Reviews for Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Firefox Multi-Account Containers by Firefox
Review by customizer001
Rated 5 out of 5
by customizer001, 7 years agoThis is an awesome add-on for Firefox. It's like having 2+ browsers within a single window. You can log into two different email accounts within the same window! You can open up two Amazon.com accounts via two different colored Containers! It's so awesome! User Interface Power to the MAX!
Personal Example: I have like 8 gmail accounts and it's a hassle to log into each account and check them via PC browsers (Thank goodness for the mobile gmail app, but sometimes you just gotta view an email from a PC). But with Firefox containers, I can easily open all 8 gmail accounts, each within it's own container. For example: my first, main gmail opens in a blue container. My second, secondary gmail opens in a red container. My third, junk email opens in a yellow container. I literally press the containers button, pick a color, open a new tap in said color, type in gmail.com or press the home button, and (since I have Firefox remember my passwords to my gmail accounts) it automatically loads just that email (for that color). In essence, I can check all 3 emails within a single browser window. Containers is convenient!
Technical Note: I've streamlined getting to my emails faster. I use another Firefox Quantum add-on, "New Tab Override" by Soren Hentzschel to actually get Firefox Quantum to automatically open a new tab specifically assigned to https://mail.google.com/. Now I can just: pick a container color (blue, red, yellow) and open a "new tab" in said color, and with "New Tab Override," I'm automatically redirected to https://mail.google.com/ . Yes, every time I open a new tab I'm redirected to https://mail.google.com/ but now I no longer have to type "gmail.com" into the url bar nor press the home button to load gmail for each of my container colors. That's 8 less clicks for me and I get to have Facebook be my homepage again!
Edit: Be careful when first opening up Firefox Quantum. You won't be in any Container. Instead you will be in a colorless container a.k.a. normal Firefox browser/window/tabs (vanilla Firefox). If anything, I ask that the developers make it so I can start Firefox in a specific colored Container. Also be careful when opening up a new tab in Firefox Quantum, the default new tab is a vanilla tab so you must hold the + symbol to open a specifically colored new tab.
Personal Example: I have like 8 gmail accounts and it's a hassle to log into each account and check them via PC browsers (Thank goodness for the mobile gmail app, but sometimes you just gotta view an email from a PC). But with Firefox containers, I can easily open all 8 gmail accounts, each within it's own container. For example: my first, main gmail opens in a blue container. My second, secondary gmail opens in a red container. My third, junk email opens in a yellow container. I literally press the containers button, pick a color, open a new tap in said color, type in gmail.com or press the home button, and (since I have Firefox remember my passwords to my gmail accounts) it automatically loads just that email (for that color). In essence, I can check all 3 emails within a single browser window. Containers is convenient!
Technical Note: I've streamlined getting to my emails faster. I use another Firefox Quantum add-on, "New Tab Override" by Soren Hentzschel to actually get Firefox Quantum to automatically open a new tab specifically assigned to https://mail.google.com/. Now I can just: pick a container color (blue, red, yellow) and open a "new tab" in said color, and with "New Tab Override," I'm automatically redirected to https://mail.google.com/ . Yes, every time I open a new tab I'm redirected to https://mail.google.com/ but now I no longer have to type "gmail.com" into the url bar nor press the home button to load gmail for each of my container colors. That's 8 less clicks for me and I get to have Facebook be my homepage again!
Edit: Be careful when first opening up Firefox Quantum. You won't be in any Container. Instead you will be in a colorless container a.k.a. normal Firefox browser/window/tabs (vanilla Firefox). If anything, I ask that the developers make it so I can start Firefox in a specific colored Container. Also be careful when opening up a new tab in Firefox Quantum, the default new tab is a vanilla tab so you must hold the + symbol to open a specifically colored new tab.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15082755, 13 hours agoThis is one of the core plugins I use (in addition to Ublock Origin).
With the account sync, containers are also remembered across different computers as well, so I don't have to set up the containers on every new laptop or reinstall of firefox. Sometimes I mistakenly open a website in the wrong container because I don't always map every single website to a container, but most of the time it's a non-issue.
I'm surprised this is still an add-on and not a core Firefox feature. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18184964, a day agoIt doesn't work for me. I cannot create a container where I am logged into Google and simultaneously a container where I'm not logged in.
- Rated 5 out of 5by luca_gohan, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19799825, 2 days agoL'add on correspond parfaitement à ce dont j'ai besoin
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14066212, 4 days agoA must have, cannot imagine my workflow without it anymore.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Benjamin MOREAUX, 5 days agoVery handy for managing multiple M365 or Google tenants.
For me, the only thing missing is the ability to have “private browsing” containers and a way to always open in a container, for example when editing a bookmark. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19794127, 5 days ago
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- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14541632, 9 days agoRecently it's been impossible to remove a site from the 'managed site list' - after a short period it re-appears. Perhaps its an integration issue with FF sync, or occurred when FF revamping the profiles management.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19787479, 9 days agoExcellent solution to manage multiple cloud tenant.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jawa D. WAI, 11 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by fsr, 14 days agoIt's excellent. Very useful for using the same website with different accounts, like your personal and work accounts.
- Rated 4 out of 5by altyspa, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NeoOne, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AjarAdore, 18 days agoQuite handy once you get the hang of it. I love the ability to purge cookies across a container, very useful. Honestly feel like this should be installed by default and enabled via settings.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Сырное, 23 days agoSo, what do we have here? A mockery from Firefox. Let's go back to the proxy form - it expects "type://host:ip", but what do we actually get? No SOCKS5 support. I enter "SOCKS5://ip:port", and it complains about an unsupported record type. And the proxy has been verified as working. It simply wouldn't work with any functional proxy.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mike Breytentebach, 24 days ago
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- Rated 3 out of 5by Queenie, 24 days agol💗ve the concept, the excution is not working so well for me at present - I am not sure where the issue is, whether its in relation to my password keeper or the sites I am accessing (particularly where there is MFA).
Some are just getting caught in a constant login error loop (personally, I think its the sites - Xero, you are the main culprit, and its not unique to this browser or function).
I am new to containers, so still working out how to use them but I desperately want it to work as Chrome profiles have been an ongoing resource vampire. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15136226, 25 days ago