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by chao- 11 days ago
Firefox's Multi-Account Containers changed the game for me back in 2018 or 2019, and is what got me to switch back to Firefox for 95% of my personal browser use. The "Always open {{domain}} in this container" and the ability to open a specific container with a keyboard shortcut seem like small things, but I can't imagine life without them anymore.

I never understood why it was set off to the side in an (official, first-party) extension, because I was always afraid they would one day stop supporting it. Now when I explain to people why I prefer Firefox, I don't have to explain "There's this extension, don't worry it's official, that allows me to..." I can just say "It has containers built-in. They're great. Try them."

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Yep, same here

MAC + Temporary Containers extension is how web browsing should be handled by default imo

No website deserves permanence of any data in my browser unless I so choose

I haven't seen similar functionality in any of the new generation of browsers, nor any of the Firefox spinoffs as-yet

>I haven't seen similar functionality in any [other] browsers

Brave has been advertising their new containers but I haven't tried them yet. https://brave.com/blog/containers/

Given Google's hostility toward non-chromium browsers, it's on my check-it-out list

Brave containers are great.

They also have vertical tabs built in which is my preferred tab layout and is missing from Chrome

Chrome just got vertical tabs, apparently.
Fyi Kagi's Orion browser also supports containers

https://help.kagi.com/orion/features/containers.html

It's not open source.