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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

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I did not know that. Thanks.

Edit: see jshier’s response.

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