I suspect it would be fairly straightforward to make an extension that set a per-window default container, but I agree that it should be built in functionality. (Whether that default should override site-specific container rules, I'm not sure... I kind of want both options, but I guess that's where it starts getting complex.)
I'm annoyed by the lack of integration between container and history. I never really want to clear history for a non-private window, but I do want to be able to restrict what I see by container when it makes sense and not restrict when it doesn't. My main grievance: searching for open tabs (either by prefixing the location bar entry with "% " or by choosing the Open Tabs option from the dropdown that appears when you start entering something) should match across all tabs, at least in the context of a freshly-opened new tab.
> Containers are only tabs - so you can't, for instance, create a window and have all future tabs created in that window inherit that container
True, but if that's something you want, you can do that without the multi-account container tabs. Just create a new profile that's separate from the default one. The drawback to that is you have to reinstall any extensions you use because they won't be shared.
I definitely would not want to default to disabling it. It's my browser, and letting it remember where I've been enables it to be much more useful to me.
They are a killer idea but their implementation is disappointing.
In no particular order ...
- You can't clear history for a particular container space [1]
- Containers are only tabs - so you can't, for instance, create a window and have all future tabs created in that window inherit that container
- No "private" (or "burner") container that saves nothing outside of each individual tab
No, I am not interested in solving these basic, first-order use-cases with some rando extension from joey75 @ gitlabusercontent.downloads.tv.
[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1170863