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by halbersa
2438 days ago
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> Could you ever imagine Mozilla undermining the big players like that today? Enhanced tracking protection[1] was turned on by default for all users recently. This is a feature that hits at Google and Facebook's bottom line.. so I guess yeah, I can imagine Mozilla undermining the big players today. Not to mention other privacy initiatives like Containers/Facebook Container. [1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote... |
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Except the Multi-Account Containers extension has a trash UX[0], and there is no Google Container extension from Mozilla. Why does Mozilla give us a first party Facebook Container extension but force people to rely on a community provided Google Container extension?
Am I supposed to give Mozilla the benefit of the doubt and assume that the lack of Google Container extension has nothing to do with Mozilla getting more funding from Google than they do Facebook? And that Mozilla's failure to throw a few engineers at fixing up Multi-Account Containers has nothing to do with such extensions earning them no good will from Google/etc?
[0] I realize calling something trash might be considered inflammatory, so let me defend that remark. The number of steps needed to say "always open hacker news in a container called 'hacker news'" is absurd:
1) Click the Multi-Account Containers button.
2) Click the "Create new container" button.
3) Enter a name, select from a (senselessly limited and visually similar) number of colors and icons, and press Ok.
4) Click the Multi-Account Containers button a second time, then click your new container to switch to it.
5) In the new container tab, navigate to news.ycombinator.com
6) Click the Multi-Account Containers button a third time.
7) Check the "Always open in [container]" box
8) Open a new regular tab.
9) Navigate to news.ycombinator.com a second time.
10) Check "Remember my decision for this site"
11) Click "Open in [container] Container"
The redundancy in steps 7 through 11 is particularly frustrating.