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by jedberg 1862 days ago
Has anyone tried this along with Container Tabs? Do they play nicely? Does it offer any advantage over Container Tabs?
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Container Tabs are completely orthogonal. A site loaded in a tab which is contained in this way cannot access your global cookie jar, for example. If you visit a site with a Facebook Like button on it, then Facebook will not receive the same cookie from you that it would have received if you had loaded the site in a non–contained tab. This is true whether or not the site has been given it’s own process to live in. The converse is also still true; non–contained sites still have access to your global cookie jar even if they’re isolated in their own process.

Putting sites in their own process mitigates against Spectre–like attacks, but it doesn’t do anything for higher–level problems like third–party cookies.

Any idea?

I'd love to drop https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con..., which automatically assigns a temporary container to any new tab, which plays nicely with the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... but uses too much memory (at least from my experience).

I think they are complementary, since one is about browser site isolation, and one is about process isolation on the computer.

Using temporary containers, multi-account containers, site isolation, along with a number of other privacy/security addons such as Umatrix, LocalCDN, and many others, I have not noticed any slowdown.

This on an older broadwell i7 with 32GB of ram.

So far it seems to work fine for me too. Can you share you list of security/privacy addons? I've used Umatrix but never heard of LocalCDN. Was wondering what other gems you may have found.
Here is a complete list of security/privacy addons I am using, a small number of which I have disabled, as I regularly toggle them depending on what I am doing at the time

AdNauseam

Archive Page

ClearURLs

Cookie AutoDelete

Cookie Remover

Decentraleyes

DoH Roll-Out

Don't track me Google

DuckDuckGo

Facebook Container

Firefox Multi-Account Containers

Firefox Private Network

Firefox Relay

Firefox Screenshots

First Party Isolation

Google Container

Google search link fix

Greasemonkey

HistoryBlock

HTTPS Everywhere

I don't care about cookies

Laboratory

Link Cleaner

LocalCDN

PinPatrol

Privacy Badger

Privacy Pass

Redirect AMP to HTML

Skip Redirect

Tampermonkey

Temporary Containers

Trocker

Twitter Container

uBlock Origin

Ugly Email

uMatrix

Wappalyzer

Zoom Redirector

Enable Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection setting, this turns on Dynamic First Party Isolation which is the native version of what Temporary Containers is aiming to do.
I believe this is privacy.firstparty.isolate in about:config, if you want to do this manually
That's not for the Dynamic version as far as I'm aware.
Is there a way to enable the dynamic version via about:config to your knowledge?
I use the same add-ons. I just enabled site isolation. I'll let you know how it goes.
Based on the processes I'm now running, it seems that tabs for the same domain but in different containers do (as one might expect) count as separate origins for the purpose of creating one process per origin.

So they do different things, and interaction between the features appears to work without issues.