| 20 May 2024 |
 mops | * Here with another round of lost containers. This is a multi device setup using firefox sync. On the affected mac I use Firefox stable and nightly. Currently both show the default containers. On another mac I still see all my custom containers as expected. I don't think the containers are lost, but I don't know how to get them back. Well, and I just lost them on the other mac as well, where Firefox got updated to version 126. I tried disabling and re-enabling sync and now ended up with the 4 default containers.
Should I file an issue and if yes, how can I provide useful information so that this can be prevented in the future?
Edit: In add-on preferences when I disable Enable synchronization and re-enable suddenly my custom containers are back. That is great and I am happy I can continue work. But if it could be fixed to not lose custom containers in the first place, that would be very much appreciated. This may cause frustration and be a deal-braker for users, if they don't find, how to recover.
Apparently URL assignments were lost, which is not great.
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| 21 May 2024 |
|  @gersonzao:mozilla.org changed their profile picture. | 00:19:42 |
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| 29 May 2024 |
|  angl333 joined the room. | 21:44:37 |
| angl333 | Hello, I don't know if I can ask questions here. But I have one
When I use water fox with container tabs I get a "privacy window" that seems to work like a private/incognito window would, However, this doesn't happen when I use Firefox the option doesn't exist. Is there a way to enable that in Firefox? I use both browsers, so I'd like to have it enabled in both | 21:47:35 |
 Danny Colin | I don't know Waterfox but Firefox as Menu -> New Private Window. | 22:11:06 |
| Danny Colin | or Ctrl+Shfit+P | 22:11:31 |
| angl333 | * Hello, I don't know if I can ask questions here. But I have one
When I use water fox with container tabs I get a "privacy container" that seems to work like a private/incognito window would, However, this doesn't happen when I use Firefox the option doesn't exist. Is there a way to enable that in Firefox? I use both browsers, so I'd like to have it enabled in both | 22:19:26 |
| angl333 | Sorry I made a spelling mistake, I meant to say in water fox I get a "privacy container" which works like an incognito window, but in Firefox I don't get that tab, and I'd like to enable it | 22:20:51 |
| Danny Colin | So there's a Container tab and a Privacy Container tab in WaterFox? | 22:36:38 |
| angl333 | Yes, they are separate functions but seem to be fundamentally the same | 22:39:12 |
| Danny Colin | Strange. I don't know what's exactly the differences but technically if the tab (container or not) is in a regular windows, it doesn't work like a private window because it temporarily write on disk while a real private window doesn't. | 22:42:45 |
| angl333 | * Sorry I made a spelling mistake, I meant to say in water fox I get a "privace container" which works like an incognito window, but in Firefox I don't get that tab, and I'd like to enable it | 22:45:46 |
| angl333 | * Hello, I don't know if I can ask questions here. But I have one
When I use water fox with container tabs I get a "private container" that seems to work like a private/incognito window would, However, this doesn't happen when I use Firefox the option doesn't exist. Is there a way to enable that in Firefox? I use both browsers, so I'd like to have it enabled in both | 22:45:54 |
| angl333 | * Sorry I made a spelling mistake, I meant to say in water fox I get a "private container" which works like an incognito window, but in Firefox I don't get that tab, and I'd like to enable it | 22:46:00 |
| angl333 | Well I don't know what the exact differences would be, but I know that when I use the "private container" none of the sessions I are maintained and the websites I browse aren't saved in my browser history and it changes the search engine to "startpage", I don't know about cookies though. Id like to have that in firefox | 23:21:53 |
| angl333 | * Well I don't know what the exact differences would be between a tab and a window, but I know that when I use the "private container" none of the sessions I are maintained and the websites I browse aren't saved in my browser history and it changes the search engine to "startpage", I don't know about cookies though. Id like to have that in firefox | 23:22:22 |
| Danny Colin | It isn't supported in Firefox. Also, I suspect Waterfox private containers are writing information on disk and purging it when you close the tabs similar to this Firefox addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/. That's very misleading on their part to use the word "private" since it's theorically possible for an attacker to retrieve the information on your disk. It wouldn't be the case if it was only in memory/ram. | 23:40:25 |
| Danny Colin | * It isn't supported in Firefox itself. Also, I suspect Waterfox private containers are writing information on disk and purging it when you close the tabs similar to this Firefox addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/. That's very misleading on their part to use the word "private" since it's theorically possible for an attacker to retrieve the information on your disk. It wouldn't be the case if it was only in memory/ram. | 23:40:47 |
| 30 May 2024 |
| angl333 | I see, so it's a thing water fox does itself rather than an option | 00:19:37 |
| angl333 | Its misleading but I think its useful | 00:19:51 |
| angl333 | maybe they should change its name | 00:20:03 |
| 31 May 2024 |
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| 3 Jun 2024 |
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| 9 Jun 2024 |
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| gem534 | it doesent seem to be working properly in mullvad browser | 01:13:41 |
| gem534 | i cannot pin the extension to the toolbar | 01:14:52 |
| gem534 | * i cannot pin the extension to the extensions bar, it also does not show up when i click the puzzle piece, but it does when i go into extension settings | 01:15:21 |
