ability to rearrange Firefox Containers in Manage Containers menu

[pirafrank]

Issue: Right now users cannot rearrange Containers as shown when right-clicking on the "+" button to open a new tab.

Proposed solution: the Manage Containers menu should show handles aside each container name in the list, so the user can drag rows to rearrange Containers and change their order.

[Jon]

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[Luca_Pavan]

What containers do you mean? Do you mean the shortcuts under Firefox new tab search bar? I see no "containers" option on right-click options menu of + button. If you mean changing tabs order you can simply drag them as you like, otherwise I didn't got you.

[pirafrank]

I mean this https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

[senachi]

+ I need this too. I have to many containers, and since priorities are changing, I'd love to have the option to re-arrange the containers

[Glueball]

Any serious use of the containers' functionality really needs this.

[Tarang74]

Here is a possible solution:

1. Close Firefox
2. Navigate to the following directory:
   Firefox:

   ~\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>.default

   Waterfox:

   ~\AppData\Roaming\Waterfox\Profiles\<profile>.default

3. Open containers.json.
4. Rearrange the objects so that they are in the order you would like them to appear in Firefox. The objects look like this:

   {"userContextId": 1, ..., "name": "Container 1"}

[dema]

The suggestion in the comment above works for reordering, but with bad side-effects: upon restarting firefox , the restored tabs are all opened in wrong containers AND sites are assigned to those those containers -- effectively, your curated assignment of sites to containers is wrecked. I'm glad I tried this in a test profile and not in a profile with lots of containers & open tabs!

[dema]

Beware: the suggestion from the comment above , i.e to reorder entries in containers.json  does reorder, but with real bad side effect of wrecking your curated (site,container) assignments.

Upon restarting FF, I noticed that all sites assigned to one container were assigned to a totally different container.   (most containers' sites were reassigned to some other container).

I'm glad I did this with a test FF profile , not with my main profile with lots of containers & open tabs.