Reviews for Switch Container
Switch Container by MarsCat
42 reviews
Developer response
posted 7 years agoIf you mean add Switch Container in the right-click context menu for tabs, that's outside the scope of this add-on.- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13546912, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by stoically, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13395258, 7 years agoGreat extension, but with a nice grey-based theme installed, the button icon disappears. How about giving us a choice of colours?
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThe API only allows me to pick one icon for the add-on, so I went with something that worked well on the default theme (which most people use) AND dark themes (which I use). I'm waiting for Mozilla to allow add-ons to have icons follow the user theme's color scheme, but I've yet to see this be allowed officially. Otherwise, while API does allow me to give people the option to pick a color for the icon, I find this is not an elegant solution to this problem. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13407887, 7 years agogood! this is what i needed all that time.
but if design popup bar in extensions will be more native it will be perfect! - Rated 5 out of 5by Matt, 7 years agoI haven't used containers much, but I would like to, and FF Quantum as-is just doesn't suffice. As a web designer, Reddit moderator, and as a serious power user, sometimes I need to access pages without being logged into my main accounts, or preview CSS/layout changes, and even work on multiple accounts at a time. This plugin makes it far easier to utilize Containers as they should be.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12889199, 7 years agoEDIT: It now works perfectly after installing Deja Vu's FOSS fonts!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoInstall a Unicode compatible font, such as these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces#Unicode_fonts
I recommend the DejaVu family of fonts. - Rated 5 out of 5by Mike, 7 years agoI don't know how this isn't part of the default container add-on. It's absolutely necessary so you can assign sites to the proper containers as you encounter them.
- Rated 5 out of 5by grahamperrin, 7 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxubHeiIfw features use of Switch Container to send a page to a container, then de-contain the page.
Also in the screen recording: experimental Conex 0.0.66 with a preference to disallow movement.
The disallowance in Conex does not disallow use of Switch Container. The two extensions complement each other very nicely … - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12531918, 7 years agoThere is one problem for me - it unpins pinned tabs.
I really have no idea why they didn't add this function. I mean, it's so obvious for any real user of multifox-like extention!Developer response
posted 7 years agoFixed in next version 0.7: Pinned tabs remain pinned after changing container. However, due to API limitations, tabs have to be positioned back into their original order.
Why? This has to do with how the add-on actually changes a tab's container, which is, by duplicating the current tab into a different container tab and then removing the original—which is the only way to do this using the API, and pretty much an unintended usage; a hack, if you will.
Since the resulting container tab is pretty much just a new pinned tab, it will always be added to the right of the rest of the pinned tabs, and there's no way to control its position thru the API. Therefore, only the user can reorder pinned tabs.
Additionally: An add-on like Multifox had considerably more access to the browser than a WebExt add-on could ever have, and therefore not all features can be exactly 1:1. In any case, it has never been my intention to replace Multifox, but to allow exactly this one extended functionality to the official Container Tabs add-on/feature by Mozilla. - Rated 5 out of 5by OutlawSoaps, 7 years agoThis is just fantastic! Containers are a game-changer for me, but I was frustrated because I always forget to open new tabs in their right containers. Thank you for fixing that!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Tulirebane, 7 years agoDoes what it says. I wish it was a pageaction though - since the container indicator is in the address bar anyway, it would make sense to have a switcher right next to it.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for your review! Regarding it being a pageaction: It used to be in the address bar at one point, however there's a reason why it's not a pageaction now. I quote:
"Page actions are for actions that are only relevant to particular pages. If your icon should always be available, use a browser action instead."
So I opted to follow the proper guideline as established by the Firefox developers. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13256743, 7 years agoThis is perfect except that I can't switch from a container to not a container, which would be nice.
Edit: updated to five-star review now that decontain is here!Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for your review and your suggestion! Added the "decontain" feature in the next version (0.6) of the add-on, currently being reviewed for release. It should be out soon! - Rated 5 out of 5by Hal, 7 years agoSo often a link will open in the generic container, when I want it in a specific one. I had been doing the "copy url; close tab; open new container tab; paster url" dance, but NO MORE!