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Status:
New idea
Submitted on
05-01-2025
09:09 AM
Submitted by
freepalestine
on
05-01-2025
09:09 AM
Add the ability to assign a container to a tab group.
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Currently, the sidebar allows account access and switching (tested with ChatGPT), and changing the account in the sidebar also changes the account logged into ChatGPT in my main browser tabs.
This presents a problem for users like me who rely on Firefox Containers to manage multiple accounts. My typical setup is:
Default (non-container) environment: Logged into my work/school account.
Personal container: Used for casual conversations, silly questions, and random chats.
The issue is that the sidebar is not container-aware. When I log into my personal account via the sidebar, it also overrides the account in my non-container tabs—disrupting the separation I rely on.
Proposed solutions:
Enable Firefox Container support in the sidebar, so users can assign container contexts to the sidebar session.
Isolate sidebar authentication from main tab sessions, allowing sidebar usage to remain independent regardless of tab logins.
Either of these changes would greatly improve the experience for users who juggle multiple accounts and rely on containers for clean separation.
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Status:
Trending idea
Submitted on
05-05-2022
12:48 AM
Submitted by
ArjunIsDark
on
05-05-2022
12:48 AM
The Multi-Account Containers extension is a very useful addon as it prevents websites from accessing all your browsing data by limiting it inside containers. I love this so much as it enhances the privacy. For example, I keep all meta related websites like facebook, instagram in a seperate container. So the only data they can access is between their own websites and not the rest of my browsing habits.
TLDR: Please bring this extension for Android!
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When having multiple tabs using the same context e.g. Banking Firefox could automatically create a tab group with the context name and color after the user would enable such feature. It's a good way to integrate container tabs into the new tab groups feature.
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Mozilla needs to transfer their own add-ons to mobile too. My 3 recommendations are: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/facebook-container/ https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/multi-account-container https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/fakespot-fake-reviews-amazon/s/
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about:preferences#containers My simple request is to make this list reorderable with drag-and-drop. For example, if I have 10 container tabs, and I add a new one, it goes to the bottom of the list. I would like to be able to drag them around to sort them so I don't have to delete them to change the list. When selecting a new container from the context menu in the tab bar, the order of this list is already respected. This would let users simply change the order without any hassle. Thanks.
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The “Clear cache and cookies when closing the browser” option is missing from the container settings. Often there is a use case where you create a container for certain sites to track you less, and for such cases the option to automatically clear the cache is missing Can you add a menu item “Clear cache and cookies when browser closes” in each container's settings?
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It`s example like it may see in historySometimes you open pages in different containers but forgot container where you open this link. I think Firefox may have this function.
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This is a very small and functionally useless, but can we customise the container tab labels, so we can choose a custom colour or icon for different containers. It would be more helpful to distinguish containers.
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Status:
New idea
Submitted on
04-09-2022
03:43 AM
Submitted by
justanotheruser
on
04-09-2022
03:43 AM
I've really come to appreciate the container feature, but they're still completely manual.
I'd suggest to add a feature to bookmarks and bookmark handling, so that I can specify in a bookmark, in which container it will open. The idea is to have e.g. one bookmark "Google/Docs/YT (work) to open in my "work" container with my work login, and another one to open in a standard container with a different or no login. Currently, this works just fine, but I have to open the container tab manually each time.
(This could be a more flexible addition to pre-assigning e.g. all *facebook.com domains to one container as @bugboy suggested.)
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Mozilla's innovative, homegrown Multi-Account Containers have proven to be an invaluable tool, providing privacy-conscious users with a strong incentive to stay loyal to Firefox. While the feature deserves much praise, there is room for improvement. Currently, the implementation is not entirely comprehensive, as certain plugins or extensions require access to login credentials to function correctly or may not be necessary in specific contexts. To further enhance security and reduce risk surface, introducing a per-container extension toggle would be a highly effective solution. Cheers, Frank
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Group all tabs in the same container in a group, currently, they are scattered all over places. Or at least order the tabs by container
if we can group the tabs together for a containers, then make it collapsible and expandable.
When I re-open or move a tab to a container, it duplicates the tab without closing the previous tab, this becomes a trouble, when I select 10 tabs and move them to a new container, now suddenly I have 20 tabs and close old tabs one by one
These features are already in Brave browser.
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Tab groups and sync extensions has already been suggested but yet to be implemented.
With Firefox it is possible to send (copies of) Tabs to other device as well as open up (a new copy) of tabs from other devices with the Synced Tabs feature. Using these are tedious and gets arduous. Plus now you have the same website(S) open on different devices and will show up in the "Synced Tabs" as separate tabs making the Sync Tabs list bulky and inefficiently redundant.
I work in one window, multiple tabs, (its easy to loose tabs when working in multiple windows).
I want when I close a tab on one device, it closes on all my devices. Open, change URL, etc. While this may not be good for classic browsing on multiple devices, using separate spaces/groups that sync together turns multiple devices into a single seamless continuity.
tab groups are organized by user preference and not device and by Syncing tab groups it will feel like working on a single device instead of multiple devices. Closing a tab in a group will mean that the tab is closed on all devices, etc. Separate devices can have different active groups.
Extensions exist that can group tabs, backup, and restore, but they cannot be synced live which is something I believe Firefox can and should implement themselves if they are not willing to sync all extension settings/data.
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A long time ago, I discovered that when I signed-in to a website in a Private Window, I would remain signed in to that same website in a different Private Window. I realized that all private tabs belong to one Container.
