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"Remember my decision for this site" doesn't remember decision to override default container
- Multi-Account Containers Version: 6.2.5
- Operating System + Version: Windows 10 Education
- Firefox Version: 75.0
- Other installed Add-ons + Version + Enabled/Disabled-Status: Switch Container Plus v0.19
Actual behavior
Every time I navigate to Google Drive from a "Personal" container when "School" is set as the default, the extension asks me if I really want to do that, even when I tell it to remember my decision.
Expected behavior
After telling the extension to "remember my decision for this site", it will stop asking my permission to override the default container I set for that site.
Just to make the use case clear:
Most of the time I want to use my "School" account. So when I open up a new tab (which will start in the blank container) and go to Google Drive, it should switch to my "School" container. But there are still lots of times that I want to use my "Personal" account, so if I open up a "Personal" tab and go to Google Drive, it should just stay in my "Personal" container!
Steps to reproduce
- Navigate to a site in container A
- In the add-on, check "Always open in container A"
- Open up a new tab in container B
- Navigate to the same site
- When the extension asks, "Open this site in your assigned container?" check "Remember my decision for this site" and then click "Open in container B"
- Open a new tab in container B and navigate to the same site
- The same screen will appear asking for your permission
Notes
I know the base/blank container is titled "Default", but when I say default container I mean the container a site will default to.
I feel like this is almost worth a feature request for a less aggressive "Always open in" setting. Maybe the current behavior works for some people, but as a user I expect the following behavior:
I want this site to open in container A by default, but if I explicitly navigate there from container B, then open the site in container B!
It seems pretty hard to accidentally open a container tab, so I don't get why it's so insistent on double checking that I actually want to use that container.
From the design of the add-on, only "one site" can be "remembered" in a container at a time. You can visit the site in multiple containers, but it will "always remember this site in this container".
No cross-overs of website assignment in containers. Every container has its own unique "storage session". This is what allows users to use multiple accounts on various websites and this is also what protects the users from trackers and/or potential hijackers and what not. Facebook & Google are well known for tracking everything you do and everywhere you go.
The purpose of MA-C is to block this type of tracking. If you sign into Google, they can only see the activities you do in that specific "storage session". They will not be able to track what you're doing outside the container. They can only track what sites you've been on inside that container.
If you're on GitHub and using Google's container, yup they are tracking you.
Unless you separate it. Assign 'GitHub' to "X" container. Boom, Google can't track you. This is outside their "storage session'. X container is a new storage session.
We all have personal and private things in life, and of course they overlap. Imagine this
Personal (School/Work) | Private
abc | def
This works with containers & tracking too. You don't want any private things into personal right? and vice versa right?
The reason they don't allow this crossover is because if you assign "FaceBook.com" into both Personal & Private containers, FaceBook will know this is indeed only "one person".
Container's "divide" identities. With individual containers, they see 2 different users, not one.
Sounds like you use Personal Google account for School use as well. (I could be wrong). I used to use one FireFox Profile for everything too, both Personal and Private use...and then I learned to use multiple FireFoxes.
If it helps, you can use an add-on like "Containers theme". it'll switch colours to whatever container you're on.
Hey @Solid-Ice8 thanks for the response, but I think there's some misunderstanding. I have two separate Google accounts, one for School and one for Personal. Each is signed into their respective container with separate cookies. I'm not asking for cross-overs of website information, I'm talking about behavior of the optional "Always open in" feature in the add-on menu. The existing implementation already lets me do what I want, just in too many steps.
If I go to https://drive.google.com from a new tab, I want to be switched to my School container (i.e. school account) because that's what I use most often. However, if I explicitly open a Personal container tab (I now intend to use my personal identity), then when I go to https://drive.google.com it should let me stay in that container so I can access my personal account. 2 different Google accounts for 2 different containers. I don't have any account signed in on the "Default" container, so every time I open a new tab and go to https://drive.google.com it takes me to the landing page to register, which gets annoying real quick. Or if I check "Always open in container School", then it will now properly redirect my "Default" container tabs, but my "Personal" container tabs always require me to confirm my choice.
Again, the add-on already lets you do what I want, I'm just asking for them to make it easier.
I see, maybe a built-in feature like FireFox itself. "Switch Container Tab"?
I feel like "Default to container A" most clearly describes what I want, because the only intervention it should enforce is "Default" --> "A" (literally, from default to A). Or perhaps after clicking "Always open in container A" it could show a dropdown to pick either "From any container" or "From default container" so you can choose how strict it should be.
In any case, they need to fix the wording or behavior of "Remember my decision for this site". In every other UI out there, "Remember my decision" means "Stop asking me this question", but in the current state of the add-on it doesn't stop asking unless you pick the blue button.
Even having a way to clear all of the "Open this site in your assigned container?" settings in one go would be a nice feature. I keep getting prompted for https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ and no matter if I have "Remember my decision for this site" it will keep prompting me every single time telling me that I've asked it to open in my old container (it doesn't seem to save the settings at all). If it can't save the new container setting for that site, it would be nice to have the option to remove that setting entirely so it stops prompting me. It's quite annoying.
This behavior still has not been resolved and "Remember my decision for this site" continues to be a useless checkbox.
+1 for this one. Unfortunately making this addon very annoying to use as it asks each time I visit for example youtube.
If it can't save the new container setting for that site, it would be nice to have the option to remove that setting entirely so it stops prompting me. It's quite annoying.
