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Edge container tabs
HotCakeX wrote:
Firefox container isn't as good as people think. It just separates cookies, that's it, nothing else.
Most don't expect it to do anything about privacy or tracking as people think. They just want the productivity benefit of it, nothing else.
Jokes aside, I and many others are fully aware that it's all containers do, that's all we want them to do, so that you can have 2 sessions on the same website without having to resort to private windows or secondary profiles, which accomplish the same goal but with a lot more inconvenience.
Think of this request as nothing more than not having to create separate profiles for the browser and just let us have separated cookie sessions so that YouTube Music can just run in a tab without us having to go switching profiles when we decide to go watch YouTube videos.
HellDuke wrote:
HotCakeX wrote:
Firefox container isn't as good as people think. It just separates cookies, that's it, nothing else.Most don't expect it to do anything about privacy or tracking as people think. They just want the productivity benefit of it, nothing else.
Jokes aside, I and many others are fully aware that it's all containers do, that's all we want them to do, so that you can have 2 sessions on the same website without having to resort to private windows or secondary profiles, which accomplish the same goal but with a lot more inconvenience.
Think of this request as nothing more than not having to create separate profiles for the browser and just let us have separated cookie sessions so that YouTube Music can just run in a tab without us having to go switching profiles when we decide to go watch YouTube videos.
Well since the goal is not hiding your alternative account, most websites offer account switching capability, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, Discord, Facebook etc. all have it, so might as well use that feature.
There are also lots of PWAs in Microsoft Store, they have separate cookie storage than Edge browser so they can be used too.
Windows also natively supports Android apps so YouTube, Spotify, Discord, Telegram etc. can have their own native apps running next to other programs.
And of course there are Edge profiles. The point is that there are lots of alternatives already available and they are much better than waiting for container capability to come to Edge, if at all, specially since it barely offers any security or privacy benefits.
Usually the teams working on a feature must evaluate its benefits to see if it's worth the time and money to develop it, security is a great justification, privacy is next in line, containers, at least the way Firefox implements them, don't satisfy either of them, just saying.
HotCakeX wrote:
HellDuke wrote:
HotCakeX wrote:
Firefox container isn't as good as people think. It just separates cookies, that's it, nothing else.Most don't expect it to do anything about privacy or tracking as people think. They just want the productivity benefit of it, nothing else.
Jokes aside, I and many others are fully aware that it's all containers do, that's all we want them to do, so that you can have 2 sessions on the same website without having to resort to private windows or secondary profiles, which accomplish the same goal but with a lot more inconvenience.
Think of this request as nothing more than not having to create separate profiles for the browser and just let us have separated cookie sessions so that YouTube Music can just run in a tab without us having to go switching profiles when we decide to go watch YouTube videos.
Well since the goal is not hiding your alternative account, most websites offer account switching capability, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, Discord, Facebook etc. all have it, so might as well use that feature.
There are also lots of PWAs in Microsoft Store, they have separate cookie storage than Edge browser so they can be used too.
Windows also natively supports Android apps so YouTube, Spotify, Discord, Telegram etc. can have their own native apps running next to other programs.
And of course there are Edge profiles. The point is that there are lots of alternatives already available and they are much better than waiting for container capability to come to Edge, if at all, specially since it barely offers any security or privacy benefits.
Usually the teams working on a feature must evaluate its benefits to see if it's worth the time and money to develop it, security is a great justification, privacy is next in line, containers, at least the way Firefox implements them, don't satisfy either of them, just saying.
Therein lies the problem: the websites do not have this capability, not in the sense that is sought after with containers. Think of it this way, you have 2 tabs open of the same page. You are logged to account1 on the first tab. Now you go to second tab and switch profiles to account2. What do you think happens to tab 1? Can I still navigate to other pages using account1, or will clicking the link suddenly display information from account2? Unless it's a rare edge case scenario, it's going to be the latter.
Skipping over to android apps, that does not cover 100% of the possible websites even if that was a feature that you could use, alas Android apps is not a released feature for Windows yet so it's a moot point.
And as I said, profiles are a workaround. It's basically saying why implement a solution when you can use a more cumbersome option that is meant for something entirely different as a workaround?