Reviews for Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Firefox Multi-Account Containers by Firefox
Review by Firefox user 15776659
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 15776659, 6 years agoThis add-on is a good idea and I really want to use it. But there's a few things that keep it down for me
1) Lack of wildcard subdomain support is a killer. I read the issue on the subject and it seems there's privacy concerns with that. But the fact is that all the big sites you'd really want to confine to a container use subdomains constantly and often so it makes it frustratingly difficult to actually confine a site like google to its own container.
2) I could probably live with #1 if there was a way to tell the extension to open the current site in a specified container in the future. Right now it appears you have to copy the url, use the extension to make a tab in the desired container, revisit the site and then tell it to stay there. That's a whole lot of steps for something you're going to have to do all the time without wildcard subdomain support.
3) Once you're in a container, all navigation done from websites in that container remain in that container. So for instance, if I put google in a container and then click a link the search result, that link opens in the same container. This completely undermines the point for me, I can't actually use this to keep a site from tracking me unless I go put every single site on the internet in its own box manually. That's entirely too much effort, especially given the difficulty of actually putting a site in its own container (see #2)
I'm giving this 3 stars and will probably keep using it because it is still convenient as a multi-session tool. Going to the same site in multiple sessions is something I have to do for work a lot so it is handy for that. But I'm hoping it evolves because it could be quite a lot more if they made it easier to just completely containerize the sites of your choice.
1) Lack of wildcard subdomain support is a killer. I read the issue on the subject and it seems there's privacy concerns with that. But the fact is that all the big sites you'd really want to confine to a container use subdomains constantly and often so it makes it frustratingly difficult to actually confine a site like google to its own container.
2) I could probably live with #1 if there was a way to tell the extension to open the current site in a specified container in the future. Right now it appears you have to copy the url, use the extension to make a tab in the desired container, revisit the site and then tell it to stay there. That's a whole lot of steps for something you're going to have to do all the time without wildcard subdomain support.
3) Once you're in a container, all navigation done from websites in that container remain in that container. So for instance, if I put google in a container and then click a link the search result, that link opens in the same container. This completely undermines the point for me, I can't actually use this to keep a site from tracking me unless I go put every single site on the internet in its own box manually. That's entirely too much effort, especially given the difficulty of actually putting a site in its own container (see #2)
I'm giving this 3 stars and will probably keep using it because it is still convenient as a multi-session tool. Going to the same site in multiple sessions is something I have to do for work a lot so it is handy for that. But I'm hoping it evolves because it could be quite a lot more if they made it easier to just completely containerize the sites of your choice.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Anónimo, 19 hours agoEs de las mejores ideas que he visto en años. Muy bien hecho!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18823280, a day agoAlmost everytime Firefox have update, All my containers Disappear. WTH.
- Rated 5 out of 5by veblex, 6 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SCS-Technik, 6 days agoThe extension is useful in principle, but it seriously lacks an important feature: there is no easy way to reset the default container or manage saved site assignments.
Once a website is set to always open in a container, it can become very frustrating to undo this behavior. Some URLs keep opening in a container even when I don’t want them to, and there’s no clear option like a “reset” button or a simple “always ask” checkbox.
This leads to a confusing and annoying user experience. Please add a way to reset container assignments or at least prompt the user before forcing a container. - Rated 5 out of 5by Wolfy, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17650807, 11 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by McCryptic, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Carlos SM, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kr33pt0, 14 days agoAnother MUST HAVE extension for me. I don't want websites checking every other website I ever visited. So I gave them all a container to live in.
This is less important now that FireFox offers Cookie Isolation in Privacy settings, but it's still useful as it allows me to have multiple different accounts logged in for the same website at the same time. - Rated 1 out of 5by Undefined_ID, 15 days agoeach new device integrated in Firefox Sync BROKES EVERY CONTAINER PARAMETERS I HAD!! This plug-in is crap!!!
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12893013, 17 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Cláudios, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Neuphorion, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Trauer, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ionian, 20 days agoI can't browse the internet without this extension. It's very useful and reassuring...
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheUncannyPhone, 22 days agoMy most used extention, together with Darkreader. Absolutely love it.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14179354, 25 days agowhy is there no containers for Firefox android????
it's a great extension on desktop but why not android since that's where people would surly need it more on there phone or tablet. why??? - Rated 5 out of 5by Rioldarz, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by bedbug, a month agoit used to work perfectly i could open like 40 containers at a time. now it wont open more then 11 containers for some reasonand when i keep trying to make more it just opens random links?
Also the tab ordering button is a mess. i have containers from 1 -150and i accediantly moved container 17 bertween 82 and 83 so i said sort tabs by containers and now all the containers are a mess. I hope a container sorting thing would be nice