[clarkdave]

The killer feature of containers for me is keeping Google isolated. I've degoogled my personal life but still have to use it for work (i.e. G-Suite SSO). I can force all those sites to open in my work container which leaves my other containers Google-free.

Before Firefox I used Brave with multiple profiles and it was very painful to use in practice; two sets of extensions, two unlocks of 1Password X, no ability to force certain websites to open in Profile X or Y, etc.

But yes, Firefox feels like it's getting progressively slower and I'm finding more and more things that don't support it. In particular, many of the recent spatial audio tools just flat out refuse to run in Firefox, and tools like Apple Business Manager don't run even though they typically work fine if you spoof the User Agent.

If a Chromium-based browser like Vivaldi or Brave added containers it'd be a very compelling alternative.

[padenot]

Firefox audio developer here, would you mind giving me a link to a couple of those "spatial audio tools" that don't work in Firefox?

[clarkdave]

Sorry, I just realised my comment was ambiguous. The apps claim not to support Firefox, and then I'd just close the app without trying with a spoofed UA - so it's not necessarily a technical issue.

The only one I have bookmarked is https://getmibo.com, which claims to "currently only work in Google Chrome"

[jeroenhd]

Honestly, when I see an application that works with Chrome exclusively, I just conclude that the application is either bad or not finished yet and ignore it.

I understand Safari because it's just a massive pain to develop for because you need custom hardware (and because it lags behind in implementing open standards), but Firefox is perfectly fine for any decent JS application, even if its JS engine is a bit slower. User agent filtering is a thing of the past, web developers need to fix their shitty apps instead of forcing Chrome down everyone's throats.