Reviews for Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Firefox Multi-Account Containers by Mozilla Firefox
7,222 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Craig A., 5 years agoWonderful tool for keeping your browsing efforts separated and fenced off from nosy Bots.
Seems like I had to do three things to make reopening in the right container "auto-magic";
Open a new tab in the "Amazon" container (long click on '+'). Past the URL into the new Amazon container tab.
Click the Multi-container symbol and select "Always open in Amazon"
Open a non-container tab and paste the URL, select "Remember my decision to always open in Amazon container"
After all 3 of these steps are done, the URL will always open in the selected container.
Once these 3 steps are done you're all set. However there are currently 2 things missing from this and other "container tools";
1. Easy Export/backup/restore/Import of container rules. It would be lovely if this capability were available in CSV and JSON formats. [Necessary for setup of multiple machines without Sync, and off-site storage of config(s)]
2. An easy way to Edit container rules beyond just delete and start over. This will allow quickly changing custom behavior(s). #1 might take this issue toward "feasible".
I put my own website (with multiple applications) in a container to keep nosy bots out of my site cookie jars.
Great idea, love having this feature. I'm tired of having everything I looked at on Amazon.com show up in my Facebook feed. This is a win for privacy and giving browser experience control back to the user. No other browser appears to have these tools, just Firefox. - Rated 5 out of 5by Doncho Gunchev, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14709522, 5 years agoReally fantastic add-on that boosts productivity. Allows you to compartmentalize your work tabs, social media tabs, banking tabs, whatever. This add-on keeps the cookies separate between tabs of different types, too, which is really great - I can have a Google Work tab open (with me logged in at work), and a Google Personal tab open with my Google Drive handy.
Importantly, you can specify that certain websites should always open in a certain type of tab (e.g., Asana should always open in a Work tab), which is invaluable for keeping things separate.
I also like the ability to sort tabs by container (move all your Banking tabs next to each other, for example), as well as the ability to reopen all tabs of a certain type in a different window. You can also create custom categories, etc. If you're anything like me, you have a million different tabs, and being able to pull out all my Work tabs all at once is a huge lifesaver for me organizationally.
Well done, Mozilla! -A big fan. - Rated 5 out of 5by roadmouse, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15138414, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15138313, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14507636, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15136652, 5 years agoThat's an excellent idea, but it can be way better. First of all, it should be incorpored to the browser as a feature, including the mobile browser. Second, the settings should be sync on Firefox Account Sync. Another great feature would be the possibilitie of incorporate domains to a container (ex.: add just google.com instead of keep.google.com, calendar.google.com, etc etc). Please, Mozilla, keep working on it!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15132274, 5 years agoI love my wife I told her I did know anything and really I did not dumb by know means but she spent a whole teaching her self and it got to the point I could do nothing or see nothing I know something was wrong so I'm a mth and a half I taught my self and locked her she super pissed but I love you Mamas
- Rated 4 out of 5by e_g1gor, 5 years agoExcellent idea, but i can't actually use it without analogue in mobile browser.
- Rated 4 out of 5by BluePod, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Terrapin, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zdzich, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15130722, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15067082, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by barnabybones, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15129571, 5 years agoIt would be great if we could, per container, delete cookies/cache/history.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15126924, 5 years agoIt is a nice idea. Unfortunately it does NOT work. If I sign into gmail in my "Personal" container, the session extends to all other containers. If I open youtube in its own container, I'll be already logged in my Google account. If I log out, it'll log me out from all containers.
- Rated 1 out of 5by dotnetrob, 5 years agoThis is one of the greatest Firefox extensions. But the fact is has no way to sync between browsers/pc's or export/import settings, makes it completely worthless.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThe add-on now supports sync! https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/02/06/multi-account-containers-sync/ - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15126418, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13796536, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15123722, 5 years ago