Apart from signing into multiple accounts or isolating pages under the same domain, is there any advantage to using Firefox containers from a security standpoint or do you think that Total Cookie Protection is sufficient for most use cases / threat models?

  • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I switched from containers to total cookie protection just for quality of life. It takes a lot less micromanagement of settings and still provides strong protection. I’ve not looked back since, and yes, I think it’s more than sufficient for most people.

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      I went from temp containers with cookie auto delete to just containers and assuming total cookie protection is enabled and doing its thing. The temp containers would frequently mess important processes such as payments (different domain/container/new cookies/session)

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      1 year ago

      What’s total cookie protection?

      I just installed containers and doesn’t seem to take any micromanagement. You can set it to automatically open certain URLs in certain containers.

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    1 year ago

    Nowadays cookies are becoming obsolete in the fingerprint process (of the users) then the major utility of containers will become obsolete too, in my opinion.

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    1 year ago

    One thing that is really handy for development is that you can set up any container to use a proxy server. I use that a lot to reduce the sheer amount of crap that would get sent to the proxy if it were enabled at the system level or in the regular browser network settings. It really keeps the noise down.

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    1 year ago

    Anything that is Facebook/Meta is in its own container for me. That way they can “track” as much as they want, they won’t see new or even accurate Info.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve had mine set up since launch and it works great. got certain types of sites/browsing dedicated to certain containers, along with cookie autodelete (it respects containers so can have settings per container) to delete cookies unless i whitelist a site.

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    1 year ago

    I rarely use the containers. Instead I prefer to seperate activities with different versions of firefox. I use Firefox ESR for normal browsing, Firefox for VPN browsing and Firefox Dev/Chromium for school. I also use a different color scheme on each firefox so I do not confuse them.

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    1 year ago

    I use it for YouTube. I have a throwaway account that I only use for my subscriptions. Dont use any other Google things, so I am signed out outside of that container.

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    1 year ago

    Absolutely, you could have a container with a cookie exception for a site and always stay logged in while not being tracked trought your whole browser