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User Profiles (Use Cases) #428
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I use containers in three ways. Right now I have very nearly a 3rd of each type:
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I'll share mostly because I was supposed to be writing up a good usage of containers style article, I can start here hah. Despite implementing assignment I only just enabled the experiment on my primary browser which is Nightly today. I also would state that I don't have many profiles or anything online. Default browsing
Private browsing
I wish these were first party isolated for all my use cases this would be ok. Finance
Shopping
Work
Personal Pinned tabs (each with a unique container)
For pinned tabs, these also could be first party isolated and not in my containers menu. Local domains
GitHub
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I'm here via https://twitter.com/KingstonTime/status/850261536828399616 thanks @jonathanKingston The best introduction to my use cases might be:
– with post 3 under Could PANORAMA feature be brought back to Firefox? as background, in particular:
tl;drVisually, from three different dates: Postscript (2017-09-01 edition)
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A more recent use case: – in a virtual desktop, with a profile that's separate from my main Firefox profile, one container for each of the five e-mail addresses that I'm required to use at work. The five containers allow me to run five copies of Outlook Web App (one for each user account) in a single window. Bottom right, the new window could not be contained (#770). Behind that window (top left), the colour is wrong (#772). I don't like the clutter. I'd prefer my containers to be colourless (#391) and free from icons (#771). |
Another desktop Firefox use case: Terse ratings at
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Also I often use:
– and (Outlook Web App x5 above as an example) at least one window requires visibility of multiple containers, and non-contained pages, within that window. |
A use case that probably can't be handled (or worked around) by Mozilla's extension. One of my five work-related Microsoft Exchange accounts frequently, naturally, receives e-mails that do not relate to my day job. Occasionally there's the wish to follow-up, and it's proper to do so without the day job context; proper to either:
Logically: Result: Underlying that Bad Request result is Microsoft's handling of links in Outlook Web App. Technically it might be possible for service administrators to reconfigure such things (the handling does cause countless problems), but I should not expect any organisation to do so. The example above is relatively lucky, in that the sender probably learnt (the hard way) to not linkify text when writing. So we have the visible longhand URL including its
Countless other examples will be less lucky. Given the Microsoft norm, I don't imagine Multi-Account Containers handling this use case (without the manual multi-step workaround) … instead, I have half an eye on this Mozilla bug: – although (thinking aloud) I'm probably stretching it. Where Microsoft obfuscates the URL it's impossible for the end user to pre-configure an assignment to a container, and so on. Notes to self:
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From the day when I first noticed a thousand tabs in a session: In the screen to the left: 288 tabs in my Mozilla window (the name is held in mind, not visible). Above the list of grouped tabs, the visible name of the group:
(Coincidence: I hit the 1,000-tab mark when I opened a tab to a page about containers.) Around an hour later I captured some of the session data to a PDF. A version that includes groups (intentionally omitting titles and URLs of open tabs) is at https://github.com/maheee/mHeaderControl/issues/1#issuecomment-337119354. Probably seventy-something groups. To the left of the list of tabs: in a panel of KDE, my list of windows. Firefox had around fourteen. The visible mHeaderControl … is a page within what I think of as my extensions window. I expect this window to be my busiest, from a group numbers perspective, for the next year or so. Now, sixty-something groups in that window, each group almost completely devoted to a single extension (the group near the centre is much looser, a mash): – and this page is one of thirty tabs within my Multi-Account Containers group: With this seventy-something-group profile, I use one container:
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I can't understand why this seems to work, neither is it privacy-related, but this use of Firefox containers – as a workaround to a bug that can affect safe mode of Firefox without containers – is worth mentioning: |
I'm primarily interested in limiting Google's tracking of my searches. I block cookies from I had hoped to solve this by doing my basic searches in a dedicated Container and automatically (with the help of a user script) opening Books links in a new tab and different Container. Unfortunately, at the moment those links open new tabs in the same Container. I'd very much like to see a pref added to control this as discussed at #434. |
I'm going to close this off, I don't think we are doing anything with it and it hasn't moved on since November too. People can continue adding comments though; thanks for raising this. |
I keep sharing bits and pieces of how I use containers in different issues. These pieces clog up the issues, lack context of my whole workflow, and get lost. A dedicated thread (this) solves those problems.
In this issue, share your whole workflow, limiting yourself to one comment. Then, link/quote your comment in other issues. If your workflow changes, edit your comment (but try to preserve the original).
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