What's the use-case for Firefox containers?
What's the use-case for Firefox containers?
Or what do you use them for? Isn't it now quite easy for websites to track outside of just cookies?
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I have Microsoft Outlook accounts with two different universities.
Outlook does not work with Thunderbird or any other app besides the official Outlook one, which doesn't exist for Linux. Even if it did I wouldn't want to install it. So I am forced to use web mail.
Even though the domain names are different, Outlook freaks the fuck out at the notion that one could be signed in with two different Microsoft accounts in the same web browser. It's hard to access my inbox for one university without completely signing out of my inbox for the other.
Now I just allocate one university to container A, and the other to container B. It's just one of the many hoops I have to jump through to make e-mail barely functional in 2025.
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Outlook does not work with Thunderbird or any other app besides the official Outlook one, which doesn’t exist for Linux. Even if it did I wouldn’t want to install it. So I am forced to use web mail.
That is not generally true across the board, but it may be true for your university because they have disallowed it.
Outlook, or rather Exchange Server and Office 365, does work with standard email clients like Thunderbird via the IMAP protocol, but it can be disallowed by the admins.
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Yeah, it used to work with the account from the first university, and has probably been disallowed somewhere in the settings as a "safety feature".
I'm just thankful IT seems to be as fed up with Microsoft as I am, so hopefully some day they'll make the change to something else.
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