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What are your favourite add-ons/extensions on Firefox? (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago by Justly0250@lemdro.id to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] Justly0250@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Are containers like 'Profiles' on Chrome? Like different users can have different profiles to separate their browsing sessions on one browser.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Containers are like single-website sandboxes instead of regular tabs. You can have a separate container for Facebook, for example. You can let it have the cookies it wants, but it can't access anything outside of that container. So to facebook, it looks like they're the only site you ever visit.

[–] Justly0250@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are these containers saved for later use when I restart the browser? Or do I have to create a new container and login again?

[–] gherhartd@ludosphere.fr 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Justly0250 @moody two things:
- Firefox has now, without extensions, "total cookie protection" that prevents one website to access another site's cookies (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/introducing-total-cookie-protection-standard-mode), so as far as tracking protection go, no extension needed

- Mutli-Account Containers add another capability: different cookies for the same site in different containers, like being logged to two different accounts on one site in different containers - and that is saved between sessions.

[–] Justly0250@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

and that is saved between sessions.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll check this feature out.