Export and Import containers & settings

[ghost]

Hi, will you develop a way to export and import containers and settings? At the moment I must setup a lot of containers every time I use conteiners on a new device. Thank you.

[IOAyman]

That would be great!

[alex3kov]

Please do this. Preferably export everything (containers and URLs assigned to them) to one file - json or whatever.

[pierlauro]

Waiting for an eventual official support, I created a script to export and import containers among different machines.

https://github.com/pierlauro/ffcontainers

[MathieuDR]

Waiting for an eventual official support, I created a script to export and import containers among different machines.

https://github.com/pierlauro/ffcontainers

Sadly doesn't work for me. But I used it to manually export it, Lets see if I can import it as well.
Thanks!

[pierlauro]

Waiting for an eventual official support, I created a script to export and import containers among different machines.
https://github.com/pierlauro/ffcontainers

Sadly doesn't work for me. But I used it to manually export it, Lets see if I can import it as well.
Thanks!

Please, open an issue on ffcontainers' issue tracker detailing the problem so I will be able to fix it.

[throwaway167]

Adding an import & export capability for Containers, Settings, & Container's URL lists would be a TREMENDOUS asset. — As someone who uses profiles across multiple PCs, and occasionally has to delete & recreate FF profiles. . . needing to manually recreate all your containers and their associated URLs can be extremely time-consuming and a complete pain.

Would be MUCH appreciated, thank you!

[avliet]

Import/Export would make life a LOT easier when upgrading Firefox on my Debian hosts. Right now every time I upgrade Firefox, I lose all my containers, sessions, everything. Not this project's fault, but REALLY annoying.

[drod3763]

Same right here especially now that sync isn't working for some people. - myself included. This would be a good workaround.

[moocan]

Hello,

I upvote for this too.
It would be very useful to have an export/import settings feature using a file in Multi-Account Containers like some add-ons allow you to do it already.

I use a lot of containers because I have a dedicated container for each site that requires authentication and temporary containers for all other sites, but I have to manually recreate all the Multi-Account Containers every time I reset my profile or my operating system. I can export and import many addon settings quickly, but not from this add-on.

I'm sorry, but everyone (or maybe just me :( ) does not synchronize their life over Internet too.

Kind Regards

[Jieiku]

I just temporarily turned off this addon to see if it was the cause of a problem I was having, now all of my custom containers are gone, really need a feature like this.

[gelatinbomb]

I completely agree with you. Especially if you have a lot of containers and you want to factory reset your pc.

[Dormann]

Just like @moocan : I have to reinstall my new Debian and do not wish to sync over internet.
I do everything on local and so would I like doing for this (super useful) add-on.
Please add local export / import.

[askAvoid]

2024 and still no basic functionality to export a simple json file of containers and rules.

Given this issue's age, it's clear what the developers' priorities are and thus this extension will not be included in my next Firefox installation.