Reviews for Temporary Containers
Temporary Containers by stoically
Review by SilverSage
Rated 5 out of 5
by SilverSage, 6 years agoSuch a great add-on! It's a powerful shot to those companies and individuals that want to exploit our personal information for their monetary gains.
I've been reading and studying the github wiki for a few days to better understand how to get this to work with Mozilla's multi-account containers and just figured out how to get the two extensions to work the way I want. At least I think I have. I have to experiment with it more.
I think you need to understand how regular expressions work to understand how this addon works. As another reviewer wrote, this is not the easiest extension to figure out, even with the links to its github wiki embedded into its configuration tabs, which makes it easy to find the exact information you want. However, the dev stated in response to an earlier review how to reach him via github to ask questions if you have questions about working with the addon and the doc is unclear to you.
I've been reading and studying the github wiki for a few days to better understand how to get this to work with Mozilla's multi-account containers and just figured out how to get the two extensions to work the way I want. At least I think I have. I have to experiment with it more.
I think you need to understand how regular expressions work to understand how this addon works. As another reviewer wrote, this is not the easiest extension to figure out, even with the links to its github wiki embedded into its configuration tabs, which makes it easy to find the exact information you want. However, the dev stated in response to an earlier review how to reach him via github to ask questions if you have questions about working with the addon and the doc is unclear to you.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the nice review! Just wanted to quickly point out that you only need to know regular expressions if you configure Advanced Per-Domain Isolation Patterns, which is really only relevant when your goal is to isolate based on paths or ports, rather than just domains. If you have suggestions on how I can document that more clearly, I'd appreciate if you let me know.
277 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andy, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by adamhybel, a month agoTemporary Containers is a fundamental privacy enhancement for Firefox, automatically isolating your browsing activity to minimize tracking.
- Automatic Isolation: Opens websites, tabs, or clicks in new, disposable containers by default.
- Reduces Tracking: Significantly limits cross-site tracking by preventing cookies and site data from following you across different websites or sessions.
- Effortless Cleanup: Once the last tab in a temporary container is closed, the container and all its stored data (cookies, local storage) are automatically deleted, leaving minimal trace.
- Simple & Automatic: Installs and works seamlessly in the background. Excellent privacy protection right away with smart defaults, yet offers configuration for specific needs.
- Trustworthy & Open Source: Free, open-source, and dedicated to enhancing user privacy without compromises.
That's it! Keep it enabled for a significantly more private browsing experience. Temporary Containers provides a powerful layer of compartmentalization with virtually no user effort required. A huge thank you to the developer(s) for creating and maintaining this essential privacy tool. Highly recommend. - Rated 5 out of 5by Ricky, a month agoworks very well when i have auto fill info or when i just want to have history without persistent cookies
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18885841, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by elitesustenance, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13866866, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tempdirz, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by firuz, 6 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by UsernameTaken017, 6 months agocan you please please please add a dark mode to the settings page? Thanks
- Rated 5 out of 5by djerius, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18609881, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ak, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tucker, a year agoWorks great! It'd be cool if there was a shortcut to convert temporary containers into permanent ones for when you create a new account that you want in a separate container.
- Rated 5 out of 5by drk001, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by eriador, a year agoI love this addon and have been using it for 5 years now, but recently I noticed a weird issue: when I open a few links from my bookmarks in rapid succession, the tabs get stuck and I can't switch tabs anymore or do anything else. It doesn't happen when this addon is disabled.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18433470, a year agoFantastic add-in that I use daily for both personal and work-related needs.
- Rated 5 out of 5by geeknik, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Durg, a year agoRest in peace @stoically. This is a wonderful piece of work. If any eager coders out there can lend a hand in forking this project, I and many others would greatly appreciate that. My use case is to set the isolation behaviour on middle click to "always" so you can continue browsing within a given container, while opening new tabs in new ones.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Benjie, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Valentin Gatien-Baron, 2 years agoWorks great.
Due to "helpful" changes in firefox around the end of 2023, you may want to set `browser.link.force_default_user_context_id_for_external_opens` to true in about:config . Doing this ensures that links opened from other applications doesn't end up in some existing temporary containers. Details here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1874599 . - Rated 5 out of 5by mikamves, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AV, 2 years ago