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Why not use Firefox multi account containers[1] for this use case? Having one banking container or even one per bank would have the same effect, without the annoyances of private mode?

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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I tried it out, but it was much more structured than I'd like. I don't really want to have pre-defined a bunch of containers for each site that I want compartmentalized. I really like the ephemeral nature of private browsing where a single click gives me a fresh new container that I can use for whatever I want. Plus, when giving recommendations to family members, private browsing is more user-facing feature, and easier for them to use.

As an alternative, there is the “containers on the go” add-on, which will let you easily (optionally) open new tabs in ephemeral containers.

When the plugins stop working in FF, multi account containers stop working as well.

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