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As a DevOps Engineer having to log in to multiple clouds with multiple roles for multiple clients, Firefox Containers is the Holy Grail. I hope to see this in Orion.

Orion is an awesome browser and it's a great user experience! I have signed up as an Orion+ lifetime member

Thank you in advance :-)

Dear Orion Community,
I am really enjoying using Orion and all the built-in features out of the box, such as the development tools. The more I explore, the more I am wowed by this browser. It's very lightweight on resources, and combined with Kagi is the Swiss Army knife of browsers combined with SpaceX rocket speed.

As a DevOps Engineer, I need to log in to multiple clouds, multiple environments (non-prod, pre-prod and prod) using multiple roles for multiple clients. I have tried the profile route, but this ends up being a lot of config, each profile requiring the extensions I use, each profile window needs configuration and management and involves much context switching. I figure you could combine profiles with containers to allow multiple role logins for that particular profile.

Firefox's containers is the holy grail, allowing an engineer, for example, to group multiple AWS roles and environments and add to that the AWS SSO Containers extension, and you have a powerful all in one window solution which I prefer.

I did try installing Firefox Containers from the Add-ons store, but the experience was suboptimal and didn't function like in Firefox itself. I just get the spinning blue donut. I also tried turning compatibility mode on and off and reinstalling the extension.




Would the Orion devs consider adding a Firefox containers like solution to the browser ever or even just being able to use Firefox Containers and sync my current Firefox container data would be awesome too.

Thank you.

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      While you’re implementing this, please consider that Firefox also allows the user to provide a proxy per container profile. I’m using this extensively together with SSH SOCKS tunnels in order to access different internal services on different production sites around the world. This is the only thing that’s keeping me with LibreWolf. Let me know if it makes sense to have an extra topic for this. Thanks.

        3 months later

        @Vlad I saw that RC 128 was released not too long ago, and was hoping to see multi-account container support in there, but no luck. Could you please let us know if this feature is still on the roadmap?

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          22 days later

          Created an account to comment on this. I use containers to completely segregate all Facebook properties (Facebook, Instagram , etc). Most web based companies are doing tracking, but the idea of those Facebook Like buttons everywhere tracking my every move is very unappealing.

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            Vlad Given that one doesn't always know in advance whether an unfamiliar website (or a different page on, say, eBay) is going to have one of Facebook's "like" buttons, I would think one would wind up having to create a new profile whenever opening a search result on an unfamiliar website (or whenever clicking on a search result in eBay). The Facebook container takes care of that for you. In Firefox, if you open a page that has a Facebook "like" button on it, the extension's icon shows a purple dot with an exclamation point, and if you click the icon you get a message letting you know that Facebook doesn't see that you've been to that page, but warning you that if you click the "like" button, that page will be tied to your Facebook identity (I'm assuming that you'd have to be signed in to Facebook in order for this to happen, but I don't know for sure).

            Vlad Can I force all Facebook and Instagram links to open in a certain profile?

              apastuszak No but that is a different ask, already addressed with a a different feature suggestion here.

                Basically, the feature idea would be a bit like Arc where the Browser would have a hierarchy like:
                Browser Window -> Profile (If two profiles or more are active right now) -> Tabs under that profile.

                Profiles would share extensions if the user requests so.

                The idea is to be able to be able to login with various accounts on the same service concurrently.
                E.g. Logged in two different AWS accounts at the same time and able to multi-task.

                I'm aware this may be very costly feature-wise depending on how Orion was coded.

                • Vlad replied to this.
                  eirk changed the title to Multiple profiles/spaces with their own tabs .

                    not quite sure what u mean. i do use arc, but ur explanation is kinda confusing.
                    are you looking for how arc makes one window basically have everything, swiping between sidebars for different spaces (which can potentially switch between profiles)?

                      eirk
                      No, imagine opening multiple incognito mode sessions with all extensions working by default, but keep them all in the same browser window.

                        all private tabs are isolated from one another. i think this already is the behavior you're asking for?

                          4 days later

                          CostcoFanboy The ask is not clear. Assume we are not familiar with Arc. Can you describe the journey from where Orion is now to achieve tne minium feature set you want?

                            23 days later

                            Possible duplicate of multi-account containers

                            This ask is describing multiple different “profiles/containers” that can exist under a single window and share extensions, but have separate cookies/site data. (for the purpose of logging into sites under different accounts)

                            “Sessions” in Orion will fulfill this request.