely different sets of site data.
    - toyg 6y ago
      > no inherent additional security mechanisms in place to prevent cross-group contamination/access Are you saying the biggest advertiser on the planet likely doesn't want to add functionality that could potentially hinder tracking for advertising purposes...? I am shocked, shocked and appalled. /s
smichel17 6y ago
Seems close, but doesn't give me temporary containers like the Firefox add-on with that name.

toyg 6y ago

There is an extension for everything, that’s not the point. Firefox ships it as standard and supports it as such.

minitoar 6y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but I think the thing OP linked is also an addon?
- toyg 6y ago
  It’s an addon from Mozilla itself that just surfaces a bit of UI for advanced controls. The actual feature is already baked in the browser, they’ve just been very conservative about exposing it to everyone.
- marcolussetti 6y ago
  You are not wrong. However it's a first-party extension, as in it's from Mozilla. Debatable how significant that is as a difference.
- pricci 6y ago
  Firefox has the containerization built in. You can use it without the extension but with worst UX. > For advanced users: You can also enable Containers without the Multi-Account Containers extension, by changing some preferences in the Configuration Editor (about:config page). Note that you will get a better user experience by installing the extension but, if you choose not to, you can set privacy.userContext.enabled to true, privacy.userContext.ui.enabled to true and privacy.userContext.longPressBehavior to 2 in about:config. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
input_sh 6y ago
There's a similar thing shipped in Chrome now called Tab Groups, you just have to enable it behind chrome://flags. In my view it's nowhere near as nice as it is on Firefox, with site isolation (Facebook, Google, Twitter, reddit), temporary containers, and a myriad of other add-ons that improve managing them (keyboard shortcuts and transition rules are the two I use the most).
- xevrem 6y ago
  tab groups are not equivalent to containers. its more like Vivaldi's tab stacks or FF's Tree Tabs. With groups there are no inherent additional security mechanisms in place to prevent cross-group contamination/access. i.e., two different tab groups can access the same site data. containers however are completely isolated from each other. i.e., two different containers have completely different sets of site data.
  - toyg 6y ago
    > no inherent additional security mechanisms in place to prevent cross-group contamination/access Are you saying the biggest advertiser on the planet likely doesn't want to add functionality that could potentially hinder tracking for advertising purposes...? I am shocked, shocked and appalled. /s

smichel17 6y ago

Seems close, but doesn't give me temporary containers like the Firefox add-on with that name.