Temporary-containers: How to isolate YouTube and other Google services while logged in

Created on 30 May 2018  路  4Comments  路  Source: stoically/temporary-containers

I am trying to achieve the following and would appreciate any advice on how to do it correctly.

Aim: permanently isolate the following using Mozilla multi-account-containers:

  • Youtube (logged in)
  • Gmail (logged in)and Docs (logged in), and Calendar (logged in)
  • Google Search (not logged in) and other Google services (not logged in).
    using temporary-containers
  • I also want the convenient of automatic temporary-containers for every other site.
  • Also force open Google search results in a new tmp container

Problem:

  • I can't login to Youtube or GMail because when I try to login accounts.google.com takes me out of permanent container to a tmp container and loging fails.
  • I can't figure out how to always open Google search results in a new tmp container.
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I can't answer all of your questions as I do not use Google services for privacy reasons. However, in order to open Google search results in a new tmp container you can try the following:

  1. In the TC settings go to _Isolation -> Per domain_ and add
    /^https:\/\/www\.google\.com\/search/
    to the _Domain Pattern_ field.
  2. Select _Enabled_ in the _Always open in new Temporary Containers field_.

For your other problems you might want to try to add the respective domains to the _Always open in new Temporary Containers_ field and select _Disabled_.

You will find more info here.

This extension does not aim to implement permanent containers. There are other extensions that do that.

I can't login to Youtube or GMail because when I try to login accounts.google.com takes me out of permanent container to a tmp container and loging fails.

In your permanent containers extension, make sure you set accounts.google.com to always open in the same permanent container as other google apps.

An alternative could be Google Container.

  • I can't figure out how to always open Google search results in a new tmp container.

You can use the Per Domain Isolation with the RegExp mentioned by @curiosity-seeker to achieve that behavior.

  • I can't login to Youtube or GMail because when I try to login accounts.google.com takes me out of permanent container to a tmp container and loging fails.

Like mentioned by @GingerPlusPlus this is solved by adding the domain to Always Open In your Google-Container with Multi-Account Containers.

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