Prompt about which container to use when opening link from external application
**The Problem:** In an external chat or email client, someone sends me a web link. It's the URL to a domain that I normally would use in a particular container. To do so, I have to copy the link, open a new Firefox tab with the container I want, paste the URL, and hit Enter. If I click the link without thinking, it opens in the default container; then switching to the container I want to use means copying the URL, closing the tab, opening a new tab, pasting, hitting Enter... Arguably, working around this is part of learning the new Containers functionality. But it's kind of a hassle. **Possible Solution:** When opening a link from an external application, Firefox could start a new tab with the URL bar pre-filled, but prompt the user about which container to use before actually loading the target web page at all. ┆Issue is synchronized with this [Jira Task](https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/MAC-579)
Posted by audreytoskin on Aug 3, 2017, 5:04 AM
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Prompt about which container to use when opening link from external application
**The Problem:** In an external chat or email client, someone sends me a web link. It's the URL to a domain that I normally would use in a particular container. To do so, I have to copy the link, open a new Firefox tab with the container I want, paste the URL, and hit Enter. If I click the link without thinking, it opens in the default container; then switching to the container I want to use means copying the URL, closing the tab, opening a new tab, pasting, hitting Enter... Arguably, working around this is part of learning the new Containers functionality. But it's kind of a hassle. **Possible Solution:** When opening a link from an external application, Firefox could start a new tab with the URL bar pre-filled, but prompt the user about which container to use before actually loading the target web page at all. ┆Issue is synchronized with this [Jira Task](https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/MAC-579)
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