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Yes. Containers will be enabled by default in the regular release without the need to install the extension or flip a preference in about:config.

It's also planned to integrate the ability to assign a website to a specific container. There's no information available on the other extra features from Multi-Account Containers like VPN/Proxy per container for the moment.

You can follow the development on bugzilla https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?component=Container...

We implemented this in the Daily build of the desktop app last year, using a staging environment for Firefox Sync. But Firefox Sync is called Firefox Sync because it’s built for Firefox. Thunderbird profiles, in comparison, have a lot more data points. This meant we had to build something completely different. As we started to spin up Thunderbird Pro, we decided it made more sense to have a Thunderbird account that would manage everything, including Sync. Unfortunately, this meant a lot of delays. So Sync is still on our radar, and we hope to have it next year, barring further complications. Source: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/state-of-the-thunder-mo...

In other words, it was more work to adapt Firefox Sync than they thought at the beginning. It's still actively developed so finger crossed it's coming soon.

Exactly this. Plus, I rarely have over 20 tabs and even when I'm close to that number I mainly use the 10 first ones. Vertical tabs is a cool feature but both modes are useful depending your needs.

Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit but Mozilla Corporation which develop Firefox is a for-profit entity.

There are other subsidiaries under the foundation umbrella like Mozilla.ai and MZLA/Thunderbird. This isn't something uncommon for large entity and there are many advantages. For example, it gives more freedom in term of decision making and spending to projects that aren't targeting the exact same consumer segment. Think about Thunderbird. Under Mozilla Corporation, it was always in the shadow of Firefox. Now, it's striving as an independent project.

WFM. You might want to either ask help on support.mozilla.org or file a bug on bugzilla.mozilla.org if you have a step to reproduce.

There's also a nice website to see what landed in a specific Nightly build https://mrotherguy.github.io/fx-nightly-changelog/

It's easier to do small releases often. You have less chances to break multiple parts of the application. You also don't end up in a cycle of "Wait! I'll add just one more thing" which is very common with projects tend to less often.

> If you can provide a citation for this claim I'd get a subscription today. I don't pay for their side projects because I don't want them to take it as a signal of demand for VPNs, but if it's truly 100% profit I'd be willing to risk it.

Fair enough. They publish their annual financial report but it isn't splitted per project so it's hard to know for a fact with the public information we have access to. However, it isn't unreasonable to think that at the very least a percentage of the smaller products revenues are reinjected elsewhere in the organization (e.g Firefox) since the goal seems to be to diversify their income sources.

> People keep saying this, but given that it's never been tried you have no proof. And even if it were, what harm is there in opening up one more option for those of us who want to be really clear about what we're paying for?

It's been tried over and over in the FOSS community. Few projects are able to get decent money with donations (e.g. Thunderbird). However, it's nowhere near the complexity of a web browser.

For example, Thunderbird made almost $7M (USD) in 2023 for an average of $20 per donation which is 350k users out of 20M monthly active users [1]. Firefox has 10 times that number of users so we could estimate that they'd make $70M/year. That's far from $500M/year they're doing right now.

[1]: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...

Folks on HN are good to talk the talk but not really to walk the walk. Not only they could give to developers or company like Igalia but they could also get a Firefox Relay/VPN subscription. They don't even need to use it and their money is going to be 100% profit for MoCo. Also, if we are realistic, the total money in donation that Mozilla could get would probably represent a drop in the ocean compared to their annual budget and the amount of money you need to develop a (complete) browser. It's way more complicated than creating yet another chrome skin.

1. It was for squingz 2. No one is forcing you to use Firefox. You don't even pay for it. You should have read the Open Source license buddy.

You can do the same with Firefox. Simply use Beta, Dev Edition or Nightly. The first two are very stable. You just need to flip `xpinstall.signatures.required` to `false` in about:config.

Enlighten us. What's that long list of questionable behaviours?

> I run many open source repos myself and you can bet that when people take the trouble to interact with me I make it my mission to listen to what they say and treat them with respect.

You clearly look like a very polite person /s

+1 for the trust factor. However, it's totally fine to use another instance. That's the beauty of the fediverse, you can use whatever provider you want or even spin your own.

It is a fork of Elk.

Before FPI, containers were a good way to isolate cookies. Nowadays, it's a bit less useful for that. However, it still offers a nice solution to connect to multiple accounts simultaneously, have a different vpn/proxy per container. Also, it could be extended to isolate more things (e.g. different level of privacy settings, history, extensions, etc)

Per container.

Mainly these two things: * Assign sites to a specific per container * Set VPN/Proxy per container

It has its own client application so it's a little more than simply relabelling a product. I find Mozilla client easier for less techy people so I guess both products complement themselve by targeting a different subset of the population.

Yes. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-extension-shortc...

You can still pin an extension to the toolbar and if it's already pinned Firefox will honor your setting in Fx 109+. IIRC, we can also in the extension manifest.json force the addon to show in the toolbar by default.

It landed about a month ago. I'm the contributor who implement this patch and I already have another one in the work that would let you focus the filter box when you type "/".

Some devs in the Pine community are working on an open source firmware for the modem (e.g. https://twitter.com/biktorgj/status/1357217053745250304)

That'd be a maintenance nightmare...