Firefox Container Tabs: The Best Browser Feature! Here's How To Use Them

[@michael_tunnell]

Hey everyone! If you decide to use this extension please let me know how it works for you. Also if you haven't checked out the video for my 7 Reasons why Firefox is my favorite web browser then check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHi3c3tvrtdrq9k

[@michael_tunnell]

Private Tabs is all about not saving sessions so using that means the extension isn't being allowed to do it's thing

[@eliotcole]

@@michael_tunnell wait ... private tabs? I've been waiting for them to move private browsing into tabs ... has it happened?

[@michael_tunnell]

@@eliotcole yes and no. Private Browsing is different but you can still do it. The containers separate data from other containers so it is not the same as private. However you can install an extension for using a temporary container that will automatically delete the container data once you delete the tab which will effectively act as a private tab. So yea you can technically do that.

[@ankita.harshgarg]

I am still not able to figure out how to configure and use multiple accounts of KZbin to keep personal and official interests and recommendations separated . You started by giving example of multiple Twitter accounts but you only showed how to make containers and use keyboard shortcuts.

[@michael_tunnell]

The process with KZbin is the same with anything. Create multiple containers and login to a different account for each container. What specific issue are you having

[@millaa314]

This extension is so so so useful but oh so overlooked, I’m glad you’re letting more people know about it! I mainly use it to keep my youtube recommendations isolated between my interests. I’d love to know about the extensions for container tabs, never heard of it before. Or just more Firefox-goodness in general :)

[@michael_tunnell]

Advanced container tabs video is coming up for sure and more Firefox tips sounds fun to do as well :)

[@NoStLinuxGaming]

I can't thank you enough, Michael, for talking about the containers in your previous Firefox video. I've been using them constantly since then, and, honestly, I can't even imagine browsing in a container-less environment anymore. :)

[@michael_tunnell]

that's awesome! I am so happy you found this feature useful. I agree completely that it is a fantastic feature of Firefox and has changed how I even use a webbrowser :D

[@montechristoJr]

Loved the video it was really informative. I found out about this extension by accident today and I have been using Firefox for last three years without knowing about this extension! People should talk more about this. Heck Firefox should be promoting this.

[@skylab14]

This was a very useful video! For the past two years I've been totally overlooking this feature. .... Thank you for posting. Subbed. 👍

[@allaroundgrowth]

How does this video *only* have 50k views as of December 2022? Incredible video, valuable information. You are a wealth of knowledge. Grateful that I stumbled across this video. I'll be sharing.

[@RimonKade]

I had never heard of multi-account containers. I had been using a separate browser for working in another account. This will make things a little easier for me. Thanks.

[@thomas0101]

Hey great video I just found out about container tabs a few days ago--super great feature! Would love to hear more about it in an advanced video.

[@arjsan2]

Thanks for showing more features on this extension...

[@teresafontanilla4172]

This is a great solution for multiple business owners. Thank for the video and tips.

[@dasgeek]

Love it, one of the standout features that makes Firefox in a class of its own. If you care about privacy this is a critical feature you should be taking advantage of. Great video.

[@michael_tunnell]

Thanks buddy!

[@ultimatetechguru9252]

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[@adrianabarreiros9972]

Great video! Extremely informative and easy to follow. I do have a question, though: since installing the Multi-Account Container and the Facebook container extensions, I noticed I can't share videos from KZbin on Facebook anymore, as only a generic link will appear. I guess it makes sense, as the information is now separate. But I wonder if there is any way to work around this (other than using a different browser when sharing content).

[@nomdeplume8900]

ANOTHER QUESTION: I'd like to know what goes on with unopen containers when I have one container open. My thoughts are toward the resources used for 'open' tabs'. Do the unopen tabs 'go to sleep' , become dormant when in the unopened state? And if there is more info regarding topic of open vs unopen containers, I'd love to learn more. Many thanks.

[@kevincaballero6133]

Awesome video and great content. Easy to follow and understand how to use the containers. Thanks man!

[@michael_tunnell]

Thank you for the comment, I'm glad it was helpful!

[@abe9396]

Hi Michael! i had no idea this existed but im happy to have learned something new! however i have a question: is it possible, when i open a container, to open on a specific website kinda like if i set my homepage to open up on youtube instead of firefox home? So example would be: i open the containers extention to open my container that i have a 2nd twitch account on, and when i press on said container, instead of opening a new tab it instead opens twitch logged into my 2nd account. thanks for the great video!

