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Edge container tabs
- TheProphetOfSoupJul 21, 2023Copper Contributorisnt this the robin tabs thing? edge://flags/#edge-robin
- HellDukeJul 21, 2023Copper Contributor
TheProphetOfSouptaking a look at that project seems like there is no overalp. The project is meant to isolate pages from the hardware. The containers in Firefox simply separate your sessions and cookies from other containers and non-container tabs and that's the extent of it. There is no separation between the session and your hardware and indeed it would be unwanted in the common use case context. Imagine every time you download the file it would be unavailable to your PC, or the clipboard would be isolated to only that tab, not quite what you would want but exactly what Robin offers.
In Edge and Chrome you can add a new profile. Let's say you have profile home and profile work. If you go to mail.google.com on home and login to one email, you can go to the same page on another profile and login to a different email. That is what container tabs achieve. The downside of profiles like Chrome and Edge is that your bookmarks between the profiles cannot by syncronized and you need to also manually add all the same extensions you wish to be using. This is fine in the example given since you want work and home stuff to be very separate, but what if you have multiple work profiles, or multiple credentials for personal use? Opening entirely new sessions is not as comfortable.