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I can forgive the somewhat limited user interface for setting these up that is in the stock add-on, but the lack of automatic syncing of rules to all computers

I can forgive the somewhat limited user interface for setting these up that is in the stock add-on, but the lack of automatic syncing of rules to all computers with the same Firefox account is really frustrating to deal with. Putting in the effort to get them all set up nicely and then having them either blown away (I think this happened once...) or needing to get that over to another computer has made me limit my use to fewer containers than I probably would otherwise use.

alyandon 7y ago
That particular bug (having my container setup get blown away) has happened to me several times along with other bugs like not properly restoring tabs in the designated container when you restart FF to apply an update. Bugs like that would be forgivable if they'd at least provide a way to export/import setups.
t0mk 7y ago
There's a plugin for exporting the rules https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-sync/?src=collection https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-sy...
briffle 7y ago
There is a plugin that will sync the actual containers, but it doesn't sync your rules you setup to always open site X in your personal container, etc. Without that, its useless to me. There is a bugzilla [0] for it, and 3 years ago, it was said they were going to look more into it, and nothing really since.. Its frustrating. [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288858 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288858
- groovecoder 7y ago
  M-A-C dev here ... We're actually pretty deep into the work of adding sync to M-A-C. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/1611 https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/161... Predictably, synchronizing data is complicated, so it's taking a while and we're trying to do it in a way that doesn't destroy any existing data. So we'll be doing some heavy internal testing on it before we release it. But it's definitely coming.
e40 7y ago
I was all set to try this, over the syncing in Chrome of different Google accounts. Ah, well, when they get them syncing I will try it.

alyandon 7y ago

That particular bug (having my container setup get blown away) has happened to me several times along with other bugs like not properly restoring tabs in the designated container when you restart FF to apply an update. Bugs like that would be forgivable if they'd at least provide a way to export/import setups.

t0mk 7y ago

There's a plugin for exporting the rules https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-sync/?src=collection https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-sy...

briffle 7y ago

There is a plugin that will sync the actual containers, but it doesn't sync your rules you setup to always open site X in your personal container, etc. Without that, its useless to me. There is a bugzilla [0] for it, and 3 years ago, it was said they were going to look more into it, and nothing really since.. Its frustrating. [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288858 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288858

groovecoder 7y ago
M-A-C dev here ... We're actually pretty deep into the work of adding sync to M-A-C. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/1611 https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/161... Predictably, synchronizing data is complicated, so it's taking a while and we're trying to do it in a way that doesn't destroy any existing data. So we'll be doing some heavy internal testing on it before we release it. But it's definitely coming.

e40 7y ago

I was all set to try this, over the syncing in Chrome of different Google accounts. Ah, well, when they get them syncing I will try it.