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Recommend: 1. Sign up to Firefox sync 2. Install the Multi-Account Containers extension. Create containers to partition your identities. Eg: Banking, Shopping

Recommend: 1. Sign up to Firefox sync 2. Install the Multi-Account Containers extension. Create containers to partition your identities. Eg: Banking, Shopping different Gmail accounts, different AWS console accounts etc 3. Install the "containerise" extension so you can create URL rules that automatically open sites in the correct container. (It can match URL regexes, allowing you to identify different accounts on each platform. Eg: on gmail, 'mail.google.com/mail/u/?authuser=hunter12@gmail.com', which you can bookmark as "Hunter12 Gmail") 4. Kagi search 5. uBlock Origin extension 6. Simple Tab Groups extension

clircle 4y ago
What's the advantage of using multi-account containers and partitioned identities?
- phaedrix 4y ago
  If you have multiple awa accounts it's a godsend.
- raffraffraff 4y ago
  Typo in my text, can't correct it now. But you can simultaneously log into multiple Google accounts by putting each into a different container. These containers are mapped onto tabs. So in one tab, one Gmail account, in another tab, another Gmail account. And it's not just Gmail it's anything that you might want multiple accounts in (eg: AWS) The containerise extension is the cherry on top. Once you've set up your containers, it can recognise URL patterns so you can set up bookmarks for each Gmail account and they'll automatically open in the correct container, already logged in.
  - clircle 4y ago
    Interesting. I don't have multiple accounts.
trompetenaccoun 4y ago
7. Don't use any add-ons for sensitive identities like the Banking one.
- ydant 4y ago
  You can't (as far as I can tell, and I'd love to be wrong!) set add-ons to only activate on certain containers in Firefox. You have to setup separate profiles, which are fully isolated browser contexts and only install extensions you want into each profile. It's the biggest thing that I like better about Chrome - the profiles are seamless and easy to switch and I can set up different profiles with different extensions. Containers work "ok" for Firefox for me, but for my biggest use-cases, like splitting work, personal, banking, shopping (e.g. where "Honey" or "Rakuten" are allowed to live) into different contexts with different extensions - Chrome is so much more seamless/effortless.
  - raffraffraff 4y ago
    I think that private tabs are the ones where you can set extensions to not run
wolongong942 4y ago
In the wake of Lastpass there were some criticism of Firefox's password storage security IIRC, might look into that before using sync for passwords.
- raffraffraff 4y ago
  I disable all password storage in the browser and use a password manager. It's just used to sync extensions, bookmarks and open tabs
jaywalk 4y ago
Why is your email address my password? Wtf?
rrishi 4y ago
Thank you for the suggestions. I have got uBlock origin and will look into Multi-Account Container pretty soon too!
hosteur 4y ago
Would love to actually be able to use Firefox Sync. But I refuse when I cannot self host it. It seems it is not actually possible to self host it.
- cx0der 4y ago
  Looks like you can with some extra steps https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
  - hosteur 4y ago
    Yes, I am aware of the project. However, it seems from this issue that self-hosting Firefox Sync is not actually documented or supported: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/681 https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/68...

clircle 4y ago

What's the advantage of using multi-account containers and partitioned identities?

phaedrix 4y ago
If you have multiple awa accounts it's a godsend.
raffraffraff 4y ago
Typo in my text, can't correct it now. But you can simultaneously log into multiple Google accounts by putting each into a different container. These containers are mapped onto tabs. So in one tab, one Gmail account, in another tab, another Gmail account. And it's not just Gmail it's anything that you might want multiple accounts in (eg: AWS) The containerise extension is the cherry on top. Once you've set up your containers, it can recognise URL patterns so you can set up bookmarks for each Gmail account and they'll automatically open in the correct container, already logged in.
- clircle 4y ago
  Interesting. I don't have multiple accounts.

trompetenaccoun 4y ago

7. Don't use any add-ons for sensitive identities like the Banking one.

ydant 4y ago
You can't (as far as I can tell, and I'd love to be wrong!) set add-ons to only activate on certain containers in Firefox. You have to setup separate profiles, which are fully isolated browser contexts and only install extensions you want into each profile. It's the biggest thing that I like better about Chrome - the profiles are seamless and easy to switch and I can set up different profiles with different extensions. Containers work "ok" for Firefox for me, but for my biggest use-cases, like splitting work, personal, banking, shopping (e.g. where "Honey" or "Rakuten" are allowed to live) into different contexts with different extensions - Chrome is so much more seamless/effortless.
- raffraffraff 4y ago
  I think that private tabs are the ones where you can set extensions to not run

wolongong942 4y ago

In the wake of Lastpass there were some criticism of Firefox's password storage security IIRC, might look into that before using sync for passwords.

raffraffraff 4y ago
I disable all password storage in the browser and use a password manager. It's just used to sync extensions, bookmarks and open tabs

jaywalk 4y ago

Why is your email address my password? Wtf?

rrishi 4y ago

Thank you for the suggestions. I have got uBlock origin and will look into Multi-Account Container pretty soon too!

hosteur 4y ago

Would love to actually be able to use Firefox Sync. But I refuse when I cannot self host it. It seems it is not actually possible to self host it.

cx0der 4y ago
Looks like you can with some extra steps https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
- hosteur 4y ago
  Yes, I am aware of the project. However, it seems from this issue that self-hosting Firefox Sync is not actually documented or supported: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/681 https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/68...