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by jonathansampson 1974 days ago
You can run multiple profiles in parallel in Brave, and we don't allow cookies to bleed over into other domains anyway. That's the default behavior. It would be great to have tabs from different profiles in a single window, but that isn't presently supported. Our work is not yet complete!
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DenseComet 1974 days ago
Its not just about having tabs from different profiles in a single window. Firefox containers allows things like automatically opening a specific site in a certain container. It allows for extensions such as the Facebook Container and Temporary Containers. There's a huge amount of functionality it provides.
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mahalel 1974 days ago
I agree. As someone who works with numerous customer environments this extension is critical for my productivity. Having a different profile (ie Chrome style) is nowhere close.

If the container re-ordering patch[0] would be implemented it would be perfect, but it seems to be stuck in limbo.

If Brave implemented this and did it right (with sorting & reordering) I would consider switching.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/160...

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gnud 1974 days ago
> Firefox containers allows things like automatically opening a specific site in a certain container.

I use this a bit. But the configuration GUI (provided by an extension) is soooo bad. So I only use it for about 10% of the sites I _ought_ to use it for.

I wish Firefox would work on these features, instead of for example messing around with the address bar on every other release.

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leppr 1974 days ago
Agreed. I use containers everyday including multiple add-ons that layer over it, but the whole UX still feels incomplete/hackish. Given the number of people who seem to swear by them, polishing it should be a priority before another browser releases a version that's just better.
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generalizations 1974 days ago
In my use case, I keep multiple containerized tabs pinned with each of my (numerous, for work etc) email accounts. If Brave is able to support that (and tree style tabs), I'd switch in a heartbeat.

Would love to try out the new stuff, but I depend on containers and tree tabs.

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