So I’ve been using Firefox’s container function for a while now and recently discovered the multi account container extension. What does this add over the built in containers? I’ve seen a lot of people say they need multi account containers but are disappointed that it’s an extension so I’m curious what it adds.
What do you mean “built-in containers”? AFAIK, there’s no way to interact with the built-in containers without an extension to expose it. That was at least true when it launched (e.g. the Facebook container extension was awesome), and I’ve been using the multi-account containers extension ever since.
Here’s how I use it:
- no container - no logins at all
- “personal” - my email and related things
- “work” - work email and related things
- “shopping” - online stores
- “financial” - banking and investments
And so on. Each group has limited access to cookies to scrape. I also have accounts at the same service in different containers and can have them side-by-side.
If this is now built-in, awesome! But I was under the impression that you need some form of extension to access it.
I don’t have nay extension installed that interacts with containers. In settings I enabled container tabs under general and if I right click on the new tab button I can open a container tab, so it appears to be built in. I can also create custom containers for example I have one for google services. So if I understand you correctly the extension doesn’t do anything else special?
@RmDebArc_5 I love containers, that’s one of Firefox’s strong points IMHO, I use it *a lot*. My main complaint is that it doesn’t handle domains, which is a pain for example with Medium.com, Google.com etc. websites, you have to manually add them all 😓
