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Comment by AdmiralAsshat | Hacker News Reader

For anyone using Firefox, as soon as Containers became available outside of Nightly, I created one just for Facebook. Is the "Facebook Container" any different than what I already made?

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It sets up the Facebook container so you'll automatically switch to it whenever you go to Facebook. If you checked "Always open in Facebook" in the containers dropdown while on facebook.com, then checked "Remember my decision for this site" before clicking "Open in Facebook container" when opening facebook in a different container, it's the same.

The extension also cleans up Facebook cookies from your other containers. This extension is what got me using containers, but I deleted it after I realized it doesn't do anything after the initial installation.

Edit: Apparently this extension also prevents you from opening other sites in the Facebook container.

Not really, the only difference I've found is the Facebook container plugin won't let any other non-facebook owned URL use that container.

I didn't notice it did that! That's actually very nice and I wish it were something I could do for other containers too.

see https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook and https://github.com/containers-everywhere/contain-google

Mozilla has an extension so you can do this without Nightly. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

I mostly use it to manage the 3 google accounts i use daily

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