We would be able to use multiple accounts on same site without any problems ...
Something like Firefox multi account containers by default.
The two main ways this could be implemented is like Firefox or like Chrome. I prefer Firefox's way. Chrome basically lets you open another window with a different profile and that one can have different accounts. Technically Firefox can do this too but it's not ideal. Firefox's main way is through the multi account container extension, but this can easily be integrated into the browser instead. Basically the tool lets you create and name containers. Then, you can open new tabs in the new containers, and every container has separate cookies. This lets you easily use multiple accounts, for example you can have one container with your personal accounts signed in and another with your work/school accounts signed in. There are also options to open a link in a container, or always open a certain site in a container, etc. If Orion was to go this route then there may be other optimizations or features that can be added onto this design if anyone has ideas.
hoesglad Basically the tool lets you create and name containers. Then, you can open new tabs in the new containers, and every container has separate cookies.
And unlike Chromium's profiles, all extensions work throughout all websites/containers, no need to install separately for each container. Chromium gives a separate window, as if another fresh install of the browser where you customise/harden again whereas FF has the same window with multiple containers (of course you can have multiple windows with diff containers if you wish) but all settings remain throughout, only no container can access data of other container.
hoesglad I much prefer profiles for separating work/school browsing from personal browsing. I do like container tabs too, just not for this purpose.
I think containers are better used in combination with profiles. Take this example: Your job is to manage servers. You have to login to the same server control panel, but using different credentials for each client. You would want this in your work profile, but then use containers to separate each server login.
I hope that example make sense.
Profile tabs would be better. So I don't have to simultaneously use Safari Technology Preview, Safari, and Orion all at the same time.
I use separate browsers for school and personal use. I use Safari sometimes when Orion does not support that website, technology preview as Orion does not have profile options. And Safari also has compact tabs.
For me I use school accounts and I use personal accounts all on the same device across several browsers, so for me maybe if I choose to stick to one browser it would be nice to have "containers" or "Profiles" that have their own cache, cookies, and history, that way I can sign into my schools outlook account and my own personal outlook account at the same time in the same browser but different profiles... Same with YouTube, I was not allowed to watch YouTube on my school account for high school but while I was at home I ended up almost watching YouTube videos on my school account while at home, so it is useful to isolate accounts and activities...
I would love to have Containers because of the Temporary Containers addon. This is the only way I visit sites, with automatic temporary containers. Only on sites where I want to stay logged in I use a specific Container. I set them up to open automatically. This way even if I highlight a word from a temporary container and invoke a kagi seach by right click a kagi container where I'm logged in automatically opens itself. I click on a kagi result and a new temporary container automatically opens itself.
I've set up similar automatic and exclusive containers for Duckduckgo (so my settings aren't reset), discord (to stay logged in) and a bunch of other sites.
Temporary containers are better than tabs in a private window, because I can open multiple sites in the same temporary tab (through easy right click) and they all keep me logged in, while in a new tab of a private window I get logged out.
The best thing about temporary containers is that the site data (cookies...) all get deleted once I close the last tab of that specific temp container.
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Multi Accounts Containers are a perfect way of handling multiple sessions, for example for Web Designers, Community Managers, Social Workers, Teachers, Students, just to name a few. You can isolate your Social Media Users in one Container and avoid having data collected and asociated . As a web designer i have to use a lot of different sessions (one for each project) where i can log into Sites and Social Profiles to work.
Here its a screenshot of how Multi Accounts Containers can work flawleslly with Vertical Tabs (the screenshot is from my firefox)
Link to full size screenshot
I would love containers as well. Especially for using multiple acounts on a single website. Firefox can even create specific account containers based on the command+t shortcut you use, and subsequently the tab will be highlighted differently or have an outline over it that indicates that it is different from the default containre.
Came here and created a registration just to repeat/support this feature request. I have too many workflows that require me to be logged into the same site simultaneously under wildly different identities (while still using all extensions on all sites). I can't give up Firefox Multi-Account Containers.
Have my up vote. This is the number one feature that keeps Firefox as my primary browser.
Private tabs are already containers, except that their contents are not saved when quitting the browser.
@Vlad Now what needs to be done is simply save the contents of those temporary files and convert them from temporary files to permanent files to be read in storage, such as the temporary cookies created when in a private tab in a folder somewhere.
any updates on this?
I would personally be happy enough if the Firefox extension could be supported but a native solution would be even nicer, too. Definitely the main thing holding me back from using Orion full-time.
This, for me, is one of the most important features out of a modern browser. The short of it is that it allows you to very quickly sandbox the web and run multiple websites in differing states.
In FireFox, which I think is the best implementation of this, all; web session data, cookies, etc. are housed within a user curated container. You can have one for work, personal use, shopping, banking, etc. and choose whether to permanently assign website to 'always open' in the specified container or just a one of instance.
This is fantastic for managing Google and other service logins between work and personal, purely based on what container the browser was told to open the website in.
The key bullet points Mozilla use for the feature are a pretty good reflection on the use case:
- Sign in to two different accounts on the same site (for example, you could sign in to work email and home email in two different Container tabs.
- Keep different kinds of browsing far away from each other (for example, you might use one Container tab for managing your Checking Account and a different Container tab for searching for new songs by your favorite band)
- Avoid leaving social-network footprints all over the web (for example, you could use a Container tab for signing in to a social network, and use a different tab for visiting online news sites, keeping your social identity separate from tracking scripts on news sites)
I would love to see this implemented in a browser as performant as this one ️ although I could imagine it being a lot of work creating the required abstraction layer, probably more a wedge, between the current methods being used to cache and store web session data before even approaching the task of adding in the UI/UX side of things.