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.

  • @Nothingwise
    6•1 year ago

    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

  • Carighan Maconar
    1•1 year ago

    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).

  • @MrOtherGuy
    1•1 year 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.