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Do I still need containers? (Bonus: User account switching). (self.firefox)

submitted 2 years ago by wmrch to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] MrOtherGuy 1 points 2 years ago

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.