[@joegee2815]

Awesome stuff. I will use this to keep work separate as well as using multiple social media accounts. Newer versions of Firefox seemed to default to putting facebook in a container which I've used since it has been available. About time I started using containers more.

[@michael_tunnell]

Containers are great for sure! :)

[@MegaManNeo]

This is very handy for me, who happens to often click other people's Amazon links when chatting in Discord for instance which often leads to Amazon sending me unnecessary mails about stuff I was never really interested in myself. Also for checking my own visibility in message boards to the public, it sounds useful. I am confused however as for why they separated multi account containers from what's already built into the browser for environments.

[@CentHiker]

Omg!! This saved my day!! Thanks a lot for the pro tip!

[@michael_tunnell]

You’re welcome, glad it helped!

[@PedroRosado22]

Great video, Michael! This multi-account container add on seems great. I will install it. Also, please do a video on Firefox bookmarks.

[@michael_tunnell]

Will do :)

[@lindhe]

Yes, this one is pure amaze!

[@ED-un5hl]

Thank you for this! Very helpful tool.

[@joeam7484]

Hi Michael Thank you so much for your video I am using Firefox portable for multiple facebook ads account which is working fine. But the Firefox portables consume a lot of my storage So my question is. Is this extension Multi account containers can really compensate the firefox portable? Can each container has its cookies and its extension...

[@cylonscion5470]

Thanks a bunch; I recently heard about this feature and this video was perfect in getting me started. As I'm playing around with it, I noticed that it opens links inside the same container, unless the website had a container already assigned. I can right-click and open the link in a 'no container' but is there a way to make that the default behavior. I don't see anything in the preferences section and maybe there's a better way to do this. Certainly a thumbs up for more content like this.

[@ScaryTimeTravel]

Thank you for this.

[@mrazster]

From one Michael to another: FINALLY :-) ....I´ve been waiting for it since you asked way back when you posted your "Firefox video" ! Is there anywhere, that you´re aware of, where I can find more information on what exactly is going on "under the hood" when using those containers ?

[@satoshiborishi6898]

Nice tutorial men!

[@Mei8888]

Is there any possibility to transfer all tabs from one 'container user' to a new ff-window?

[@jhonjaramillo8421]

You could use this extension to collapse diferents taps into one tap?

[@ikarimameen]

I've switched back Firefox because of this awesome feature, thanks Sir

[@michael_tunnell]

Nice! I'm glad you found the video helpful and I'm glad I didn't oversell the value of this feature lol 😂

[@JuicySmoothieFruityBoy]

This was really nice! I really liked it! :D Thanks a lot. I really liked your end quote: Whhhaha The bomb! :D And I also like your shirt :D Thanks for explaining about the shortcuts!! So strange they don't explain this in the addon... :S Only Love!!!

[@sotecluxan4221]

Thanx, requires some learning, so I watch ur vid!

[@michael_tunnell]

I am thinking about doing a video with a more detailed approach to show exactly what to do plus some advanced tips

[@RafGoetschalckx]

I”m getting in FireFox more and more thanks to the DLN. Awesome. Is there a shortcut or easy way to make a container always opening in incognito? Keep up the good work. Regards from Belgium

[@tbr6676]

Hello Michael great help! thank you

[@michael_tunnell]

You're welcome 😎👍

[@kevinf7957]

Especially since you mention using Multi-Account Containers (Container Tabs) to open 2 different Twitter accounts at the same time, side by side, in separate tabs, it would have been great to show how that's done and what it looks like in this video (perhaps a follow-up video?). Of course it could be shown with 2 Gmail accounts or 2 Hotmail accounts, etc, instead of Twitter. But, all-in-all, a great video.

[@michael_tunnell]

I am glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the feedback. I didn't include that because I did show how to make new tabs with containers so logging into different accounts wouldn't be necessary in my opinion and would come off to done as just filler. I will try to provide better examples for tutorials in the future though so thanks for the feedback.

[@congoantrac7739]

thank you so much

[@chagoriver7159]

excelent video. very helpful.

[@michael_tunnell]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@kokselbroks6022]

Can we have separate plugins within containers? i have a specific password manager i want to use only for work, but not on my personal account since it keeps prompting me there.

