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Iron Contributor

Apr 17, 2019

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...

jsbramwell

Copper Contributor

Jan 16, 2024

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.

HotCakeX

MVP

Mar 04, 2024

jsbramwell

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jsbramwell wrote:
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.

wrote: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.

HellDuke
Copper Contributor
Mar 05, 2024
HotCakeX that doesn't look like something that would be relevant to people who are asking for container tabs since it's still attaching a site to a profile rather than allowing you to quickly open up the same site with different accounts