Reviews for Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Firefox Multi-Account Containers by Firefox
Review by bodwyn
Rated 1 out of 5
by bodwyn, 4 years agoAfter yesterday spending ages deleting TMP containers, today I synced a new install of Firefox on a different, new PC. All TMP containers were recreated. Terrible.
Downgraded from 4 to 1 stars.
A week later I have just deleted all the TMP containers 'synced' to my new machine.
Switched off sync in add-on settings. Closed and reopened Ffox, switched on sync in add-on settings and it put all the TMP containers back in.
Oh and it's now synced a website back into a container I had removed it from on both machines.
Clicking "Remember this decision for this site" or manually changing the site list for a container are ignored or overwritten. It keeps asking though as-if there is any function in any of the controls.
WHYYYYY? What is the intended purpose of any of these functions if all it does is sync back over the top undoing everything I do to try to clean up the mess it keeps replicating?
A community of conscientious supporters' time and energy would be better spent on how it /should/ work, why it is important in theory, and improvements - instead of barely getting it to function as intended and repeatedly cleaning up the mess it spreads everywhere.
A mess admittedly created by Temporary Containers but I haven't had that installed for several years but still have several hundreds of TMP containers to delete. Again.
Good theory.
There is a way to remove the hundreds of synced TMP containers created by Temporary Containers extension, but sync just undoes everything you do, so good luck.
Also ! Watch-out! The page jumps around so if you are trying to use it for what it's for: bulk removal, it's easy to delete ones you wanted to keep.
about:preferences#containers
Downgraded from 4 to 1 stars.
A week later I have just deleted all the TMP containers 'synced' to my new machine.
Switched off sync in add-on settings. Closed and reopened Ffox, switched on sync in add-on settings and it put all the TMP containers back in.
Oh and it's now synced a website back into a container I had removed it from on both machines.
Clicking "Remember this decision for this site" or manually changing the site list for a container are ignored or overwritten. It keeps asking though as-if there is any function in any of the controls.
WHYYYYY? What is the intended purpose of any of these functions if all it does is sync back over the top undoing everything I do to try to clean up the mess it keeps replicating?
A community of conscientious supporters' time and energy would be better spent on how it /should/ work, why it is important in theory, and improvements - instead of barely getting it to function as intended and repeatedly cleaning up the mess it spreads everywhere.
A mess admittedly created by Temporary Containers but I haven't had that installed for several years but still have several hundreds of TMP containers to delete. Again.
Good theory.
There is a way to remove the hundreds of synced TMP containers created by Temporary Containers extension, but sync just undoes everything you do, so good luck.
Also ! Watch-out! The page jumps around so if you are trying to use it for what it's for: bulk removal, it's easy to delete ones you wanted to keep.
about:preferences#containers
7,928 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by diegof59, 2 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MOSIMANEWAPULA WHITE TABANE, 10 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15082755, 15 hours agoThis is one of the core plugins I use (in addition to Ublock Origin).
With the account sync, containers are also remembered across different computers as well, so I don't have to set up the containers on every new laptop or reinstall of firefox. Sometimes I mistakenly open a website in the wrong container because I don't always map every single website to a container, but most of the time it's a non-issue.
I'm surprised this is still an add-on and not a core Firefox feature. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18184964, 2 days agoIt doesn't work for me. I cannot create a container where I am logged into Google and simultaneously a container where I'm not logged in.
- Rated 5 out of 5by luca_gohan, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19799825, 3 days agoL'add on correspond parfaitement à ce dont j'ai besoin
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14066212, 4 days agoA must have, cannot imagine my workflow without it anymore.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Benjamin MOREAUX, 5 days agoVery handy for managing multiple M365 or Google tenants.
For me, the only thing missing is the ability to have “private browsing” containers and a way to always open in a container, for example when editing a bookmark. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19794127, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fosslite, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Arie, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14150725, 9 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14541632, 9 days agoRecently it's been impossible to remove a site from the 'managed site list' - after a short period it re-appears. Perhaps its an integration issue with FF sync, or occurred when FF revamping the profiles management.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19787479, 10 days agoExcellent solution to manage multiple cloud tenant.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jawa D. WAI, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Heruta, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fsr, 14 days agoIt's excellent. Very useful for using the same website with different accounts, like your personal and work accounts.
- Rated 4 out of 5by altyspa, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NeoOne, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AjarAdore, 18 days agoQuite handy once you get the hang of it. I love the ability to purge cookies across a container, very useful. Honestly feel like this should be installed by default and enabled via settings.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Сырное, 23 days agoSo, what do we have here? A mockery from Firefox. Let's go back to the proxy form - it expects "type://host:ip", but what do we actually get? No SOCKS5 support. I enter "SOCKS5://ip:port", and it complains about an unsupported record type. And the proxy has been verified as working. It simply wouldn't work with any functional proxy.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mike Breytentebach, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by F33db4ck1, 24 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Queenie, 24 days agol💗ve the concept, the excution is not working so well for me at present - I am not sure where the issue is, whether its in relation to my password keeper or the sites I am accessing (particularly where there is MFA).
Some are just getting caught in a constant login error loop (personally, I think its the sites - Xero, you are the main culprit, and its not unique to this browser or function).
I am new to containers, so still working out how to use them but I desperately want it to work as Chrome profiles have been an ongoing resource vampire.