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Re:IPFS Support in Brave by toyg on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:46PM (#25840583)
There is an extension for everything, that’s not the point. Firefox ships it as standard and supports it as such.
Re:IPFS Support in Brave by input_sh on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:01AM (#25844177)
There's a similar thing shipped in Chrome now called Tab Groups, you just have to enable it behind chrome://flags.

In my view it's nowhere near as nice as it is on Firefox, with site isolation (Facebook, Google, Twitter, reddit), temporary containers, and a myriad of other add-ons that improve managing them (keyboard shortcuts and transition rules are the two I use the most).

Re:IPFS Support in Brave by xevrem on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @06:21AM (#25845085)
tab groups are not equivalent to containers.

its more like Vivaldi's tab stacks or FF's Tree Tabs. With groups there are no inherent additional security mechanisms in place to prevent cross-group contamination/access. i.e., two different tab groups can access the same site data.

containers however are completely isolated from each other. i.e., two different containers have completely different sets of site data.

Re:IPFS Support in Brave by toyg on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:33AM (#25848404)
> no inherent additional security mechanisms in place to prevent cross-group contamination/access

Are you saying the biggest advertiser on the planet likely doesn't want to add functionality that could potentially hinder tracking for advertising purposes...?

I am shocked, shocked and appalled. /s

Re:IPFS Support in Brave by minitoar on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:49PM (#25840620)
Forgive my ignorance, but I think the thing OP linked is also an addon?
Re:IPFS Support in Brave by pricci on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:08PM (#25840812)
Firefox has the containerization built in. You can use it without the extension but with worst UX.

> For advanced users: You can also enable Containers without the Multi-Account Containers extension, by changing some preferences in the Configuration Editor (about:config page). Note that you will get a better user experience by installing the extension but, if you choose not to, you can set privacy.userContext.enabled to true, privacy.userContext.ui.enabled to true and privacy.userContext.longPressBehavior to 2 in about:config.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

Re:IPFS Support in Brave by marcolussetti on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:06PM (#25840795)
You are not wrong. However it's a first-party extension, as in it's from Mozilla.

Debatable how significant that is as a difference.

Re:IPFS Support in Brave by toyg on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:05PM (#25840783)
It’s an addon from Mozilla itself that just surfaces a bit of UI for advanced controls. The actual feature is already baked in the browser, they’ve just been very conservative about exposing it to everyone.