Reviews for Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Firefox Multi-Account Containers by Firefox
Review by Amazing Mr. X
Rated 2 out of 5
by Amazing Mr. X, 3 years agoThis has a lot of potential, but it's not quite ready for prime time. There's a few specific problems here:
Firstly, add-ons can't communicate with the content of containers. This breaks functionality in most add-ons in really weird and unexpected ways. It'd be nice if we could whitelist add-ons to have access to relevant containers, but most users would probably want all of their add-ons to have full access to all of their containers by default and wouldn't expect them to be functionally blocked as they are.
Secondly, containers don't nicely handle redirects. A lot of sites, especially corporate ones, will redirect through several different domains and subdomains when performing the login process. Containers set to "Limit to Designated Sites" won't operate correctly with these redirects as the redirect pages are not true web pages and don't allow you to sit on them long enough to click the address bar button to always open them in the specified container. This cannot currently be remedied by having foreknowledge of the complete list of redirect sites, as the "Limit to Designated Sites" list cannot be manually edited or appended outside of the limited address bar button method.
Thirdly, The VPN integration isn't particularly secure in premise. Being a per-container opt-in means that entities snooping on the line will immediately see that there's something suspiciously different in the data packets coming from your protected containers compared to the rest of your typical https encrypted traffic. This makes isolating these packets, on the fly, infuriatingly trivial. Making this a per-container opt-out would all but eliminate this problem, as attackers would have to have foreknowledge of the originating container to do this effectively in all circumstances. It'd also be great to see connection protocol options ( OpenVPN, WireGuard, etc. ) as well as other VPN provider options as that'd make it that much harder to try and figure out what's going on in the encrypted container traffic and would better protect Mozilla VPN itself. Right now it's technically more secure to not use the VPN feature at all.
I think the basic idea here is really excellent, but these problems really do drag it down. Something made and maintained by Mozilla shouldn't have this many problems. I still think this is potentially useful to certain technical professionals trying to isolate their sensitive internal sites from other web apps, but the average user is going to have too many headaches to be able to use this effectively.
If you know what you're doing, keep the above points in-mind and go ahead and give it a try.
Anyone else? Hope Mozilla addresses some of these issues in a future release. I'll update my review if they do.
Firstly, add-ons can't communicate with the content of containers. This breaks functionality in most add-ons in really weird and unexpected ways. It'd be nice if we could whitelist add-ons to have access to relevant containers, but most users would probably want all of their add-ons to have full access to all of their containers by default and wouldn't expect them to be functionally blocked as they are.
Secondly, containers don't nicely handle redirects. A lot of sites, especially corporate ones, will redirect through several different domains and subdomains when performing the login process. Containers set to "Limit to Designated Sites" won't operate correctly with these redirects as the redirect pages are not true web pages and don't allow you to sit on them long enough to click the address bar button to always open them in the specified container. This cannot currently be remedied by having foreknowledge of the complete list of redirect sites, as the "Limit to Designated Sites" list cannot be manually edited or appended outside of the limited address bar button method.
Thirdly, The VPN integration isn't particularly secure in premise. Being a per-container opt-in means that entities snooping on the line will immediately see that there's something suspiciously different in the data packets coming from your protected containers compared to the rest of your typical https encrypted traffic. This makes isolating these packets, on the fly, infuriatingly trivial. Making this a per-container opt-out would all but eliminate this problem, as attackers would have to have foreknowledge of the originating container to do this effectively in all circumstances. It'd also be great to see connection protocol options ( OpenVPN, WireGuard, etc. ) as well as other VPN provider options as that'd make it that much harder to try and figure out what's going on in the encrypted container traffic and would better protect Mozilla VPN itself. Right now it's technically more secure to not use the VPN feature at all.
I think the basic idea here is really excellent, but these problems really do drag it down. Something made and maintained by Mozilla shouldn't have this many problems. I still think this is potentially useful to certain technical professionals trying to isolate their sensitive internal sites from other web apps, but the average user is going to have too many headaches to be able to use this effectively.
If you know what you're doing, keep the above points in-mind and go ahead and give it a try.
Anyone else? Hope Mozilla addresses some of these issues in a future release. I'll update my review if they do.
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Screw you Firefox. And no, don't dare to hide behind 'oopsie, bug'. This infantile behaviour shouldn't have been in here in the first place. Not even once. - Rated 5 out of 5by Nopanun Laochunhanun, 20 hours ago
- This extension right here is the smoking gun that convinced me to switch over to firefox, it's insanely useful and a great quality of life tool to manage multiple accounts and no other browser has this. I can now open (for example) YouTube with 2 different accounts or in a new container without an account. They can't track between each other, so it is of course a gigantic win for privacy too.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by VOIIIXI, 2 days agoHonestly the best add-on in Firefox! It's the main reason why I use Firefox on PC. What makes it so unique and amazing is that I can for example have google search in a separate container without signing so I can search privately while having YouTube and Keep and other google sites signed in with my own account or any account I want, no other browser does this, all other browsers force every google site to be signed in with the same google account which makes it if you wanna use YouTube you have to be signed in to google search too which is terrible for privacy. And I can have any site I want open in a separate container which eliminates cross-site tracking completely, a more guaranteed way than using Enhanced Tracking Protection and uBlock Origin which are also fantastic and important to have enabled for privacy as well. This is an absolutely brilliant add-on. THANK YOU MOZILLA!!
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- Rated 5 out of 5by ator-dev, 3 days agoThere is currently a bug with the popup, where you have to click "Done" every time, which should be fixed soon (see issue 2813 on the mozilla/multi-account-containers GitHub repository).
This extension has always been helpful so I won't rank it down just for one mistake :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14111619, 3 days ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19540316, 3 days agoNags you to write a review EVERY TIME YOU OPEN A CONTAINER. Absolutely nuts.
- Rated 1 out of 5by LHamster, 3 days agoBullshit! Its such a great tool but after 100 panels you get a pop-up that can not be disabled!!!
- Rated 1 out of 5by maple, 3 days ago"100 panels opened" prompt cannot be removed and will open even if you have clicked the share and review buttons
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19534584, 3 days agoGreat extension! The only issue I’ve encountered is with syncing — it seems to have a bug. I never choose “Always remember to open this site with,” yet it keeps automatically assigning websites. Once I disabled Sync, the issue disappeared. I wish there were an option to turn off this feature entirely. Aside from that, it works perfectly!
- Rated 1 out of 5by DSchumacher, 3 days agoFantastic, 5-star add-on.. until you've opened 100 tabs. Then you need to click out of their review & share prompt each time you open.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leo, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18921829, 4 days agoI opened 100 tabs and it asks me to leave review and won't go away. Every time i click on it it greets me with 100 tabs again. Okay, here is your review, all usefulness of this extension is severely ruined by this constant annoyance.