I went ahead and downloaded the developer version of Brave, Brave Nightly. I actually found the feature inside brave://flags/ but it’s not enabled by default.
When I tried to enable it and give it a spin, it doesn’t seem to be working yet. I tried to create a container, but it looks like it’s just a placeholder for now.
Regardless, I’m genuinely super excited for this feature and have been waiting for it impatiently!
I think it’s going to be quite unique, and I’m really keen to see how they implement it in a Chromium-based browser.
It depends how they will implement it, so I can’t tell because it’s not out yet
But the containers concept in general is pretty good for privacy and security, because it separates your sessions-cookies for each container, i use it daily in Firefox and i love it, it is also comes handy for managing multiple accounts.
I’d like to see this as well. I separate pretty much everything with containers in Firefox. I’ll admit though that I don’t know which is better, or understand the difference really when it comes to containers, profiles, or just using separate browsers for everything really.
Anyone else find that different profiles in full are a better way to compartmentalize instead of containers? Perhaps its just me but different profiles for different browsing or work use cases also enable you to have different settings, extensions, etc. that at large provide greater flexibility.
But I suppose containers was just a matter of time?
There’s no single “best” option among containers, profiles, or separate browsers; it really depends on your specific needs and how you use them.
Think of it this way: using a new profile in your browser is technically like using a completely different browser instance.
Containers primarily help you separate cookies, which boosts privacy and makes organizing accounts easy without needing multiple browsers. Profiles, on the other hand, offer a much broader level of privacy, keeping everything distinct: your history, settings, extensions, and more are all separate.
For me, containers are incredibly useful and perfectly suit my needs for organization and privacy.
I’ve never liked the idea of using multiple profiles just to differentiate between my personal accounts; it feels cumbersome and disorganized. That’s why I found Firefox’s container feature to be incredibly smooth and a huge simplification.
Technically, I don’t really care about containers or profiles themselves. All I ever wanted in a browser was the ability to easily separate my online accounts and personal life within a single browser window.
On a side note, there was a Chromium-based browser, Arc, that did this in a very unique way. It added a feature to link multiple profiles to “workspaces.” I really hope to see a feature like that implemented in a great browser like Brave. Arc wasn’t ideal for me privacy-wise, as it required a login to even use the browser, which felt illogical to me.
Containers can be used as a phishing protection. If you set legitimate important sites (gmail, bank, insurance…) to open only in specific containers, fake links would be opened in regular tabs, so you can easily notice something’s wrong
I used containers in Firefox a lot (and still use them, when I open it) although have moved long time ago to Brave because I think it does a better job regarding fingerprinting. On Brave I do use separate profiles instead. I will definitely love to try containers.
Unfortunately Brave on iOS doesn’t offer profiles and I don’t expect them to offer containers either which is a bummer. That’s one of the reasons I do use different browsers on iOS (Brave and Safari mainly, also DDG for some needs).
