Suggestion: Define container assignemnts for URL patterns

Firefox Containers
#1

I like the extension conceptually a lot.

However I think the current usability is not good enough for day to day use. I would like to be able to define Container types for URL patterns in order to just click on a bookmark and rely on that it is opened in the desired container type.

In addition I think the link clicking behaviour should be configurable or selectable by right click. I may not want that a link is opened in the same container type.

All in all a great feature with a lot of potential! :slight_smile:

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#2

Thanks for the feedback. We anticipated many users would want this feature. There’s already an issue in our GItHub repo that you could upvote too:

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#3

Absolutely love this extension as it helps me at work, by separating SSO identities from each other. Though I’d love it even more if it allowed to fine-tune the url it assignes to a container.

Some websites have areas accessible only by certain identities - for me it’s StackOverflow for teams, where a team area is defined by a prefix in url path section. If the extension allowed me to manually set the url pattern to assign to a container, I would be able to open team area in needed container using my corporate account, while the public area using my personal account

#4

Some websites include sections that can only be accessed by specific identities; for me, this applies to StackOverflow’s teams part, where a prefix in the url route portion designates the team area. I could open a team area in a required container using my corporate account and the public area using my personal account if the extension allowed me to manually set the url pattern to assign to a container.

#5

Imagine creating unique tags in each of your gmail and google workplace accounts and then adding these as bookmarks with a specific Firefox keyword that brings you right to that container.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/tagEmailFamily Shared Family Email Account
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/tagEmailWork Workplace Account
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/tagEmail2ndJob Contracting gig
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/tagEmailPersonal would open your personal email container.

Supporting URLs would provide this ability would save us hours of work productivity each month.

But of course Mozilla’s new a.i. will vacuum up all of these things, finally allows us to search our hundreds of thousands of bookmark folders and clean our windows.