Brave Adds Containers to Separate Your Browsing

[fria]

Brave has released a new containers feature to allow you to isolate your browsing between different identities.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/07/03/brave-adds-containers-to-separate-your-browsing/

[Expert4870]

dupe Brave Containers are now live!

[user1]

@fria

The feature is comparable to the Multi-Account Containers feature in Firefox, although that requires an additional extension while Brave Containers are built-in.

Actually you don’t need the extension for using containers in Firefox, they are built-in.
However the extension is required if you need advanced functionalities like always open a website in a specific container.

[fria]

That’s cool, I found the hidden settings page for containers but I couldn’t figure out how to get them to work without the extension.

[PurpleDime]

@user1

Actually you don’t need the extension for using containers in Firefox, they are built-in.
However the extension is required if you need advanced functionalities like always open a website in a specific container.

Are you 100% sure about that?

I never noticed it.

@fria

It’s bizarre that Firefox requires an extension to use this feature, even though it came out years ago.

I can’t be sure this is the primary reason, but my guess is that using containers can create bugs for websites with subdomains or websites that require you to log in through another domain. For example, if you create a container for YouTube.com and you intend to use it with an account, it will also have to allow Google.com, because that’s how you log in to your YouTube account. The average person likely doesn’t understand the issue or how to get around it.

I currently don’t have Brave Containers, but I am going to guess that it is opt-in and not enabled by default, as the same issues I mentioned above can occur.

I hope Brave improves on the shortcomings Firefox has yet to address with their containers, such as more colors and icons for containers and the ability to add domains and subdomains to a container manually without having to visit that website first, i.e., without needing the internet. This is a problem because some domains immediately redirect to another domain when you visit them, which makes them hard to add to a container.

[user1]

@PurpleDime

Are you 100% sure about that?

Yes, I use containers since they were available with no extension.

[user1]

@fria

I couldn’t figure out how to get them to work without the extension.

You can just right click a link and choose open in a container or click and hold the + new tab.
Also right click any open tab and choose to reopen it in a container.

[any1]

@fria

I found the hidden settings page for containers

Containers are enabled by default starting with release 153

@user1

However the extension is required if you need advanced functionalities like always open a website in a specific container.

Adding the functionality from the Multi-Account Containers extension is also planned

[fria]

@any1

Containers are enabled by default starting with release 153

Excellent, great to see finally.

[ZenByte]

Really hoping containers come to mobile. It would make using progressive web apps so much easier and more isolated from other browser activities.