I had same situation. Here's how I've found to manually reset it for a site (tested in Nightly)
Go to about:debugging -> This Firefox -> Click Inspect on the addon (or go to about:devtools-toolbox?id=%40testpilot-containers&type=extension directly)
Go to Extension Storage and simply delete the entry associated with the site (will probably have to expand the Key column to see which it is)
That's it :)
Go to
about:debugging->This Firefox-> ClickInspecton the addon (or go toabout:devtools-toolbox?id=%40testpilot-containers&type=extensiondirectly)Go to
Extension Storageand simply delete the entry associated with the site (will probably have to expand theKeycolumn to see which it is)That's it :)
@jcreigh this way to stop opening in default container is really a "programmers way". :) There is some simple from container configuration UI. See detailed in https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/2173#issuecomment-951979407
@achernyakevich-sc
There is some simple from container configuration UI.
I clicked through to the issue linked in that issue and then was finally able to find it by right clicking on the page once I open the website in the container.
That is... rather unintuitive. I had tried right clicking on all the other container related stuff to no effect, went through all my settings and menus and found nothing, unless I'm blind. Literally never thought to look in the context menu there. :s
Ah well, my google-fu failed to find the other issues :) Glad there's a slightly less clunky way I can use next time. Thanks
@jcreigh Sorry, for the case that link I provided reference to many possibilities to achieve result that require many clicks and analysis. :)
To simplify for all who will check this issue comments, below there are few direct instructions (you could use any of these):
- on the page open in the target container call context menu (right click) and you will get menu like here - just untick
Aways Open in This Container. - click to MAC button on toolbar -> in opened UI click
Manage Containers-> then click to your container (in your case it looks like it should beShoppingcontainer) -> in opened UI clickManage Sites List...-> find URL of site that you would like to do not always open in the container and click bin icon. Close configuration window and restart Firefox.
Every time I search something with the browser bar it asks where I want to open it because somehow the whole google domain is "remembered" to always ask me and there is no way to remove it because the plugin doesn't have any settings. This is ridiculous.
On macos there is no MAC button on the toolbar: click to MAC button on toolbar -> in opened UI click Manage Containers The context menu is also empty for this extension
On macos there is no MAC button on the toolbar: click to MAC button on toolbar -> in opened UI click Manage Containers The context menu is also empty for this extension
@0xFlo Probably you either removed it by right click to toolbar and click to Customize Toolbar... or it is is hidden in collapsed menu on right of toolbar like Firefox View on my screenshot (my MAC button I moved to other part of toolbar so it is not visible on the screenshot):
You can fix it by selecting a default decision container via the plugin icon in the browser bar. Then you can unselect it again and it’ll be gone. Don’t know why they made this logic so complicated but hey it worked
On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 at 15:37, magnus @.***> wrote:
This is driving me crazy
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Yep. 2023, and this still needs to be fixed. I love the plug-in, but this is almost a deal breaker. Every time I click anything, "Do you want to open in........????"
Just go away. I don't need an extra click on every interaction. Remember my decision, or just default to the standard container until I tell you otherwise. Sorry, this turned into a bit of a rant!
I switched to Arc browser, never looked back 🥲
On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 15:44, Alek Mlynek @.***> wrote:
Yep. 2023, and this still needs to be fixed. I love the plug-in, but this is almost a deal breaker. Every time I click anything, "Do you want to open in........????"
Just go away. I don't need an extra click on every interaction. Remember my decision, or just default to the standard container until I tell you otherwise. Sorry, this turned into a bit of a rant!
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This is so annoying I can't believe this is still a thing in 2023. Just get rid of this extra screen no matter what it takes/cost/whatever. Remove this entirely.
@jcreigh Sorry, for the case that link I provided reference to many possibilities to achieve result that require many clicks and analysis. :)
To simplify for all who will check this issue comments, below there are few direct instructions (you could use any of these):
* on the page open in the target container call context menu (right click) and you will get [menu like here](https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/2104#issuecomment-898814043) - just untick `Aways Open in This Container`. * click to MAC button on toolbar -> in opened UI click `Manage Containers` -> then click to your container (in your case it looks like it should be `Shopping` container) -> in opened UI click `Manage Sites List...` -> find URL of site that you would like to do not always open in the container and click bin icon. Close configuration window and restart Firefox.
Didn't work for me. After deleting all unneeded links. And reopen browser all deleted links restored.
@maxtar Probably after restart it get restored settings because you have settings synchronization turned on. You could try to turn sync off and try again after that.
@maxtar Probably after restart it get restored settings because you have settings synchronization turned on. You could try to turn sync off and try again after that.
Yes, I have enabled synchronization. But I need it.
Then you could temporary turn off the Sync, take sure that problem is not reproduce and if it is so then address problem to the Sync issue (please search the corresponding one in this repository). As I could guess problem could be related to wrong time set on your workstations - syncing local workstation's time with internet time could solve the problem.
Then you could temporary turn off the Sync, take sure that problem is not reproduce and if it is so then address problem to the Sync issue (please search the corresponding one in this repository). As I could guess problem could be related to wrong time set on your workstations - syncing local workstation's time with internet time could solve the problem.
Will try. But time synchronized via internet.
@achernyakevich-sc looks like after disabling synchronization, deleting sites from container and restart browser it works. But why need restarting browser? This is not obviously behavior.
@maxtar "restarting browser" I took from your comment:
Didn't work for me. After deleting all unneeded links. And reopen browser all deleted links restored.
So I included it to the test case to localize possible root of problem. So as it works when synchronization is turned off it just confirm that issues is not related to "Remember my decision for this site" feature but the most probably it is related to Synchronization. :)