Perhaps there should be a container for each Private Window. After all, there is a certain logic built into windows so that you can separate your different tabs and browsing activity in different windows. It therefore makes sense that if you access the same website from different Private Windows, it would be for different reasons and different use-cases, and we wouldn't have the same need, therefore the website shouldn't have to access the data it already has stored on Firefox. And while this rationale doesn't make it necessarily more preferable than the status quo, there would also be a Privacy benefit from making this change: it would strengthen Firefox's powerful container abilities, by isolating websites and their data, separating more privacy-invading websites from others, while still keeping the features and functions of Private browsing for all those tabs.
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the only way to rearrange Containers is to edit "containers.json"
when I click on Firefox Multi-Account Containers Extension button and then click on Manage Containers, it shows an option to arrange the containers but that arrangement only shows when you click on the extension button. if you right click the NewTab button (+) the container is listed as before.
I suggest when the user modify the order of Containers that it would also reflect everywhere in firefox and most importantly on the New Tab button.
Also, Separators (like in Firefox bookmark folders.) Separators, would be an additional way group multi account containers along with folders.
Lastly, not for me, but many suggested this, which is to add a way to rearrange the Containers alphabetically.
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Status:
New idea
Submitted on
03-23-2025
11:53 AM
Submitted by
ShabbaRanksMF
on
03-23-2025
11:53 AM
Hi,
I just thought it'd be a useful option to have where each Bookmark Folder can have it's contained Bookmarks open automatically in a particular, user selected, Container type. This option could be displayed when 'Editing' a Folder.
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Status:
New idea
Submitted on
08-13-2022
12:30 PM
Submitted by
Zocker1999NET
on
08-13-2022
12:30 PM
Extensions (or add-ons) are great to enhance the web experience, but entrusting them with access to the content of all websites I visit (if the features of those require it) is a little bit too much. Some extensions can already solve that: Extensions which only want to modify e.g. YouTube do not need "Access [to] your data for all websites". But other extensions should be possible to use on all webpages, e.g. extensions replacing/blocking "bad words", translating extensions or extensions, which should work with self-hostable instances of services (GitLab, Phabricator, Nitter, …). They cannot easily restrict themselves to some domains (e.g. the official variants) because that would also restrict their use. But, most of the time, such extensions cannot & should not be able to see my whole history or access data when I'm using online banking.
Using different Firefox profiles is a way to solve that problem, but it is not easily usable because switching between these sessions is not easy. However, it is easy & user-friendly & automatable to work with containers, e.g. I can assign certain domains to certain containers so visiting them automatically switches to or suggests the assigned container. And already are containers used to enhance security & privacy. By allowing users to restrict extensions to certain containers, I can easily configure which extensions should be able to modify which website(s), either special selected ones or I can easily switch to a certain container to enable more not-so-trusted extensions if I need to. And by allowing to exclude some or not explicitly selected extensions from certain containers, I can increase the security of online shopping / banking services because fewer extensions would have access to the data of those.
This would make it easier for users to trust extensions which need the "Access your data for all websites" permission because I would not be required to give them access to all unconditionally.
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Status:
New idea
Submitted on
07-15-2024
01:34 AM
Submitted by
giuse_boccia
on
07-15-2024
01:34 AM
There are several command line options available for Firefox (all listed here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions), however there seems to be no option to open an URL in a specific container.
A possible workaround might be to set "always open this site in...", however this does not work if one needs to use the same website with different containers/accounts.
One possible idea for the option could be to add an option --container [NAME], such as --container "Work", or --container [No.]
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What made Firefox successful in the past? It was simply fast, adaptable and user friendly.
Then Chrome came and did exactly the same. But now its faster, and has very similar Addons at least.
It sucks, but people dont seem to care about privacy? Is that too short? What if they care about privacy, why should they use Firefox?
Firefox is not a privacy out of the box browser. Its a flawed concept. Everything a product stands for, has to be actually enabled by default!
I use Arkenfox, and I used Librewolf before. But Librewolf is slower than Arkenfox with native Fedora Firefox, so I chose the extremely manual way. But even for me that is work.
On other installs I simply set some GUI settings and thats it. No RFP, no webgl, useragent or canvas randomization...
Firefox is not a privacy browser, even though its easy to make it one. Privacy is literally the only reason why people would use it!
Firefoxes userbase is big enough. I dont even know how to donate to the Browser, I already did to the other Mozilla and in the end didnt care anymore.
If every Firefox user donates like 1€/month, its enough to get rid of the shady search engine deals.
Those Search engines and useless presets make Firefox a useless browser. For normies that dont know its the only private browser once configured, will simply use Brave.
Having Google by default makes it useless, Chrome is the Google Browser.
Firefox needs to take this step: get rid of all the crap that makes the internet the place it is. Ads are flawed. Invasive search engines should be removed.
Having no vision for this gives people no reason to use Firefox. A privacy browser does not include Google out of the box.
Why not?
Block Ads by default
Be very secure by default
Use containers by default
Simply integrate Arkenfox as an out of the Box setting.
Have a "secure mode" toggle that enables this
Arkenfox is usable for daily life! Really! And even with Noscript it is.
The only thing stopping Firefox from doing this out of the box is the shady Ad deals. If they dont rely on those companies, why not just block all Ads?
Why develop "privacy preserving Ads" techniques, and not just a way to donate to websites you often visit? With crypto, or anything else. Maybe have a database and donate bigger amounts to fewer sites to reduce transactions. Everything anonymized.
Firefox is a great Toolbox. But as nobody uses a browser like that, its current state is useless for people. Without out of the box privacy and real innovations, it has nothing to offer compared to Chrome or Edge.
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