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I have a use case where I'm using 6 different amazon accounts which I'd have loved to use with containers controlled by bookmarks (I use Firefox keyword bookmarks a lot for productivity).

The best out of the box way you could do it with Firefox is to setup different profiles and switch between them, however, while there is a many-to-many relationship between website and containers, there is none between bookmarks and containers, thus you'd have to manually switch to the right container.

My workaround for this was to setup a thin server that redirects amazon<\d+>.localhost to amazon.com. Then, on Firefox, I bind each amazon(1-6).localhost to its own container and configure it to always open this site in its container. Now every time I type "amazon2" it will open up amazon.com in its right container.

Would have wished to have bookmarks granularity as part of Firefox, but for my use case, this is the best I could come up with in few minutes of work.



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