Reviews for Facebook Container
Facebook Container by Firefox
Review by Norm
Rated 1 out of 5
by Norm, 4 years agoI had to disable this extension due to its interference with Instagram images embedded into other website's content.
Many content creators are using images from Instagram to illustrate their articles as if Instagram were a stock-photo site. Or they are using Instagram as a free repository for their own collection of images.
This extension blocks the Instagram image and replaces it with a big, fat placeholder the same size of the image. A white box with one line of text "Click here to see the image on Instagram".
Personally, I want to see the webpage as the developer envisioned it and not open a separate tab to see every Instagram image on the page.
This behavior has been reported as an issue as far back as 2019, with the developer promising to fix it, but for the moment saying the behavior is "as-expected".
As Instagram is owned by Facebook, the integration between the two sites has become much tighter. Partly I must assume as a reaction to the threat of government anti-trust action to separate Facebook from Instagram.
In any case, I disabled the Facebook Container extension and will not use it until the issues around embedded Instagram images is resolved.
Many content creators are using images from Instagram to illustrate their articles as if Instagram were a stock-photo site. Or they are using Instagram as a free repository for their own collection of images.
This extension blocks the Instagram image and replaces it with a big, fat placeholder the same size of the image. A white box with one line of text "Click here to see the image on Instagram".
Personally, I want to see the webpage as the developer envisioned it and not open a separate tab to see every Instagram image on the page.
This behavior has been reported as an issue as far back as 2019, with the developer promising to fix it, but for the moment saying the behavior is "as-expected".
As Instagram is owned by Facebook, the integration between the two sites has become much tighter. Partly I must assume as a reaction to the threat of government anti-trust action to separate Facebook from Instagram.
In any case, I disabled the Facebook Container extension and will not use it until the issues around embedded Instagram images is resolved.
4,107 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kicajec19, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19486413, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tobi, 22 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by grace46202, a month agoIf the container is accidentally deleted it can glitch out and does not re-create it by itself, requiring you to manually re-create a container to fix it. Otherwise this works great!
- Rated 5 out of 5by ninefoldrin, a month agoReally love this add-on. I appreciate anything keeping Facebook disconnected from myself.
As I don't know how else to potentially report a bug or anything like that, I'm also using this review to inform that there appears to be an issue with Etsy. When attempting to log into Etsy (with email login) it says there is an error until I try with Etsy allowed in Facebook Container. I'm not sure if this is something fixable or if Facebook has found a way to break Facebook Container. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19239252, 2 months agoLove the idea. Only gave 4 of 5 stars because of instead of just opening a new tab, it closes my original tab. SUPER ANNOYING to loose my search because I clicked on a FB or IG link. Fix this to just open a new tab automatically and i'll rate to 5 stars.
- Rated 5 out of 5by s1, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Filter Your Water!, 2 months agoI don't even really know if it works but I find it really cool that firefox themselves made this extension because fuck Facebook and all other large and megacap companies led by psychopaths.
- Rated 1 out of 5by trav1295, 2 months agoIt's been at least 2 months, and no update from Mozilla on the new Threads url. Mozilla, please add "threads.com" to the site list, otherwise the page will never load, and some people may not know this extension is causing it.
How to add manually (until Mozilla updates/if they ever update it):
1. Go to threads.com
2. Click "Facebook container" under the Add-on button (or toolbar if you placed it there)
3. Click "Allow site in Facebook container"
4. Threads will load - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19114790, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19140036, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18451805, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by gabonamong, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by godspeed, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Owlando, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18498576, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by shino1, 3 months agoThis extension WILL completely break Threads website. I'm assuming it blocks access to some necessary Instagram stuff.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Carol A, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by king juma, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Thomas walker, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by rrgaap, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tahkarof, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 19105114, 3 months agoNever downloaded the Extension. But I've always been perplexed why so many people issue 1 or two stars and NO review. Just sayin