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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by daveFNbuck on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:07AM (#18625491)
They're quite practical even if you don't care about tracking. I have different containers for my work and personal Google accounts and they make things much easier than relying on Google's support for multiple accounts.

They're also great for development. I have different containers for each user I use while working on logged-in flows. I can just go from tab to tab to test different user experiences or switch between users in a multi-user interaction.

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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by dspillett on Friday December 07, 2018 @06:12AM (#18626693)
This is one of the things I used to like IE for - perhaps the only thing it got better than the competition:

    File | New Session
... and then you have a fresh session context that doesn't share cookies with the others so you can log into services as different users. As a developer this is very handy for testing multi-user workflows, and had numerous uses as a more general user too, and it was easy to do ad-hoc without needing to setup multiple profiles first.

It didn't work for apps that are sensitive to permanent cookies (and other client-side storage) instead if session level options of course, where multiple profiles does (as presumably does Firefoxes containers? - I don't know as I've not yet used them).

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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by daveFNbuck on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:57PM (#18629891)
That does sound useful. I often end up creating several temporary containers while doing testing and development. The overhead of creating and deleting these is annoying.
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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by ric2b on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:47AM (#18628596)
That sounds more like incognito mode, no?

Containers keep the cookies and other data, yes, so you don't need to re-login every time you start the browser.

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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by dspillett on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @06:34AM (#18663011)
> That sounds more like incognito mode, no?

Yes, but you can have as many active sessions as you need instead of just two.

Incognito/InPrivate/whet-ever-other-browsers-call-the-feature tabs/windows share the same session so that gives you at most two active sessions: normal and incognito.

The "new session" option in IE can have many more. For a lot of workflows two is enough, but sometimes I want something like "a couple of distinct base users, a manager, and an admin" for testing more complex user workflows.

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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by philsnow on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:08AM (#18628800)
I don't know how edge does incognito but in other browsers, incognito kills the tab history, so if you accidentally close a tab you can't trivially restore it with ctrl+shift+t or whatever.
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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by wungsten on Monday December 10, 2018 @09:36PM (#18652946)
This is the case in Chrome but not in Firefox (private mode)
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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by M2Ys4U on Friday December 07, 2018 @06:39AM (#18626841)
Absolutely!

I use them so I can be logged in to multiple AWS accounts at the same time - works like a charm!

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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by daveFNbuck on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:02PM (#18629935)
That's one of my use cases too. It works pretty well when you're actively using multiple accounts. Amazon doesn't preserve the session very long, so I find that most of the time I open one of my AWS containers they're logged out.
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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by pookeh on Friday December 07, 2018 @08:19AM (#18627383)
I use this extension called SessionBox on Chrome to do exactly this. It gives me different sessions side by side in the same window.
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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by fernandotakai on Friday December 07, 2018 @07:46AM (#18627167)
the only thing i miss from containers is a shortcut to open a new tab using current container[0]. it would make usage a lot easier.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/4...

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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by daveFNbuck on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:56PM (#18629870)
That would be nice. I'd also like the to be able to automatically revert to default container when leaving a site (like the FB container plugin does), to view/manage cookies by container, and to specify more than one container that I like to open sites in so it doesn't bug me about using my default Google container when I open gmail in my work container.
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