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Oddly enough I thought Firefox had that a few years ago. I forget what I used - maybe a Mozilla extension? - but it even colour-coded tabs. Am I wrong? Was it

Oddly enough I thought Firefox had that a few years ago. I forget what I used - maybe a Mozilla extension? - but it even colour-coded tabs. Am I wrong? Was it unofficial? A hack?

notatoad 3mo ago
> For almost a decade, many of you have relied on our Multi-Account Containers extension to keep work, personal, and privacy-sensitive browsing separate without needing multiple browsers or profiles. > We’ve heard your feedback and understood the value you find in that separation. Now, we’re bringing the power of the Multi-Account Containers extension directly into the heart of Firefox for all to benefit from.
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NoGravitas 3mo ago
It was an official extension, distributed separately from Firefox, but it was so ubiquitous and a dependency for so many other Firefox extensions, that it would be unusual to not have it installed.
Alifatisk 3mo ago
Firefox multicontainers I think it is
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zache6 3mo ago
The article mentions this extension; it seems like what you're describing: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
- ars 3mo ago
  I have containers on Firefox, and I do NOT have this extension installed.
  - dblohm7 3mo ago
    They've been available natively on Nightly with some basic UI support since they were first implemented a decade ago. Some other pre-release builds have them too but it's been too long and I cannot remember which ones did or didn't.
    - Izkata 3mo ago
      I don't use Nightly and I've been using containers for I think that long without any extension for it. Edit: looks like I enabled them manually and couldn't remember/find it, it's in about:config under the name "privacy.userContext" instead of "containers".
      - em-bee 3mo ago
        as far as i remember, the low level container functionality was always in the core browser. what the extension adds is the UI to manage containers. with this change it appears the UI is merged back into the core browser.
        Izkata 3mo ago
        It's been there just as long, turn it on with "privacy.userContext.ui.enabled" and manage them at "about:preferences#containers" The addons added extra functionality but everything they've listed in this announcement is already there. Sounds like they're just flipping these two flags by default.
  - MaKey 3mo ago
    The Facebok Container extension also makes containers available.
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Oddly enough I thought Firefox had that a few years ago. I forget what I used - maybe a Mozilla extension? - but it even colour-coded tabs. Am I wrong? Was it unofficial? A hack?

notatoad 3mo ago

> For almost a decade, many of you have relied on our Multi-Account Containers extension to keep work, personal, and privacy-sensitive browsing separate without needing multiple browsers or profiles. > We’ve heard your feedback and understood the value you find in that separation. Now, we’re bringing the power of the Multi-Account Containers extension directly into the heart of Firefox for all to benefit from.

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NoGravitas 3mo ago

It was an official extension, distributed separately from Firefox, but it was so ubiquitous and a dependency for so many other Firefox extensions, that it would be unusual to not have it installed.

Alifatisk 3mo ago

Firefox multicontainers I think it is

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zache6 3mo ago

The article mentions this extension; it seems like what you're describing: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

ars 3mo ago
I have containers on Firefox, and I do NOT have this extension installed.
- dblohm7 3mo ago
  They've been available natively on Nightly with some basic UI support since they were first implemented a decade ago. Some other pre-release builds have them too but it's been too long and I cannot remember which ones did or didn't.
  - Izkata 3mo ago
    I don't use Nightly and I've been using containers for I think that long without any extension for it. Edit: looks like I enabled them manually and couldn't remember/find it, it's in about:config under the name "privacy.userContext" instead of "containers".
    - em-bee 3mo ago
      as far as i remember, the low level container functionality was always in the core browser. what the extension adds is the UI to manage containers. with this change it appears the UI is merged back into the core browser.
      - Izkata 3mo ago
        It's been there just as long, turn it on with "privacy.userContext.ui.enabled" and manage them at "about:preferences#containers" The addons added extra functionality but everything they've listed in this announcement is already there. Sounds like they're just flipping these two flags by default.
- MaKey 3mo ago
  The Facebok Container extension also makes containers available.

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