Firefox browser builds and forks have a feature called "Container Tabs". In
the browser settings you can add, edit and remove these tabs or categories.
If you want to increase your online privacy without going as far as using TOR
Browser we can use these Container Tabs to assist us.
This can be useful to keep work accounts away from personal accounts, at the
same or different providers. As well as allowing multiple user accounts at the
same provider without having to logout of one and back into another. It also
keeps tracking cookies contained (heh) to that specific "category" that you
configure helping to eliminate the process of tracking you from service to
service.
This feature will not protect you against a spying Internet Service Provider
(ISP), a spying Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, or a TOR exit node
watching your unencrypted traffic.
Under the "Settings" for "Enable Container Tabs" exists a checkbox labeled
"Select a container for each tab". This requires us to select a container to
use when starting a new tab. Alone this can help us manually load sites into
specific containers, but this could get annoying over time. There exists an
extension named "Firefox Multi-Account Containers", which allows us to setup
specific sites to always load in a specific container.
After loading the addon, browse to your normal sites and start assigning them
to specific containers, creating new containers if a website does not fit into
that "category". You can do this by clicking the addons button in your toolbar
and then choosing "Always Open This Site in..."
I suggest something to the following for containers.
- Social Media
- Banking
- Cryptocurrency
- Personal
- Work
- Media
- Shopping
As of this post, Chrome and various forks do not have this feature. There
exists a feature called persona's which you can use, by clicking the user icon
in the top right and making different "Users". It does not allow you to have
multiple categories between tabs, it seems to want to have a separate browser
window for each "category" with that particular profile owning all tabs.
:: Additional Addons
- uBlock Origin
Block ads, trackers, and other junk.
- Privacy Possom
Privacy Possum monkey wrenches common commercial tracking methods by
reducing and falsifying the data gathered by tracking companies.
- Cookie Quick Manager
When setting up your container tabs, this addon will help you 'clean' your
non-container cookies and such. You can clear specific cookies thus manually
clearing login sessions and other data.
- Sponsor Block
Skip over annoying bits of YouTube videos.
- Temporary Containers
Open tabs, websites, and links in automatically managed disposable
containers which isolate the data websites store (cookies, storage, and
more) from each other, enhancing your privacy and security while you browse.
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