Multi-Account Containers to “Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox”

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  • multi-account-containers

    Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs that preserve your privacy. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities or accounts simultaneously.

    There's no obvious reason to grant the nativeMessaging permission during extension installation, nativeMessaging can be declared as an optional permission since Firefox 87 [1], and Firefox Multi-Account Containers 8.0.2 only supports Firefox 91 or newer.

    There could be a bug related to declaring nativeMessaging as an optional permission, though that is not mentioned in the pull request [2], so this was probably a mistake or oversight.

    [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

    [2] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/215...

  • firefox-container-proxy

    [Firefox extension] Assign a proxy to a Firefox container

    Note that this still leaks DNS lookups. You can use https://github.com/bekh6ex/firefox-container-proxy instead until they fix that.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • temporary-containers

    Firefox Add-on that lets you open automatically managed disposable containers

    I wish they fixed the long standing, annoying sync bug that makes Firefox download 7000+ containers every once in a while. Some of us hosed our sync accounts in one way or another (through the container duplication bug in m-a-c itself [1] or the temporary containers extension [2]) and it's impossible to recover - once you reach the storage quota on the sync server, the sync server refuses all write operations and delete call apparently counts as a write.

    [1] https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/371

    [2] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...

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