https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Have you found any way to deal with that?
I use Firefox container tabs (for GitHub specifically) instead. It's lighter-weight and the UI is better. Container tabs are color-coded, so the different accounts are easy to distinguish.
Or you could use container tabs in multiple Firefox windows under a single Firefox profile.
i had this experience as well that often the wrong container was picked.
but maybe i am using the wrong workflow
When I need to open a GitHub tab for my organization admin account, I open a new tab in my "work/admin" container first, then nav to GitHub. Child tabs are opened in the same container. This is 99% of my usage.
Following an incidental link from elsewhere to GitHub will open in the default account/primary container (or "no container"). Or, you can right-click and select "Open in New Container Tab > Container X" if you are aware of the need to switch accounts ahead of time...(and if you are not, there's "Reopen in Container > Container X").
I don't use the multiple-windows/multiple-containers model. There might be an extension for "open all tabs in this window in container X" though.
I use Profiles and multiple windows when the separation is important, and Containers in the same window when the separation is merely convenient.
this is also a problem with using multiple profiles in different windows
https://medium.com/@stoically/enhance-your-privacy-in-firefo...
You can get it to open things with the same subdomain in the same container, or force it to do differently by holding down control for example. I have mine configured like so:
https://github.com/dngray/user.js/tree/fx-desktop#global-iso...
With those, it seems to cover my use cases.
- Middle click the Plus button to open a new tab in the same container directly adjacent (instead of at the end) to the current one.
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr... allows you to have different groups open within a browser window and switch between them. You can enforce a particular container per group. It may allow different "groups of groups" per window, so you can just use one group per window but use it to enforce the container.
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-and-sw... allows you to type e.g. "co work" in the omnibox to switch containers from the keyboard.
That said, even just the "built-in" Multi-Account Containers will allow you to pin a domain to a particular container - i.e. amazon.com will always open in a Shopping container, wellsfargo.com always in Banking, slack, github, netlify always in Work, twitter only in Social Media, Gmail and YouTube in Google, etc.
Containers themselves are effectively just a label and a (limited) privacy sandbox. So far I have experienced no performance hit nor other issues so I create new Containers at will. Thus if you have 6 gmail accounts you can create Google1, Google2, and stay logged into all of them all of the time.
Additionally, I use the Cookie Auto Delete extension to only persist specific cookies to specific containers while all other cookies are wiped. I can maintain my YouTube subscriptions in a container that stays logged in my primary gmail account while being able to also watch other random videos in my Random container without polluting my real account history.
For work I have about 6 different accounts that I can be actively logged-in with; each tab is a different user with an entirely different role (for testing) and all can exist side-by-side.
As other have mentioned, you can always right click on any link from any container and open that link in a different container.
For me there is no going back to "standard" browsing. I can remain independently logged in to whatever I choose and feel confident those cookies are segregated from any other browsing activity. (obviously my IP is the same and some forms of fingerprinting surely still manage to track me in some manner)
Recently I added the Containerise extension which allows for even greater granularity with the always-open-in-a-container feautre: it allows for subdomain & even regex-based url rules. So, for example, console.aws.amazon.com can open in an AWS container (logged in my work email) while amazon.com can open my Shopping container (logged in with my personal email).
TLDR - containers plus extensions are extremely flexible and powerful
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...
The only downside or issue i've run into is when some application wants to use some web login and it just launched the default browser. sometimes copy and pasting the url into the browser with the profile i want to use works, sometimes not.