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Smart 💡 Idea: use Automatic Profile Switching in Edge to create a Container like experience
The description for containers or multi-containers in Firefox is this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers Multi-Account Containers is a Firefox add-on that lets you separate your wo...
From my point of view, this is not an equivalent solution to firefox tab containers with different pre-conditions and user experence.
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The firefox tab containers
1. no need for extra Microsoft accounts.
2. consistent plug-ins
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multiple profiles in Edge
1. Multiple Microsoft accounts are needed.
2. Data and plug-ins are inconsistent between different profiles.
What is needed in my senarios.
I use AWS in my day-to-day work and t would be nice if I can open multiple pages of the AWS console with different accounts in each. To do this, the direct way I know is to isolate the session and cookies, so each page will read its own session and cookie, without distube or awaring of other sessions and cookies. This is how firefox tab containers do it, and it works well for me.
Better I love edge and I hope Edge has this feature too.
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The firefox tab containers
1. no need for extra Microsoft accounts.
2. consistent plug-ins
------------------------------
multiple profiles in Edge
1. Multiple Microsoft accounts are needed.
2. Data and plug-ins are inconsistent between different profiles.
What is needed in my senarios.
I use AWS in my day-to-day work and t would be nice if I can open multiple pages of the AWS console with different accounts in each. To do this, the direct way I know is to isolate the session and cookies, so each page will read its own session and cookie, without distube or awaring of other sessions and cookies. This is how firefox tab containers do it, and it works well for me.
Better I love edge and I hope Edge has this feature too.
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jasongerhardt wrote:
From my point of view, this is not an equivalent solution to firefox tab containers with different pre-conditions and user experence.
---------------------
The firefox tab containers
1. no need for extra Microsoft accounts.
2. consistent plug-ins
------------------------------
multiple profiles in Edge
1. Multiple Microsoft accounts are needed.
2. Data and plug-ins are inconsistent between different profiles.
What is needed in my senarios.
I use AWS in my day-to-day work and t would be nice if I can open multiple pages of the AWS console with different accounts in each. To do this, the direct way I know is to isolate the session and cookies, so each page will read its own session and cookie, without distube or awaring of other sessions and cookies. This is how firefox tab containers do it, and it works well for me.
Better I love edge and I hope Edge has this feature too.Multiple Microsoft accounts are not needed. You can create local profiles in Edge not connected to any online accounts.
