Do I still need containers? (Bonus: User account switching).
Do I still need containers? (Bonus: User account switching).
I'm using the Firefox Multi-Account Containers Addon to reduce Google/Amazon and others following me around on the internet.
It's also useful to switch between multiple accounts on the same site.
I'm a little fed up with that addon though, mainly because it's impossible to set up a default container for a specific site (main account) while still being able to open that site in another container (alt account) when necessary.
I read something about how Firefox containerizes each tab automatically without any addon so that the Muli-Account Containers are redundant? Is there any truth to this?
How do you handle multiple accounts on websites?
Basically looking to get rid of the Multi-Account Container addon.
Firefox now isolates third-party cookies by default for all users. This means that you only need containers if you want to do something like:
- Logging in to multiple accounts on the same site
- Browsing sites that use cookies to limit how many articles you can read
- Having private tabs in the same window as your regular tabs
If you want to remove the extension but not lose the functionality, it's possible to use about:config to manually enable containers by setting
privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled to true.
You can then edit your containers from about:preferences#containers
I use it for situations where I need to either visually differentiate certain tabs (due to the color) or split their cookies (example: My work has multiple systems that share similar information but in different contexts, this way they cannot have their informations mesh which makes testing easier).
Using containers manually works fine for my purposes. Like when you right-click the newtab-button or click-and-hold it, it will show a popup where you can select a container for the new tab. And there is a section in Options to create new containers.
I kinda think the manual controls don't show up normally, at least they didn't always and you had to enable them from about:config, but maybe that has changed since.