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		sp332 on March 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how ... Edit: ignore the below, I didn't realize the new container had the opposite behavior from other Firefox containers, described here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... This has a real limitation, which is that if you click an external link on your Facebook newsfeed, the new website will also be in the FB container. On the one hand, that keeps your FB-related browsing from "contaminating" your other web cookies. On the other hand, all the websites in that container get to link you to your FB account just like normal.

the_watcher on March 27, 2018 [–]

Doesn't the post explicitly contradict this?

> If you click on a non-Facebook link or navigate to a non-Facebook website in the URL bar, these pages will load outside of the container.

Or am I misunderstanding?

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