Launch container tab via command line
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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)
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(Reporter: ben, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0
Steps to reproduce:
firefox -new-tab https://example.com --container "Personal"
Actual results:
Open a new tab to example.com
Expected results:
Open a new "Personal" container tab to example.com
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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Hi Ben Thayer,
Thank you for your suggestion.
This could be a good enhancement, hopefully it will be taken into consideration in the future.
I'll mark this as New for visibility.
Regards,
Estanislao
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Comment 3•2 years ago
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+1. I'm creating a cross-platform browser+profile selector app for external links and would love to support firefox containers.
+1. Just wanted to chime in that this feature would be very helpful for me.
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Comment 5•2 years ago
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+1 From me. I'd love to see this. I use container tabs pretty heavily and can see this making interesting integrations with other applications more possible.
See here for an example use case:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/issues/7919#note_1545178
I'd highly appreciate this feature to allow the usage of different containers directly via KeePass URLs to isolate different clients from each other. Currently, I use profiles to achieve a similar functionality:
cmd://{FIREFOX} -url -new-instance -P {GROUP} "https://john.doe.com"
{GROUP} being replaced by the customer name. That way each customer gets it's own environment when I e.g. access their intranet etc.
But unfortunately, profiles are not that user friendly:
- Not possible to switch between profiles without opening a new window via about:profiles
- It's not visible which profile(s) you are currently using
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See bug report https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542189
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