[@michael_tunnell]

Unfortunately no, this is not a feature with the containers. You can do it with different profiles but that's a bit more involved to setup. I'd recommend checking out Bitwarden because you can switch between multiple accounts within the extension so you can easily go back and forth between work and personal. Bitwarden is awesome and what I use,plus they are also a sponsor of my channel so it helps me if you check it out. bitwarden.com/tux 😎👍

[@BRAGACHOICE]

What a time saver.

[@zordanxxx]

I have the facebook container but was disabled and nowhere to activate it. I can edit permissions and what not but not activate (redundancy alert).

[@philsims9027]

How do I open 2 gmail accounts in one container. Do you call the container Work and then do tabs within the work container. When I try that, the first one just keeps coming up. I'm new to this but I can see where it will be very useful to me. If this is not the place I should ask the question, I apologize. If so, is there a forum you can recommend?

[@michael_tunnell]

You should join the DLN Forum at dlnforum.com for sure but to answer your question. You can't have two account in one container, you need a different container per account. This is the purpose of the containers to isolate session data per container. There's no session data separation of you try to do it a single container

[@rizzrak]

Helpful!

[@michael_tunnell]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ricardocarrasco6840]

Thanks for sharing. I created a Twitter container and works fine, but.. when I pin the Twitter tab like several other tabs, each one in their own container. When I close Firefox and then reopen it, all containerised tabs open in their usual places except for the Twitter tab which opens unpinned but still containerised. Weird. Have you tried?

[@michael_tunnell]

I don't use the pin tabs feature because pinned tabs bypass the resource management features of not loading until clicked. I've not experienced that issue because I don't use pinned tabs. I suggest going to your Firefox preferences and selecting the option to remember the session next load. I think that's way better than pinned tabs.

[@nogreenwashin]

good for organizing tabs, yet they are all still taking up space in the browser window. I just did a similar tab setup in Chrome which has "Tab Groups" so tabs can all be collapsed into various topic areas (containers of sorts). this is sooo much cleaner to view only the group you want . I use both Chrome and Firefox so wanted this functionality in both - I've been searching for how to do this in Firefox but can't find...would you know? thanks

[@michael_tunnell]

Chrome doesn't have a container functionality just profile switching so I don't consider that the same thing as the containers in Firefox because everything of a profile in chrome changes. With that said, yes I am pretty sure you can do isolated tabs per group like you mentioned with the Firefox extension "Simple Tab Groups". Let me know if this works for what you were looking for. 😎👍

[@e8sm]

Thanks for the comprehensive video on containers. Great stuff! On the Facebook container, is it possible to use two account without using the private browser? Multi account works with other socials like KZbin but can't seem to get it to work on FB as I could like to keep to use the container. Or do I create a different container for the other FB account? Do other containers work the same way or does the FB container work differently? Thoughts on this? Thanks again!

[@michael_tunnell]

Facebook Container works differently. That ones doesn't let you accidentally use the wrong container so it forces you back into that container anytime you go to a Facebook owned website. It's a nice feature for those with only ones Facebook account. If you want to use more than one then you'd need to create custom normal containers for those Facebook accounts and not use the Facebook container extension. The downside is you will need to remember to only ever use these otherwise the protecting features of blocking tracking will not be as good. That's just something to keep in mind

[@e8sm]

@@michael_tunnell Great thanks Michael. To recap my understanding, if I create another container (eg. Facebook 2) and only use for the other FB account, then it does it job with blocking tracking etc? Thanks again and will try this. EDIT - Think my understanding is incorrect. You're right that it forces the FB container. Before I start creating my own containers for FB, do I lose specific functionality by creating my own?

[@michael_tunnell]

The Facebook container forces access only in that container, that's the big difference. In order to have 2 different containers you need remove the Facebook specific extension and then build manually. You will lose the auto force, so you need to make sure you're using the right containers at a given time. There's also some JavaScript blocking stuff on some things too I think. But other than that you can do the manual way

[@mmathews7724]

I just found your channel and LOVE IT...starting to binge watch! I'm a beginner looking to increase my privacy. I am switching to firefox for my browser. Id like to know your opinion as I'm stuck on something.I'm debating which of these 3 options is best. The first option being using 4 different web browsers, 1 for each (email, banking, shopping and general web browsing). Option 2 is using Firefox exclusively and having 4 different user profiles set up so essentially I'd be using 4 different Firefox browsers. Option 3 is to use just 1 Firefox user profile and create "containers". I love the containers option the best but scared it will make tracking and fingerprinting worse than going with 4 different browsers. PLEASE let me know your thoughts.

