Are they good for anything other than logging into two accounts? Are they useless beyond that?
All of the websites that I frequently log in to are all containerized with a bright pink color; this helps to prevent phishing. I also use the “Temporary Containers” add-on. This turns each and every website I visit that isn’t in a container into, essentially, its own private browsing window. This means that whenever the tab is closed, the cookies are immediately cleared (instead of being cleared when you exit the browser).
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So you re login every time you visit a website? Sounds like a massive hassle, is the benefit worth it? What is the benefit of all that extra timely admin
I’m not sure if it could be used to log into two different accounts on the same service unless you’re able to separate them by subdomain (like www.reddit.com vs old.reddit.com). I still find it very useful though. For example, I want to be logged into youtube.com but do not want my searches on google.com to accidentally be tied to my account, so they’re in separate containers.
(Browser fingerprinting is a thing and if I’m searching Google and watching YouTube at the same time, they can see I’m on the same VPN IP address. So it doesn’t guarantee anonymity, but that’s the trade-off you make for the convenience of using containers. When I want to make more private searches I’d use another browser, ideally the Tor Browser.)
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I store frequent log ins the “Manage Exceptions” settings. Also since as I use a password browser extension, I find logging in to non-frequented websites pretty quick (even with having to open Aegis).
From the offical docs:
With the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension, you can…
Sign in to two different accounts on the same site (for example, you could sign in to work email and home email in two different Container tabs.
Keep different kinds of browsing far away from each other (for example, you might use one Container tab for managing your Checking Account and a different Container tab for searching for new songs by your favorite band)
Avoid leaving social-network footprints all over the web (for example, you could use a Container tab for signing in to a social network, and use a different tab for visiting online news sites, keeping your social identity separate from tracking scripts on news sites)
Protect your browsing activity in individual Containers using Mozilla VPN, so you can shop while travelling abroad but check your bank account from a server in your home country.
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While it is a useful feature, it serves a different prupose: in-session isolation (containers) versus inter-session cleanup with selective persistence (auto-delete on browser close with exemptions)
Firefox let’s some thirdparty cookies and connections pass to not break some features like for example “sign in with”.
So every website that has a sign in with Google can be seen by Google and tracked to your Google account.
If you put Google in its own container its more difficult for Google to track that, since they don’t have access to their cookies on other containers.
Mozilla has the Facebook container extension which does that a little better and also has more explainers.
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Mostly useful to visit a website you are logged in privately without the hassle of going into a Private Tab
For users of “Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed” + “Manage Exceptions”:
Use the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension to avoid cross-site tracking.
When setting a cookie-clearing exception in Firefox it currently also disables cookie partitioning (Total Cookie Protection) for that same domain. As a result, users who intend only to preserve cookies for convenience may inadvertently weaken their privacy by allowing cross-site tracking that would otherwise be blocked by partitioning.
See 1767271 - Add a way for cookie-clearing exceptions to not also affect cookie partitioning
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I have 2 questions for containers:
1- You have to install an extension? Meaning it would increase fingerprintability, correct?
2- If you want to open multiple tabs at once, is it possible to open them all in individual containers or you have to do that manually for each website you visit?
- Yes, you have to install the extension. Does it increase fingerprint? Not sure if use of the extension gets reported or can be collected.
- You have an opportunity to associate web sites with certain containers. If you open a bunch of bookmarks that are in containers, they will open up as you configured them.
I think that is your question on #2.
Right clicking a URL adds a context menu to open that link in any of your current containers.
Install the addon and try it out.
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I don’t think this extension is needed. I never downloaded such extension and I can use it.I don’t think this extension is needed. I never downloaded such extension and I can use it.
If you need Brave-like “Forget me when I close the website”,you could use it. For manual containers, there is no need. Sorry for the confusion, I though it was reffering to the Mozilla-made containers extensions (that used to be standalone I think)