Multiple instances support

[regagain]

Thank you for this great add-on!

It would be great to have support for multiple instances. I guess it would require some kind of UI that lets the user choose which one of the their instances they want to use every time there's an interaction. What do you think?

[rugk]

One important question would be:

• Is it enough if you have a popup or so, where you could select which account you want to currently redirect to?
• or should it be possible to chose this each time an interaction/follow request appears?

[regagain]

Is it enough if you have a popup or so, where you could select which account you want to currently redirect to?

I think this would be enough!

[rugk]

Okay, maybe I'll wait for some more opinions.

Because, actually, the "choose each time" mode may be easier to implement… :laughing:

[regagain]

Both options are fine with me tbh :)

[2rs2ts]

I would like to suggest that, if it could support firefox containers, a workflow of one account per container (which is what I do, for the most part) would prevent the need for a mandatory "ask each time" flow. Just some food for thought, though!

[rugk]

Indeed, that is a great idea. The API doc for that is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/contextualIdentities and the permission could (and should) be optional and be requested when a setting is enabled via the PermissionRequest lib.

Note also when we have the tab, we can then retrieve the contextual (cookie store) ID of that to find out what context we currently have: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/Tab#cookiestoreid

Example: https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/contextual-identities

Note any more design help or implementation help is certainly welcome here.

[testman42]

I'm happy to see progress being made about this, as #92 is an issue that I encountered as well.