[@michael_tunnell]

Thank you very much Mark! I am glad you enjoy my content. 😎 (I'm curious, which type of content do you prefer? My individual videos like this or my podcast TWIL on this channel? I have other podcasts btw just not on this channel) As for your question, I use different containers for each profile/account because it is so much more convenient. The main reason why the container tabs could be confusing is messing up which container you are suppose to be in. This is solved by a different type of container addons being used. If you install the Facebook Container extension it will lock you automatically to that container when you go to anything owned by Facebook such as going to Instagram and such. If you are on those websites and are linked to another site it will take you out of that container breaking the tracking possibilities and it does these things automatically. This is a really slick method of keeping tracking to a minimum. The Facebook Container extension is made by Mozilla but none of the other website / company specific extensions are maintained by them officially. Instead the rest are forks of the Facebook extension and modified to specify different companies by the community. If you want to check those out then visit addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=container If you still feel more comfortable with different browsers then I say do whatever works for you but I can say I am fine with the container method due to this isolation feature. 👍

[@OchitomiYT]

Thank you i want to know if there is a similar one on chrome

[@michael_tunnell]

Chrome does not have this functionality last I checked.

[@guilherme5094]

This will be very useful for sure. Firefox is the best.

[@nomdeplume8900]

QUESTION: Michael, does Multiple account containers give the SAME protections as Facebook containers. I'd like to use only MAContainers instead of needting to use both FBContainers and MAContainers together.

[@michael_tunnell]

I am curious, why do you have an issue with using both addons? I use both by the way. To answer your question: no they do not work the same way because the Facebook container keeps you from accidentally using other containers and sessions where MAC gives more control over the browsing to the user. Facebook Container is specifically for the purpose of isolating Facebook so if you go to Facebook in any other container it will force the session into the Facebook session so they cant track you as much. This can kind of be done with MAC stuff but the Facebook Container also automatically pulls you out of it when you leave a Facebook owned website to somewhere else so they cant continue to track you once you leave their websites. In my opinion, this is most certainly worth having as a extension.

[@Wigglythegreat2]

I guess I'm late to the party, but this is quite handy info for this extension.

[@BenjaminLStewart]

Not sure what the benefit is of using the multi-account container over using a folder bookmark (as a "container"). Is there a way to open each set of tabs within a container directly from the container add-on (like a bookmark)?

[@michael_tunnell]

You can right click a bookmark in the sidebar and open directly to a container. However having a bookmark directly associated to a container is not an option by default. This is something I and many others have pressed Mozilla to do but they haven't done it. There is a 3rd party extension for that if you want to try that. You can also assign domains to specific containers if you want so when you open a site of a specific domain it will always open in the defined container. That's a built in feature.

[@BenjaminLStewart]

@@michael_tunnell Great, thanks for your response. Do you have the name of the third party add-on?

[@tuxpowerpc]

I would like you to do a video pertaining to the Firefox bookmark system. My reason is I noticed some time ago that it does not merge duplicates. I am wondering if there is something I can be doing differently. I think if you can do a "Tips and HowTo" on this subject it would be greatly appreciated Michael. Great video and I will be sharing!

[@michael_tunnell]

the way it handles duplicates is not ideal and not part of what makes the system good. There are many other things that make it great. However, I will say that there is an extension I use to deal with the duplicate bookmarks problem. I dont remember what it is called as I don't use it that much and it isnt installed right now but I will try to find the one I liked and let you know.

[@richardmonroe4208]

Also, you might consider doing the "Tips and HowTo" with emphasis on users who are new to FF

[@michael_tunnell]

@@richardmonroe4208 I like that idea, I will do a tips video for that purpose

[@alexi_space]

can do I hide all tabs except work? I miss this option... its so frustrating when you have all of those other tabs open which you dont need to use when you doing specific task.

[@michael_tunnell]

You can do this with the extension Simple Tab Groups. STG also integrates with Container Tabs so if you want a group to only use a specific container you can totally do that with the combo. Link for Simple Tab Groups = addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups

[@banzooiebooie]

Great video! More videos about how to be productive with Firefox, please! I am considering moving all my bookmarks from Pinboard to Firefox. Should make backups now and then though. Also do you have a tip on bookmark manager for Firefox or do you use the default. I know that there are plenty of bookmark managers, but which ones are good and why...

