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container sync has been a thing for a while, but you have to enable it: https://i.imgur.com/UBj3TjW.png https://i.imgur.com/UBj3TjW.png

fooqux 4y ago
Where do you find that at? I just looked in both the Sync settings and Container settings and I do not see that setting.
- thomastjeffery 4y ago
  It might be always-enabled now. Either way, containers sync is a separate event that can't be triggered manually.
- herklwlkjwher 4y ago
  https://i.imgur.com/hMmnlB7.png https://i.imgur.com/hMmnlB7.png
  - j16sdiz 4y ago
    This is a setting under the extension page and is not searchable from firefox settings. Was expecting it under the standard account sync setting page.
  - fooqux 4y ago
    Thank you, I didn't realize it had additional settings here.
thomastjeffery 4y ago
Yes, and the flow is as I described. 1. Install Firefox. 2. Log in to fresh Firefox instance. 3. Let browser-wide sync happen. 4. Sync installs multi-account containers addon. 5. Four empty default containers are created. New user welcome flow is active. 6. Sign in to multi-account containers addon. Wait for container sync to do its thing. 7. Containers sync invisibly in the background. - Default containers that you deleted before (in the instance you are syncing from) still exist in this fresh instance. - New user welcome UX is still active.
- croutonwagon 4y ago
  Also....for me. At one point a janked up Firefox instlal on 8.1 created something like 100+ duplicates of some of my containers, specifically ones names TEst and Test2. So each time i setup a new browser and sync then, i have to go through and manually delete all the duplicates. They dont re-appear once deleted and changes still sync (ie: if i add a URL rule to always open in x container) but holy crap is it annoying.
  - freddie_mercury 4y ago
    This happened to me many, many times. Luckily I'm able to track down containers.json and remove them that way. It also would never sync to my laptop for some reason? The overall bad syncing experience was the main reason I stopped using them.
    - croutonwagon 4y ago
      ya know.....it never occured to me to really track down the json file. Even though i totally know firefox really loves making use of them. Even had a sanitize script at one point that would kill any session on my work computer nightly and scrub my history without logging me out of sync account at a previous job. I dont setup a new machine all that often that I care too much. I figured it was a misconfigured cloud DB point, that at best I could get Mozilla to clean up and let me re-sync, but even then didnt bother to open a ticket.
  - kaba0 4y ago
    There is a json file with the containers, I also had a similar problem (temporary containers extension “leaked” containers and they got synced) but after having found that file (I believe it was containers.json or something similar) and manually removing from that all the bad elements I managed to get those out from syncing it to new instances.
- Flimm 4y ago
  Also, the order of the containers isn't synced properly. When you have a few containers, it's helpful to have container configured in the same order on every device you use.
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fooqux 4y ago

Where do you find that at? I just looked in both the Sync settings and Container settings and I do not see that setting.

thomastjeffery 4y ago
It might be always-enabled now. Either way, containers sync is a separate event that can't be triggered manually.
herklwlkjwher 4y ago
https://i.imgur.com/hMmnlB7.png https://i.imgur.com/hMmnlB7.png
- j16sdiz 4y ago
  This is a setting under the extension page and is not searchable from firefox settings. Was expecting it under the standard account sync setting page.
- fooqux 4y ago
  Thank you, I didn't realize it had additional settings here.

thomastjeffery 4y ago

Yes, and the flow is as I described. 1. Install Firefox. 2. Log in to fresh Firefox instance. 3. Let browser-wide sync happen. 4. Sync installs multi-account containers addon. 5. Four empty default containers are created. New user welcome flow is active. 6. Sign in to multi-account containers addon. Wait for container sync to do its thing. 7. Containers sync invisibly in the background. - Default containers that you deleted before (in the instance you are syncing from) still exist in this fresh instance. - New user welcome UX is still active.

croutonwagon 4y ago
Also....for me. At one point a janked up Firefox instlal on 8.1 created something like 100+ duplicates of some of my containers, specifically ones names TEst and Test2. So each time i setup a new browser and sync then, i have to go through and manually delete all the duplicates. They dont re-appear once deleted and changes still sync (ie: if i add a URL rule to always open in x container) but holy crap is it annoying.
- freddie_mercury 4y ago
  This happened to me many, many times. Luckily I'm able to track down containers.json and remove them that way. It also would never sync to my laptop for some reason? The overall bad syncing experience was the main reason I stopped using them.
  - croutonwagon 4y ago
    ya know.....it never occured to me to really track down the json file. Even though i totally know firefox really loves making use of them. Even had a sanitize script at one point that would kill any session on my work computer nightly and scrub my history without logging me out of sync account at a previous job. I dont setup a new machine all that often that I care too much. I figured it was a misconfigured cloud DB point, that at best I could get Mozilla to clean up and let me re-sync, but even then didnt bother to open a ticket.
- kaba0 4y ago
  There is a json file with the containers, I also had a similar problem (temporary containers extension “leaked” containers and they got synced) but after having found that file (I believe it was containers.json or something similar) and manually removing from that all the bad elements I managed to get those out from syncing it to new instances.
Flimm 4y ago
Also, the order of the containers isn't synced properly. When you have a few containers, it's helpful to have container configured in the same order on every device you use.

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