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Its not just about having tabs from different profiles in a single window. Firefox containers allows things like automatically opening a specific site in a certain container. It allows for extensions such as the Facebook Container and Temporary Containers. There's a huge amount of functionality it provides.

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I agree. As someone who works with numerous customer environments this extension is critical for my productivity. Having a different profile (ie Chrome style) is nowhere close.

If the container re-ordering patch[0] would be implemented it would be perfect, but it seems to be stuck in limbo.

If Brave implemented this and did it right (with sorting & reordering) I would consider switching.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/160...

> Firefox containers allows things like automatically opening a specific site in a certain container.

I use this a bit. But the configuration GUI (provided by an extension) is soooo bad. So I only use it for about 10% of the sites I _ought_ to use it for.

I wish Firefox would work on these features, instead of for example messing around with the address bar on every other release.

Agreed. I use containers everyday including multiple add-ons that layer over it, but the whole UX still feels incomplete/hackish. Given the number of people who seem to swear by them, polishing it should be a priority before another browser releases a version that's just better.

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