[@michael_tunnell]

I made a video about Firefox Bookmarks as well on my channel and I use the default built in bookmarks manager because it’s great. 😎👍

[@BenNeedsATheme4aDream]

Is there a way to keep the cookies of a container. As i'd like to enable "Delete site data and cookies when closing Firefox" without having to relogin in those containers.

[@michael_tunnell]

That function is to remove the cookies, if you want to save cookies don't delete them on closing. For better isolation, don't use the non container section of Firefox that way you can keep stuff very separate

[@BenNeedsATheme4aDream]

@@michael_tunnell thats exactly how im using it currently. I guess one has to conpromise somewhere. Thanks

[@scarabams]

Thanks!

[@michael_tunnell]

You're welcome 👍

[@danif620]

Hi, i have a question. How are firefox containers different than brave/chrome/chromium profiles?

[@michael_tunnell]

The profile system chromium browsers have requires you to switch back and forth between them. Firefox Containers are available at all times in a single window. You can have as many as you want and have tabs for all of them sitting side by side.

[@62bonnieville]

subbed and liked. Oddly the only way I found your channel (even though I look for linux stuff all the time) was by opening this thing I found in Firefox that said open in new container tab. Never saw it before, don't know how it got there, figured I give it a try. I love freedom and privacy and therefore linux and firefox and hate big tech.

[@ronsingh]

I wonder if this works with Firefox-ESR? There are no notes on the add-n link, but I suppose I could try it and see if it works. Great video, so very informative! Thank you Sir!

[@michael_tunnell]

You're welcome and yes it should work fine for the latest ESR

[@BenjaminLStewart]

Thanks for this. I find that containers do not sync when setting them up on multiple computers.

[@michael_tunnell]

Containers should sync if you use Firefox Sync service. I don't use that service though I can not say for sure.

[@ramialaich6895]

how can i get notification for everytab that I got new email if I dignistued that tab for X mail?

[@michael_tunnell]

You have to agree to allow notifications for every service you login to. I don't use email this way though so I'm not sure the exact process. I use an email client that i login to everything with.

[@trevkiel7950]

This vid was made 3 years ago. Would you still use it? Any alternative/substitutes you like? Pros and cons for those extensions? Any updated advice from you considering the updates of multi tab container extension?

[@michael_tunnell]

I still use Firefox and the containers feature every day. No other browser can do it the same way that Firefox can and honestly I am surprised they werent immediately copied. We interviewed the CEO of Vivaldi on my podcast and he said they were working on it but I dont think it exists there either. I dont use any additional extensions for the containers. In fact, I use even less extensions now. I only use the default container extension and the facebook container because the default container added some features making the shortcuts extension I was using unnecessary. by the way, this video was made 3.9 years ago, just 2 more months for 4 years and wow, watching this back is crazy. I look pretty different now and the audio back then was so bad lol

[@thinkagain5489]

can't believe I just found out about this... I was using 2 browsers FF and Brave with Falkon with no extensions as a third browser. Really helpful extension, im just wondering if im in a container account and I ctrl t to open a new tab.. its not in the same container.. im sure there is a way to do it, but haven't figured it out yet.-- answered my question at 8:30 -- Great Video thank you --also I use KeePassXC as my password Manager and works seemlessly with the containers

[@michael_tunnell]

You can install another extension that lets you do a shortcut of Alt+C for new container tab. I don't remember what the extension is called at the moment but I do plan to make another video on this topic for improving this already awesome workflow

[@thinkagain5489]

@@michael_tunnell ill look around im sure I can find something. I also installed Simpletab Groups to go with Containers and TreeStyle Tab. Works with keeping accounts together which is very handy when you start to get a lot of tabs. But its just another option if I start to feel "cluttered". Really awesome video one of my techy friends just laughed at me and said I have to a lot to learn lol.

[@ricardonunes709]

here is my kind of video/howto, thanks

[@michael_tunnell]

You're welcome, I'm glad you liked it! I'm curious what about it makes it your "kind of howto"?

[@ricardonunes709]

@@michael_tunnell because it's a step by step, not just general talk. could you do a second part using the extension containerise? that would be nice. thank you

[@michael_tunnell]

Oh I see, thanks for the clarification. I agree with the sentiment. I prefer tutorials to get to the point. It's ok to have some extra for context which I did do but when the tutorial starts to try and make it clear and guided. I can talk about containerise in the advanced video for sure :)

[@FakYuhGoogel]

Is there an option to switch between containers? (i. e. you only see tabs of a specific container, all others are hidden)

[@michael_tunnell]

Sure 😎👍, you can do this by installing Simple Tab Groups or Sidebery extensions. Both of these integrate with the containers extension and provide this functionality.

