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Any chance at all for the "Containers" discussion making it's way into the mix?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/edge-container-tabs/m-p/463977#M1496
- HotCakeXMar 15, 2020MVP
TrafGib wrote:Any chance at all for the "Containers" discussion making it's way into the mix?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/edge-container-tabs/m-p/463977#M1496
Hi, please have a look at this topic and comment down what you think in there
Smart Idea: use Automatic Profile Switching in Edge to create a Container like experience
- TrafGibMar 16, 2020Iron Contributor
You have captured it well. The functionality developing around "profile switching" suggests that the components necessary to implement the far more convenient "containers" should be possible. With many users having separate home, school, work, etc. accounts I can see how the concept of "profile switching" came to be seen as a value add, and it is. However, as you elude to, the "containers" add on in Firefox provides a far more elegant and efficient approach to providing that functionality. Microsoft went about solving what was viewed as workflow separation issue for a multi-email account user. It appears that they completely missed the value of providing that same workflow separation to single-email account users wanting to divide their workflow sandboxes across multiple-tabs in the same incidence of the browser. There is no doubt that "profile switching", as it is currently being implemented, will be a value add for many user. However, as a proxy for the "containers" functionality in Firefox, you have correctly captured the need for further development. I would imagine that multiple sandboxes, across tabs, in a single browser instance would constitute project scope-creep.
- HotCakeXMar 16, 2020MVPThank you, you're right ๐