2d ago

What's the use-case for Firefox containers?

Or what do you use them for? Isn't it now quite easy for websites to track outside of just cookies?

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I have anything google, anything shopping, anything banking in separate containers.
I also have separate containers for multiple accounts on Github/Gitlab
addendum: what's also neat is that I can define a page to always be opened in a specific container. so when I just open new tab and open YouTube, its already in the Google container
For anyone in IT who works in multiple tenants or with multiple clients that use the same site(s), it's an absolute gamechanger
- This
Separate accounts for the same site is just about the only use case nowadays since Firefox started implementing isolation per-site.
Combined with container bookmarks extension, it becomes really handy.
Amazon, i can login as my personal or my company account based on the bookmark I click
Social media, different profiles straight in with their bookmark
I manage a few things for my mother, utilities and such, keeping her logins already logged in in a bookmark folder is handy.
Essentially, any time you need to segregate logins / accounts.
- Super reasonable. I should get with the times and start using it too...
  
  As i say, it really comes into its own with the container bookmarks addon
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-bookmarks/
  It can be a bit of pain to get setup with containers for bookmarking, but if you get stuck feel free to shout
As already mentioned. It's really handy for keeping accounts separate. It's also very handy when it comes to keep tracking separated. Keeping your google sites in one container, your FB in another, your bank in another an so forth...
Maybe a niche use case, it's extremely handy for testing an application with multiple users. Everyone else at work seems to be keeping 3 browsers open at all times just for the separate logins.
I use them quite heavily in combination with Cookie Autodelete. I then create a separate profile for each surveillance capitalist service I work with. So for example, here's my list of containers:
Every time I visit one of these sites, Firefox opens them in the respective container, and the cookies they create are isolated to that container. When I'm in the LinkedIn container, Cookie AutoDelete nukes every cookie that isn't from LinkedIn (including Google, GitHub, etc.). When I'm not in any container, all cookies are deleted everywhere.
Basically it's a nice way to leverage Cookie Autodelete without having to whitelist Big Tech for all my browsing.

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