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Edge container tabs
Hello everyone. One of the things I like in the Firefox is the possibility of using containers. Mozilla have two containers add-on's, Facebook Container (exclusively to the Facebook) and Multi-Acco...
Firefox container isn't as good as people think. It just separates cookies, that's it, nothing else.
Websites have a plethora of techniques and tactics that can track and uniquely identify you. They can track you based on your time zone, installed fonts, CPU cores, RAM capacity, OS version, screen size, the way you type, the device orientation, available sensors in your hardware etc.
Firefox container does not protect you from any of those things.
Your best bet is to use Windows Sandbox, change your timezone in it, and then browse the Internet, that way you still more secure and also more anonymous.
Websites have a plethora of techniques and tactics that can track and uniquely identify you. They can track you based on your time zone, installed fonts, CPU cores, RAM capacity, OS version, screen size, the way you type, the device orientation, available sensors in your hardware etc.
Firefox container does not protect you from any of those things.
Your best bet is to use Windows Sandbox, change your timezone in it, and then browse the Internet, that way you still more secure and also more anonymous.
As others have stated, it's not being used as a "privacy" feature (because it's not). It's used for productivity. For example, I tend to be signed into multiple AWS Accounts throughout the day because of my day job. Being able to switch among AWS Accounts by simply switching tabs in my browser is a huge time saver.If it were only 1 or 2 accounts, then I could just have a couple of browsers open (e.g., Firefox and Chrome/Edge) but I tend to have more open than that.
I also use this for multiple Google accounts, which can be a huge time saver.
While Edge does come preinstalled on my Windows laptops, I only use it to install Firefox. I do open Edge from time to time to see what's new, but I don't ever see it becoming my default browser without this capability.
I also use this for multiple Google accounts, which can be a huge time saver.
While Edge does come preinstalled on my Windows laptops, I only use it to install Firefox. I do open Edge from time to time to see what's new, but I don't ever see it becoming my default browser without this capability.
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As others have stated, it's not being used as a "privacy" feature (because it's not). It's used for productivity. For example, I tend to be signed into multiple AWS Accounts throughout the day because of my day job. Being able to switch among AWS Accounts by simply switching tabs in my browser is a huge time saver.If it were only 1 or 2 accounts, then I could just have a couple of browsers open (e.g., Firefox and Chrome/Edge) but I tend to have more open than that.
I also use this for multiple Google accounts, which can be a huge time saver.
While Edge does come preinstalled on my Windows laptops, I only use it to install Firefox. I do open Edge from time to time to see what's new, but I don't ever see it becoming my default browser without this capability.For profile switching, Edge has this edge://settings/profiles/multiProfileSettings
you can configure it to auto switch for you. I use it to manage multiple Azure and M365 identities.
- Do you recently have an issue with viewing CloudWatch log in Firefox? Like you, I like container feature in Firefox but it is very painful when Firefox becomes nearly hanging when opening CloudWatch