[@FakYuhGoogel]

@@michael_tunnell Thanks! Simple Tab Groups kinda does what I want. Pinned tabs aren't supported, which is sad. But I'll see if I can work with it ;)

[@fuseteam]

the facebook container tab extention kinda of interfers with multi account containers if you want to use multiple facebook accounts

[@michael_tunnell]

Yes, this is true but it's a compromise of security over Facebook convenience. If you are diligent for manually ensuring to only use a container then you could skip the Facebook Container

[@fuseteam]

@@michael_tunnell yep true xD

[@karmitfrog7968]

how to set default certain container on hometab. when i open firefox that container should be there

[@michael_tunnell]

this is not possible by default that i know of. Maybe there is an extension for it in the Mozilla marketplace

[@sifatullahkhan6028]

Great ♥

[@rollandsicard1628]

Please make a video of firefox bookmarks. I need the training very much. Thanks much for your video.

[@michael_tunnell]

Thanks for checking out my content and leaving feedback. I have some good news, I already made the Firefox Bookmarks video and you can check it out here kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIOsqnSrbJ6CqK8

[@iamlegion990]

Would love to see content on security in firefox.. like apparmor hardening, ghacks custom user and prefs.js , customizations etc..

[@michael_tunnell]

interesting idea, I thought about doing a Tor Browser video which is based on Firefox but doing it directly in Firefox might be cool too

[@iamlegion990]

@@michael_tunnell Tor Browser is extreme privacy and security..but not necessarily suitable as a daily driver. Firefox isolation is a fantastic solution with hardening makes for a great daily browser

[@nomdeplume8900]

@@michael_tunnell I personally would be Crazy for a Tor Browser tutorial for beginners cuz I have it however it remains mysterious and I'm lost figuring out how to leverage its great features.

[@Evan1527]

Hello. Can you enable the auto english subtitles/CC? It's easier for me to watch videos with subtitles.

[@eliotcole]

I *love* MAC ... and I use it specifically to automatically open sites in specific containers. The problem with this is that unfortunately there's no "open in this tab THIS TIME" option. Imagine your KZbin example, but you have all Google domains open in the personal container. So you create a new KZbin container, but you can't log in, because when it loads the login ... the login loads in your personal container. 😩 I still wouldn't use anything else ... but this would be a game changing addition.

[@MarioNintendoh]

I, too, am hooked to Firefox because of this awesome feature. I wonder why Google hasn't copied it and made it a standard part of Chrome for the benefit of its users. It would just make sense... you won't see me complaining about it, though :)

[@michael_tunnell]

I talked to the CEO of Vivaldi on an episode of my other podcast, Destination Linux. I asked him about this and he said that the Chromium base makes it difficult to do this feature. They have been looking into doing it for a while but are blocked by how Google made Chromium. Here's the interview, destinationlinux.org/episode-243/

[@OchitomiYT]

Please make the video about the other addon for containers

[@michael_tunnell]

I am planning to do this fairly soon. I have so many things to do :D Tip: don't host 3 podcasts, run a media network and make your own youtube channel . . . its kind of hard lol

[@OchitomiYT]

Yes. Yes also I have 22k. And it's hard to manage all whit work good luck. Please. Just let me some extention. Name for multi container I can't wait

[@ericgodfrey1392]

Hey Michael, great info! Have you tried this linked with foxyproxy, so that each tab can have it's own IP address.. Will that work?

[@ericgodfrey1392]

I am looking for the ability to keep each identity working via a different IP address all the time and all records (cookies) totally separate!

[@michael_tunnell]

That is a very interesting idea! I haven't tried that before

[@ericgodfrey1392]

@@michael_tunnell Actually I found a container proxy plugin that looks like it does a great job on it. combined with your method

[@OchitomiYT]

Brothers two months im waiting firbpart two. Let me know other extension

[@davidong9244]

HOW DO I BOOK MARK MULTIPLE CONTAINERS ?? SAY I HAVE 4 DIFFERENT TABS EACH FROM DIFFERENT CONTAINERS AND I WANT TO SAVE ALL THESE OPENED TABS/CONTAINERS SO I CAN RESTORE THEM ALL AFTER A REBOOT.

