Multi-Account Containers

irongamer

The containers addon really needs to be added. I'm basically stuck with Firefox until some other browsers start to use the feature. Containers are NOT a private window and NOT a profile manager, it is so much more and mainly how it functions in the UI.

You can setup a personal container and a work container for example. Open a tab as personal and visit gmail and you get your personal gmail. Open a tab as work, visit gmail, and you get your work gmail.

Sites can also be forced to a specific container (tab). So if you directly visit reddit, click a link to reddit, or are directed to reddit the site will load only in the social container.

Containers can be assigned colors and an icon so by just glancing at your tabs you know which are work, personal, or social.

IMO containers are hands down the best feature since Chrome landed. At this point I'll need to be paid a hefty sum to move to a browser that does not have containers.

keeganwitt

I've wondered if Opera starting this feature (they call them workspaces and they're not very feature rich yet) would get this feature prioritized.

irongamer

@keeganwitt

Oh, nice catch! Good to see the idea spreading.

maurer

I like this.

ntekas

adding my wish to see this feature on vivaldi, it is probably the last thing that i need on vivaldi to change from firefox to it. I am using vivaldi for many things, mainly media (videos and streams) but i do all the account stuff and real work on firefox because containers really make my life easier and i like the privacy(very important)

scrutinizer

Very useful feature. A must-have for the modern web.
(adding my voice to the choir)

irongamer

@scrutinizer said in Multi-Account Containers:

Very useful feature. A must-have for the modern web.
(adding my voice to the choir)

And it sounds all the better.

dmg

I would really like a facebook container to keep facebook in a box. likewise with google. This is firefox's biggest selling feature.

ayapejian

Just adding my "me to", this keeps me from using vivaldi 100% for everything. Trying to use AWS multi-account in the console is a pita without firefox containers.

pavel.pavlenda

The same for me guys, I keep using Firefox because of this feature.

brunofo2maison

Hello,

I agree with this subject, I'm still using Firefox in some case just because of this feature. I think it may be very useful in Vivaldi.

molex

@JohnConnorBear cent browser, that developed by one man, have container tabs feature.

The same can be done by opening tabs of different users in the same browser window. I suppose it is not difficult for developers, especially with a custom browser UI. For each profile developers can add settings for auto-deleting cookies and other privacy features, that will be integrated into the functionality of the built-in ad blocker, for example.

mbisi

Container tab it one of the best feature of firefox and i really love that could be implemented in Vivaldi too

VENIX

@Dragory Sadly for it is a great, most useful and a solid leap in privacy feature.

The main issue being Chromium/Blink. I don't think Team Vivaldi is going to rewrite or greatly modified Chromium/Blink at their end to just to add support for what Mozilla's Multi-Account Container does. Support would have to come from the source.

The sad part is seeing how many fail to understand what M.A.C. is and with the ease it does it (from the user perceptive)

ryofurue

I've just come across this extension:

https://switchextension.com

I've just installed it and sure enough under it, I'm now able to have two Gmail tabs for two different Google accounts.

I don't know how the extension is implemented.

What do you think? Is this a solution to the problem discussed here? Or is it severely limited compared to the "Container" solution requested here?

Ayespy

@ryofurue It doesn't sound as though it addressed anything on this thread.

And I have always had multiple GMail tabs for different accounts open at the same time. No extension or multi-account container required.

VENIX

@Ayespy Hello. Do you mind sharing how?

Ayespy

@VENIX After I sign in to one account, I click on the avatar for that account (right side top of page) and accept the invitation to "add another account." That opens a new tab with an OAuth dialog, where I can sign in to whatever other account I would like to.

Here's 3 gmail account tabs stacked with each other.

VENIX

@ryofurue The website gives a vague presentation of how it does what it does. The whole "it is magic" presentation they imply, specially for an extension that will sit in my browser and have access to my browsing sessions is something I do not welcome.

Reading the privacy policy, it looks like one needs an account to use the extension? Why!?
We just need containers to handle cookies for multi-sessions and options to set domains to use and always open on the containers we set. There is no need to phone home nor anything of the like.

The best solution for the matter at hand is something built in-house by the team that builds and maintains the browser. Something 100% local.

VENIX

@Ayespy Ah, you use Googles own solution to multi-accounts loggins.

This is not what I and others here seek and hope to one day see built into Vivaldi.

We seek multi-cookie containers support which allow to handle multi-sessions each with their own cookies container. This keeps the cookies of the website(s) you open inside said containers contained and unable to see what other websites one has open on the browser. This is due to the handling of 1st party cookies by the browser which all tabs have access to. One container for all tabs thus all websites have access to all cookies.