Reviews for Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Firefox Multi-Account Containers by Mozilla Firefox
7,370 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Gilgamoth, 3 years agoThe January Update broke proxy within the container and whilst Feb says it should be fixed, it doesn't work for me. Had to roll back to December (8.0.4) to get it working again
- Rated 5 out of 5by lallig00d, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ollienntsh, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Berkay CEYLAN, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nashwan, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17288077, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kjetil, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16918657, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BugSquanch, 3 years agoFunctions exactly as advertised. I use it as an alternative to the "tab groups" in google chrome. The containers also sync across devices(not on Android, ios I don't know) so that's pretty neat.
I also recommend "facebook containers" which use the same underlying tech to keep everything facebook in a separate sandbox - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16386255, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Synetech, 3 years agoThis extension is okay but has at least two major issues:
• It's a massive pain to do things that require third-party sites, for example, if you put Google into its own container, logging into StackExchange sites using OAuth or logging into YouTube become quite the ordeal. 😕 Likewise, you can't log into YouTube unless you reassign Google to "always in" YT's container, then log in, then reassign Google back to "always in" its own container. It's a MASSIVE pain! Similarly, if you put eBay in one container and PayPal in another, you won't be able to make purchases anymore because you can't log into PayPal through eBay. 🤦
• Likewise, there's no way to use wildcards or container-ize subdomains, so you have to add them all manually. For example, you can't put ALL StackExchange sites (*.stackechange.com) in a container together, you have to manually visit each one individually, then do the multiple clicks and mouse-movements to set it to open "always in se container". And then, you have to do it ALL OVER AGAIN for each one's meta subdomain. 🤦 Not only is it a massive pain, but it also defeats the point to containers since SE can track you via all the other sites that aren't in a container, including drive-by one-off SE sites you might find yourself on where you don't even have an account. 🤦🤦🤦
• I temporarily disabled the addon to try to debug an issue with a site, and when I re-enabled it, ALL of its settings were gone, all the containers, all the assignments, everything. Worse, restoring the containers from a backup doesn't help because it already WIPED OUT ALL THE COOKIES! 😠 Apparently this has been a bug for a long time and they STILL haven't fixed it. (I guess they're too busy wasting their time integrating Mozilla VPN. 😒)
• It also doesn't seem to work for this site (addons.mozilla.org), I checked the code to see if they put an exception for it (for some reason 🤨), but it doesn't seem to contain one, it just doesn't work. (Maybe Firefox suspiciously treats this site in a different way at a base level. 🤔)
• The interface is extremely lacking. There is no way to directly edit the settings such as a text-box to enter domains to assign containers. The only way to do so is to actually go to a site and then assign it to a container. This has numerous problems:
◦ It allows a site to track you at least once before you assign it to a container.
◦ It doesn't work if you're offline.
◦ It doesn't work if the site redirects to another domain or even subdomains (eg www.), so it can harvest data and quickly redirect, passing the data and preventing you from assigning the original domain to a container. This addon NEEDS a proper UI. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13513510, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14310668, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ian Carolan, 3 years agoThis extension does not work.
Try the following on firefox. Log into an Amazon account in a container in one tab, then open another container tab and log in to another separate Amazon account. Go back to the first tab and refresh the tab. The result is that the first tab now shows the account info of the second tab Amazon account.
So in effect these multi account containers tabs do not isolate anything at all.Developer response
posted 3 years agoThat's definitely a bug if the tabs are separate containers. Are you comfortable filing a new bug (or up-voting an existing bug) at the GitHub project: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers - Rated 3 out of 5by HiDevs, 3 years agoNo complaints but for the love of God. Can we please have this on android already!
*Edit
Changing my rating to 3 stars because containers constantly break the User-Agent Switcher and Manager addon. I really thought that issue would have been fixed by now.
Also fighting with this app at root domain level is a nightmare. Doesn't know the difference between Google account 1 and Google account 2. - Rated 4 out of 5by quasar, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13053862, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by deur, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by emilioego-cog, 3 years agoLa extensión me encanta pero no funciona bien con sitios donde tienes que entrar con SAML2
- Rated 5 out of 5by mattman090, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17278413, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17131125, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17277083, 3 years agoHonestly unclear how to use this ext properly. Seems as though Mozilla VPN client (stand-a-lone app) must be turned on in order for containers to fully function as expected (that is the VPN client I'm using). But the VPN app already encrypts all traffic. If this ext is just to segregate tabs for quick access and set specific endpoints then great job Mozilla. I was more interested in having the web traffic routed through VPN without needing to have the VPN client active. Like if you are gaming on one screen while shopping on another, esp. if the game requires Anti-cheat, having the VPN enabled doesn't work. Maybe its just my understanding of what this is intended for...? pssst... new feature Mozilla :). In any case it works great for keeping tabs organized into buckets, as well as setting individual VPN endpoints for each.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoYou might be able to use a proxy server to do what you want - if you set your shopping container to use a proxy, all your shopping container traffic will go thru that proxy (effectively hiding your IP address from stores & merchants), while your gaming will go thru your regular connection. - Rated 5 out of 5by kuxzo, 3 years ago