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The article misses the probably one of the biggest advantage Firefox offers privacy-wise versus other browsers: Firefox Multi-Account Containers. Containers allow you to isolate different websites into separate browsing environments.

Recently Mozilla integrated their VPN service directly into the browser too and it is Container aware.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/protect-your-container-...

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"Starting with Safari 17, you can use profiles to keep your browsing separate for topics like work, personal, or school. Each profile has separate history, cookies, website data, extensions, Tab Groups, and favorites."

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/105100

For context, Safari 17 was released September 18, 2023.

I did not know that. Thanks.

Edit: see jshier’s response.

Additionally, installed PWAs on macOS and iOS live in their own little detached universes which can be helpful.

You can create profiles, but as I understand it, Firefox containers allow you to scope profile-like containment to specific websites, which is not possible with Safari containers. In fact, I abandoned my look at Safari profiles because you can't bind particular sites to particular profiles, nor can you open sites using a specific profile within a particular tab, it must always be a window.

That is exactly how Firefox containers work. That’s much more powerful than what the person you are responding to implied.

You can bind sites to containers in safari.

On iOS? How? I couldn’t find any documentation on it?

Took another look at this and it looks like you can set a profile to use for a site in the website settings, Open Links With Profile settings. You have to visit first, but it does seem to work. Unfortunately still limited to a whole new window, which makes the whole thing rather awkward, but more useful that I thought.

Yeah the thing I love about container tabs is that they are tabs. I have so many containers, I don't want a separate window for each of them.

Love Apple, profiles for MacOS and Safari, but not iOS.

iOS got profiles the same time. They sync.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/iphd27a9ff22/io...

Sorry meant profiles for the device. You can get profiles with MDM.

Containers work at the tab level, making them usable IMO. And firefox has profiles too.

What do Firefox Containers mitigate that isn’t already covered by simply disabling third party cookies in any browser?

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/how-firefoxs-to...

Thanks. Isolating Google products from one another is a legit use case.

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