Firefox Multi-Account Containers

“With Multi-account containers I get to choose which tabs use the proxy :)”

“Firefox's MAC seems like it's not quite as isolated as a separate profile”

“This is great, previously I was just using every wireguard tunnel as a traditional interface”

“Really useful if you route all of your traffic through a VPN by default”

“The containers extension has been languishing for years now.”

“Within the Multi-Account Containers extension (Mozilla's extension) you can setup this, so I guess they will implement it also.”

“they are barebones and there is so much more that could be added”

“MAC is a great add-on and far head of any browser out there in this regard”

“the feature has been sort of "contained" for far too long and not been made flexible/usable enough.”

“I have a container for finances, a container for shopping, a container for untrusted, etc... I can't imagine restarting Firefox every time I wanted to transition between those.”

“In a few seconds, I had a doz temp containers to keep the sessions alive and isolated”

“The boundary is hard where I need it (the privacy protections) but soft for make workflows easier.”

“This has been one of my use cases for the Multi-Account Containers extension for some time now.”

“Containers I like using for those hard privacy walls of pinned sites to avoid more "personalized" ads.”

“the real killer feature of containers is that it becomes a breeze to use the same service with different accounts & identities”

“MAC + Temporary Containers extension is how web browsing should be handled by default imo”

“It is nice to keep banking in one container, Amazon in its own container, social media in its own, and so on.”

“I do this a lot and I have dedicated containers for each customer so I can easily switch with out having to log out and in”

“It allows me to access different networks (that might only be reachable via jumphosts or similar) from the same browser.”

“This is (or was, before I switched to Vivaldi) the killer feature of Firefox containers for me.”

“For me the big use case is having different Google accounts active in one window.”

“Use Multi-Account Containers plugin, where you define which domain should be opened in which container.”

“we can achieve security through extensions like noscript or ublock origin or firefox containers”

“it is more a workaround than a complete replacement”

“you can achieve the same results with Firefox containers without a specific extension like mine if you configure it manually”

“I love the containers too. My current use case is to keep my YouTube account separate from my Google one.”

“Firefox multicontainers are pretty cool. But it's an advanced process that most people wouldn't do or do correctly.”

“Privacy Badger and Firefox Multi-Account Containers, which I suppose is the three I really need.”

“you have to add every Meta domain into that container manually”

“one for email, one for banking, one for shopping, one for socials”

“Containers are also very useful indeed; I have to log into various different Google and Github accounts and can do this in a single browser window.”

“tab containers and Facebook containers are optional addons that are well integrated into the browser”

“Firefox has a great feature for this: multi-account containers. The UI is trash, but it's usable.”

“eventually they actually got in my way just as profiles do”

“It’s so odd that there is no way to edit the list of sites manually.”

“My biggest struggle with containers is that I constantly accidentally shift out of them without noticing.”

“I really like the "Always Open Site in Container" along with "Limit to Designated Sites" once it's set up”

“Today is the day I no longer need to open a private browser to manage Entra.”

“containers are magic, because I can be logged into eg 2-3 different microsoft accounts simultaneously in the same window”

“I quite like the multi containers extension in Firefox for managing bazillion AWS accounts”