[@michael_tunnell]

I think I understand what your are asking and if so It's not an option by default to have containers specifically assigned to a bookmark. This has been a request for many years but the triage team on the project have been a bit of a headache. GitHub nonsense github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/854 Extension that compensates for it addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-url-in-container/

[@davidong9244]

@@michael_tunnell Ofcourse, any upgrade that makes sense is rejected in this stupid world.

[@michael_tunnell]

@@davidong9244 the weird thing is they arent rejecting the idea but the triage team on their github has repeatedly made a dumb decision to insist on forcing 2 different requests into a single thread even though it makes much more sense logistically and organizationally to separate them but for years now, its been a mess. I was able to convince them to stop being dumb but sadly a couple of months ago a new triage member came in and went back to dumb so its back to being a mess. I dont know why they ignored such a request but luckily a community member did make a 3rd party solution I linked above so at least we can do it even if not official.

[@ceomanisha]

Is it possible to save a bunch of tabs in a container tab and access them later?

[@michael_tunnell]

That’s not what containers are for, instead that’s called Tab Grouping which you can get with the extension “Simple Tab Groups”

[@JuicySmoothieFruityBoy]

Did you ever make the advanced video of Firefox containers extensions for the extension?

[@michael_tunnell]

I did not have the chance to make the advanced version yet unfortunately. Sorry.

[@benoyrohit7431]

Is there a way you can use this on your phone?

[@michael_tunnell]

at the moment, it is not available for either Android or iOS but it is being discussed it seems so maybe at some point. I dont think anytime soon though because it has been under discussion for a couple years.

[@fuseteam]

14:00 hey that's me o.o

[@manw3bttcks]

New versions of Firefox has this functionality already built-in but it seems to be me that the plugin is still superior to the less featured version that's embedded in Firefox

[@trevkiel7950]

Also, why did you set it so that this video can't have CC? Could you edit that? It'd be nice for people who are HoH

[@michael_tunnell]

I didnt set that, there is something wrong with the feature on KZbin. The audio is pretty bad so that might be why KZbin didnt generate subtitles for it

[@TheBeeOBee]

I'll take a bookmark system video if you're up for it.

[@ap0ria]

I love Firefox and I agree that container tabs are outstanding. I'll always be frustrated by how poor tab management is within Firefox. I've been refereed to as a "power user" on a few occasions, and I'm always astounded at how bad the tab management design is.

[@BrianMorearty]

My favorite feature of Firefox is the setting called "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently-used order." I know it's not the tab management you're looking for, but I do find it fantastic for quickly going back and forth between two or three tabs. Much better than how Chrome does it.

[@divyanshugogna6152]

Isn't is the same thing as chrome users feature ? which chromium has had for a long long time ?

[@michael_tunnell]

Not at all. Chrome is switching profiles, that switched your entire browser setup. Firefox allows multiple containers being used at the same time. You never have to switch back and forth like Chrome, Firefox Containers can be used in as many tabs as you want all at once.

[@dominikbaricak9589]

how can i open all websites in specific container? This is main feature lol :D

[@michael_tunnell]

Why would you want this? This defeats the point of having the extension. If it's all in one container then just don't use a container. You can specify sites per container but I don't see any value of opening everything in a single container since that will accomplish the same thing as if you aren't using it at all

[@jeanime734]

can i do this making multiple paypal account?

[@michael_tunnell]

You can use it to login to as many accounts on any website you want. Its not used to make accounts anywhere but you can use it to login to any.

[@TheMadHaxor]

btw, multi-ac is completely acceptable :P

[@douglasprinceart]

Has anyone gotten the bug when it duplicates lots of containers?

[@michael_tunnell]

I have been using this feature for years and have not seen any container duplication bugs

[@douglasprinceart]

Make that video. : D

[@mekuranda]

So that's interesting....way more useful than ICE then ?

[@michael_tunnell]

Depending on your perspective maybe. I think ICE has a lot of potential value as well and having both would be fantastic

[@barrrylincoln]

FireFox is much faster with Windows 11 but uses massive amounts of memory. How can you set it to use less windows? In Task Manager I had 20 instances of FireFox. I like it better than Edge or Chrome but this is a deal breaker. Edit: I have 8 Gb of Ram.

