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Containers Helper by Containers Helper

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  • by Firefox user 13492451, 2 years ago
    I giving this a 1 star so you see this. I will make it a 5 star after your response.

    Would you have a way to open a specific url that is bookmarked into a certain container? I have 2 google docs accounts from 2 different emails and want both docs to open in 2 different containers.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello, I apologize for the delayed response to this question.

    At this time, the best way to accomplish this is to create two containers - one for each google docs account - and then use the "Set Default URL" feature, which will allow you to click the container and it will immediately open the URL that you wanted to bookmark.

    This method will require you to open the Containers Helper popup and then click on the container in the popup's container list. You can do this via the default keyboard shortcut alt+shift+D (cmd+shift+D on Mac) and start typing to filter on your container's name, then press the Enter key to open the top search result. This will be just as fast as clicking on a bookmark, once you get used to it.

    I hope this helps. Have a great day. If you have further questions, visit https://codeberg.org/firefox-containers-helper/firefox-containers-helper and create an issue, I will respond there.
  • by FoxyLovy, 4 years ago
    Installed the add-on. Clicked on the icon. Set default-URL for my container "Amazon" as "www.amazon.com". Selected Open-As-Tab. Clicked on the Amazon container. A new tab opens with the message "File not found

    Firefox can’t find the file at moz-extension://e1e01cb3-.....-87e7-a028308c825d/www.amazon.com.

    Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors.
    Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted."

    Removed addon.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Ok, your review is fair. This one is my fault. In all my time developing this extension, I never thought to type in a URL without "http://" or "https://" at the beginning, so I never ran into this problem. That's the reason this happened to you, and I feel bad that this was your experience with my addon.

    I wanted to be sure the issue was resolved in a user-friendly way before responding to your review. I have published an updated version of this web extension (v0.0.19) just a moment ago. This new version will now ask if you actually want to save or open a container URL that doesn't start with http:// or https://. If URLs don't start with a recognized protocol, then Firefox will attempt to open it as a file or local resource, which is what you saw : (

    If you're still interested in trying this addon, please feel free to reinstall it and try it again, you just need to add https:// to the front of your URL and it will work as expected : )


    I hope you'll give the extension another try. It really will make a difference!