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Agreed, containers are great. I love them and wish they were a standard feature across browsers. Still some room for improvement though. It would be nice if the

Agreed, containers are great. I love them and wish they were a standard feature across browsers. Still some room for improvement though. It would be nice if the containers acted like an entirely different instance of a browser, with different settings, history, extensions, etc. With the current design it's still possible to accidently leaked details across containers by visiting something in the wrong one if you havent set up exclusive browsing for a particular site, and history is shared across containers. Would be nice to be able to export container settings as well as a lot of work can go into setting them up.

rroot 4y ago
You get this functionality by using Firefox profiles. It's a separate browser instance with completely separated history, extension, ... It doesn't work like containers though, you can't open a new tab in a new profile.
- commoner 4y ago
  If you use Firefox profiles regularly, you might enjoy the Profile Switcher for Firefox add-on, which provides a Chrome-like interface for loading and managing profiles in Firefox: - Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switcher/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc... - Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher
  - _odey 4y ago
    Please access this link and generate interest around Firefox natively implementing the same UI/UX for Profiles as Chrome has right now: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/shortcut-for-different-profiles/idi-p/707 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/shortcut-for-different-... Also there's this bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542189 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542189 Hopefully someone will listen to feedback, this time...
    - happymellon 4y ago
      I've stated this so many times for decades now. Profile support is something that I would literally pay towards funding support but there isnt a good way of setting up a bounty which I'll pay £100 into each month until the bounty is large enough to motivate someone to do it.
    - hendersoon 4y ago
      Considering Thunderbird still doesn't support a multi-line message list after 19 years[1], if you need that feature I suggest using the addon linked earlier because Mozilla does not move quickly. 1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945
- colordrops 4y ago
  I have 10 different containers set up - profiles are too clunky for this.

rroot 4y ago

You get this functionality by using Firefox profiles. It's a separate browser instance with completely separated history, extension, ... It doesn't work like containers though, you can't open a new tab in a new profile.

commoner 4y ago
If you use Firefox profiles regularly, you might enjoy the Profile Switcher for Firefox add-on, which provides a Chrome-like interface for loading and managing profiles in Firefox: - Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switcher/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc... - Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher
- _odey 4y ago
  Please access this link and generate interest around Firefox natively implementing the same UI/UX for Profiles as Chrome has right now: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/shortcut-for-different-profiles/idi-p/707 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/shortcut-for-different-... Also there's this bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542189 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542189 Hopefully someone will listen to feedback, this time...
  - happymellon 4y ago
    I've stated this so many times for decades now. Profile support is something that I would literally pay towards funding support but there isnt a good way of setting up a bounty which I'll pay £100 into each month until the bounty is large enough to motivate someone to do it.
  - hendersoon 4y ago
    Considering Thunderbird still doesn't support a multi-line message list after 19 years[1], if you need that feature I suggest using the addon linked earlier because Mozilla does not move quickly. 1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945
colordrops 4y ago
I have 10 different containers set up - profiles are too clunky for this.