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Comment by adrianrocamora | Hacker News Reader

FF with Multi Account Containers is heaven

FF itself since Quantum has been heaven for me personally.

I've always used FF and Chrome, flipping back and forth as Chrome filled in where FF had issues and vice versa, but after a week or 2 on Quantum I just didn't need Chrome anymore and uninstalled it. Haven't regretted it once.

If you have to deal withtheir web apps like me, please also report performance problems loud and clear when they affect non-Chrome browsers.

I realise this is a low effort comment but...this username and this comment made me laugh and cry.

(also, I'm 90% FF now too)

The only thing that doesn't work for me at work with Firefox is some parts of our Google-powered meeting rooms. I can do videoconferencing just fine in Firefox, but I can't do screen sharing, even though Firefox seems to think screen sharing is enabled and working, only a black screen goes to the meeting room's projector.

Hopefully that'll be fixed soon...

It is. One feature I'd like to see added is a separate history for every container.

Currently the global history is shared between all containers.

This has been the one thing I've wanted since it was announced. It would make it a really powerful concept and maybe more plugins supporting container specifics. Like disabling / enabling features depending on the container you're under. I know some do, but if more did it would be amazing.

+1 for this.

It would be if I could restrict a container to a certain domain[1]. However, as it functions now, my containers are easily polluted.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/8...

I wish Mozilla would give some kind of guarantee that they won't drop the feature, otherwise I don't feel like investing time into building a workflow around it is worthwhile. And it's sad that this is even an issue.

We automated a process with RPA for a piece of software that was being replaced 6 months later.

You could look at it as silly, but in those 6 months it saved around 700 work hours after it had paid for its dev time.

Sure, that makes sense for your business, because it saved money. For me, personally, I don't want spend time getting used to software that is likely to be taken away from me (i.e. forced obsolescence). That is a very frustrating experience. I'd rather use and build on software that I know is going to remain usable for a long time.

so you can be logged into 2 google accounts at the same time? two facebook accounts? two twitter accounts? IIRC multi-account containers work by domain name so they don't handle this case. Multiple profiles do, something which Chrome handles well and Firefox handles poorly

Yes, you can. It's not as smooth as could be, but I am continuously logged into three separate Google accounts (one vanilla Gmail, two for separate G Suite businesses), and it works fine.

Each container can load any page. If you want to toggle the current domain to load in the current container, you can opt for that. Then, it will prompt you to switch to that container when you browse to that domain, and at that point you can opt to make it automatic. If you don't make it completely automatic, you can just choose to use the default container for that domain, or stick with the current container (or source container, if opening a new tab from some other container).

What would make this better would be to be able to flag a domain as openable in multiple containers, but have one be default, so I wouldn't have to decline switching to my personal Google container every time I clicked a link on an email in one of the G Suite accounts, as they redirect to a google landing page).

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