Add Setting to Multi-Account Containers to not open site in assigned container, if already opened inside another container

[Arecher]

I have set up containers to open my social media websites in a 'Social Media' container, automatically, through the 'always open this site in this container' dialog. This is great, and works like a charm for 99.99% of the times I want to open twitter, bluesky, etc.

But every now and then I need to login to work related social media accounts, which I would like to open in my 'Work' container instead, so I can be logged into a different account. This is basically impossible at the moment. Manually opening it inside the work container means the 'Multi-Account Containers' plugin reloads it and opens it in my saved container, meaning it logs me into my personal accounts. There is no override option for the saved rule.

I suggest adding a checkbox to the plugin settings, which restricts the automatic opening of websites in a container to tabs that are not opened in a container already. Perhaps 'Never open in assigned Container when already in a container'
This will allow users to manually open a tab in a different container using the 'RMB > Open in New Container Tab', and means the default rule can be overridden, and does not fight the user whenever they specifically choose to have a tab be opened in a container, while allowing the automatic opening of tabs whenever they do not.

[Jon]

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[igorlogius]

@Arecher 

Stumbled over this idea and i am curious ... did you consider separating your Work and Personal (accounts/data) into different browser profiles? Because as far as i  can tell ... that would allow you todo exactly what you want without adding some pretty workflow specific option. 

[Arecher]

Didn't even know that they existed! They look interesting, but having to set up and manage two firefox profiles (that I would want the same bookmarks, settings, etc on), and then having to 1) open `about:profiles` 2) press the button 3) go to the website just to be able to log into a different account on a social media platform feels like a hassle.

I'm only using the Firefox Multi-Account Container plugin settings to achieve this odd scenario (which exists to make it easy to log into two different accounts), so I'd expect that plugin to be robust enough to deal with that. And an additional setting to turn the aforementioned hassle into a single 'right-click, open in container X' seems like worthwhile expansion of the functionality to me!