1621276 - Multi-Account containers should have a mode that works like the Facebook Container extension

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Stavros Korokithakis]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:73.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0

Steps to reproduce:

I downloaded the Firefox Container extension, and it's exactly what's necessary for me for Facebook. I briefly thought there should be one for Google as well, but I realized Multi-Account containers should have a mode that works this way.

Currently, there are two issues:

1. Multi-Account Containers cannot accept a list of domains that should always be run in the container.
2. Links not in that list cannot automatically run outside the container.

There should be a mode that accepts a list of domains that will automatically open in that container (and any subdomain should automatically do the same, so if I add google.com, photos.google.com will also open in that container). Any link not in that list should open outside the container, even if the link is clicked inside it.

Actual results:

As above.

Expected results:

As above.

Comment 1

[jonathan.robertson]

It appears there's an add-on that does basically the same thing. I too would love to see this as base functionality.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 3

[Andrew Swan [:aswan]]

This doesn't belong in the webextensions product, it looks like Core:Security is where other general containers bugs go...