[@michael_tunnell]

There is not much you can do to lower the amount of resources used by a web browser. Web Browsers is one of the heaviest types of applications so they are only going to be resource optimized compared to each other. You can however optimize Firefox a bit. First of all, it could be an extension you are using not Firefox itself so check that first. Go to your settings and make sure Hardware Acceleration is active. If it isn't, turn it on. This is in Settings -> General panel, go down to the Performance section. It will say "Use hardware acceleration when available". There could be a corrupted profile in your Firefox if you are having memory leaks but try the other stuff first. This is probably as far my help can go as I do not use Windows and there might be something specific to Windows. I use Linux so it is a bit more optimized on Linux, but even on Linux Firefox will still take a lot in compared to most applications because thats just what browser do.

[@mtaha4813]

Could you open auto-subtitles for those don't know English :)

[@michael_tunnell]

There should be auto subtitles already

[@mtaha4813]

@@michael_tunnell sorry but i couldn't find it. Anyway thanks for information:)

[@chrisjw8789]

Just do a quick demo of the containers in the first minute, to see if we want them.

[@michael_tunnell]

You can't "just do a quick demo" of something that needs to be explained how it works to show the usefulness of it. I also have timestamps in all my videos. But . . . Noted

[@peltier8]

Please explain why you think Firefox has the best bookmarks. I've moved away from Vivaldi as I am committing myself fully to open source and want to help keep choice alive. I'll admit, it has not been easy but the stakes are too high.

[@michael_tunnell]

There are many reasons but the biggest reason needs to be demonstrated so I'll do that in a video real soon

[@peltier8]

@@michael_tunnell PS: using containers after watching your video and after one night wondering how I lived without them.

[@michael_tunnell]

I know right? Firefox Containers is such an awesome feature it pretty much destroys the idea of using any other browser for me lol

[@michael_tunnell]

I just posted a video to my channel about Firefox Bookmarks :)

[@Michael-it6gb]

But Firefox isnt open source. Is it?

[@michael_tunnell]

Yes, Firefox is absolutely an open source browser.

[@Michael-it6gb]

@@michael_tunnell ok. I looked it up a few years back and dont remember it being open. I didn't bother to look it up now cuz im on my phone.

[@michael_tunnell]

Firefox has always been open source since it was first released in 2002. In fact, they wrote their own open source license called MPL, Mozilla Public License which is used by many projects.

[@yuu-kun3461]

Wait, no temporary containers? Smh. I use that even more.

[@michael_tunnell]

this is an introductory video for people who have never heard of it much less used it. That is an extra extension and I mentioned at the end that I will do a follow up with more advanced features. This will be a pat of that advanced video.

[@yuu-kun3461]

@@michael_tunnell Don't stress it. I was joking around :)

[@michael_tunnell]

Ahh I see. Hard to tell sometimes :)

[@trustenbaker8766]

How do I remove current tab. Let me explain Top left of my screen it says. File Edit History Bookmarks Tools Help Firefox Container Tabs: The best feature! Here's how to use them! ........................................................................................ The part where it shows what page I'm on, it's taking up space. How do I get rid of it? I wish I could post a picture here. But it's just a tab that shows what page I'm on. Then under that it has all the normal controls, showing the back arrow, and forward arrow and the reload with the home button next to it.

[@michael_tunnell]

I'm not sure what you mean. You could join our forum if you want at DLNForum.com and you'll be able to share a link to a screenshot there 😎👍

[@trustenbaker8766]

@@michael_tunnell Ok I'll do that real quick thanks

[@trustenbaker8766]

@@michael_tunnell Well I signed up. But to save time where would you like for me to post at?

[@trustenbaker8766]

@@michael_tunnell I put it under "Help Desk"

[@smartnexus1096]

As far as I know Facebook container offers no benefits over multi-user account containers... Facebook container is just more normie friendly if you just want to isolate Facebook from the rest of your internet activities. On multi-user accounts you can create Facebook container yourself if you want to.

[@michael_tunnell]

It has many benefits overall normal. The biggest benefit is the entrance and removal from the container when going to Facebook and leaving the Facebook websites. Regular container will leave you in a container after leaving a website but with Facebook Container it will automatically pull you out of the container when you click a link to a third party website. There's also the benefit of blocking Facebook JavaScript running on various sites

[@Khyree_Holmes]

No Sound.

[@michael_tunnell]

There is sound

[@Khyree_Holmes]

@@michael_tunnell Hm, okay! must've been my phone!