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by catlifeonmars 1899 days ago
Privacy considerations aside, containers are great for using multiple AWS accounts simultaneously. Since we use an AWS account as a deployment container, it’s typical to have 10s of different accounts you have to jump between and it’s just not possible to effectively do ops with another browser.
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Mutli-account containers is really a game-changing feature for me. I switched from Chrome back to Firefox about 3 years ago (even before containers were available) and at this point there's no going back. I keep chrome around for some sites that require it, but that's it.

Now how do I get Chrome to stop auto-installing itself in my login items on macOS everytime there's some kind of update.

Edit:

Also, if you're on Android, set Firefox Focus as your default browser! It's amazing to not have to think about the tracking consequences everytime you click a link somewhere on your phone. It's basically a new "container" for every link click. If you need the cookies, then there's a handy "Open With" menu to let you re-open the page with regular Firefox, or Chrome.

And uBO works on the regular Firefox Android browser.. Again, game-changer for me.

This is honestly a killer feature! I use Temporary Containers and load the AWS console in a fresh container automatically, making it very easy to switch between accounts and have multiple open at once. (Caveat emptor: be sure which account you're using at any given time!)
It really is. I think this is one of the features they (Mozilla) spend some more resources into. It's really unique and could drive non-tech savvy users to it.
I really wish AWS would figure out multiple accounts on one session.

Even with multiple containers, it still means logging into AWS SSO multiple times and selecting the right account.

By any chance you are using nightly. I am not able to login as IAM user in firefox nightly. For last couple of months always get 403 from AWS.
You can use the aws switch roles addon that lets you do that in one container.