Hi @Saoiray I would say later this year. A challenge with these features are architectural (split view, playlist) and making sure we’re able to maintain them. With workspaces and containers, there are a few implementations out there from other browsers and we want to make sure we’re meeting expectations with how people want to use it.
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What do you like or dislike about the Workspaces/Multi-account containers/Profiles features you’ve used in other browsers?
Multiple tabs in the same window being able to use different sets of cookies
What are the biggest frustrations you experience when trying to keep your different online activities separate and organized in your browser?
firefox multi account containers doesn’t have a temporary container option by default.
There’s an extension for it however. I like that in particular because I can once again stick to just one browser window without e.g. ruining my algorithm on online stores just for looking up an item.
Why doesn’t the profile functionality work for you? You can have multiple profiles, each working as a clean slate for the browser in the practical sense.
Multiple windows are hard to keep track of and take up vast amounts of space.
For what specific situations would you find it helpful to have separate “spaces” or “containers” within your browser? (e.g., work projects, personal projects, different clients, social media management, etc.)
As I said, online market places. Also websites where you have a second throwaway account
What problems do you encounter when switching between different online accounts (e.g., multiple email accounts, social media profiles, work accounts)?
bookmarks on firefox don’t save their container which can be quite annoying
What kind of information do you want to keep separate between these “spaces” (e.g., Browse history, cookies, logins, extensions, themes)?
for me it’s just the cookies. I do however think that browsing history entries should stay in a container, (even if that container does no longer exist).
When separating different logins/sessions, is having them visible and accessible within the same browsing window important to you?
yes
Are there any specific websites or web applications that you would always want to open in a particular “space” automatically?
I don’t think this would make any sense if the entire purpose of the containers was just to restrict cookies. Containers in my case only ever make sense if I want multiple logins for the same website. If I want a login to be the default I just log into the website without a container since that’ll automatically be the default.
In the case of container-specific settings it would however make sense.
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As a uni student, this is the most important feature that turned me away from Brave. I usually work with different projects simultaneously, so I need a workspace for each project which holds a group of related tabs (e.g. Subject 1 assignment, Subject 2 assignment, etc.).
In terms of implementation, you guys can take a look at Arc browser. I think they have the best implementation of this workspace feature. Basically I need sth that can help me keep track of my different tab groups and switch between them quickly if needed, nothing too fancy.
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Made an account just for this. It is the one thing that keeps me on FF.
What do you like or dislike about the Workspaces/Multi-account containers/Profiles features you’ve used in other browsers?
This is the deal breaking feature for me.
Multiple clients/accounts for many sites. All needing different SSO, Sessions etc etc.
Switching entire browser windows in cumbersome and slow. Spreading over multiple virtual desktops is slow. But mostly breaks your mental flow state.
What are the biggest frustrations you experience when trying to keep your different online activities separate and organized in your browser?
FF has this feature almost perfect. I only wish I had more colour options for the containers and could have a little more control about which containers open for which urls (sometimes you want the same url in multiple containers under different users(.
Why doesn’t the profile functionality work for you? You can have multiple profiles, each working as a clean slate for the browser in the practical sense.
Answered in the first question. But it comes down to multiple windows is far less efficient
For what specific situations would you find it helpful to have separate “spaces” or “containers” within your browser? (e.g., work projects, personal projects, different clients, social media management, et
Containers for different use cases. A container for work (in my case multiple “works”) (think aws,outlook,teams etc etc).
I can pin all the outlook/gmail tabs for example to the same browser window and switch between email clients with ctrl+1,2,3 etc
Same for AWS accounts, different container for each…
Same for SSO services, I can keep 1 active per container and switch between things seemlessly
Lastly a personal container, and a banking container etc etc…
What problems do you encounter when switching between different online accounts (e.g., multiple email accounts, social media profiles, work accounts)?
Sign in / sign out hassle, everything has 2fa on top of it… (right click link → open in X container is a god send)
What kind of information do you want to keep separate between these “spaces” (e.g., Browse history, cookies, logins, extensions, themes)?
cookies, logins, sessions, local storage, cosmetic can be optional imo. Shared history is handy
Are there any specific websites or web applications that you would always want to open in a particular “space” automatically?
Many… Office365, Aws. Need to be a way to tell the browser to remember this url+metadata = a certain container. In FF there is a “Always open in X container” button.
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I am coming from Arc. Their workspace implementation is great, and I really think copying what they did would be an excellent starting point. In Arc:
- Profiles and workspaces are separate things
- Profiles are a containerized session with separate cookies, cache, extensions, etc
- Workspaces are a UI construct where favorites, bookmarks, and tabs live, independent of other workspaces
- What they did well was give the ability to assign a profile to a given workspace, meaning that swapping from one workspace to another automatically changes profiles.
It is important not to miss that they make swapping between workspaces very easy. I can do it with hotkeys or just by clicking the forward/back buttons on my mouse when hovering over the sidebar. Since profiles are attached to workspaces, I don’t need to think about changing profiles after initially setting them. It just happens. No clicking into settings, opening new windows, etc.
I have a personal workspace, with all of my personal accounts are signed in. I then have a work workspace where all of my active work and accounts live, and I have another workspace set up for an organization I work with. I didn’t make a third profile for this, my “personal” profile is hooked up to both my “personal” workspace and this third workspace. It all works quite seamlessly, and it means that if I ever leave my job I just need to delete my work profile and workspace and everything is gone, without messing with my personal things.
The only feature related to this that Arc does not have is that profiles are currently not synced with my account, meaning that I need to set it up on each new PC. It would be wonderful for all profiles to sync with my Brave account so that signing in on a new PC would bring my whole life over.
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Hi, thanks a lot for considering this feature i would really love to have it on Brave!!
What do you like or dislike about the Workspaces/Multi-account containers/Profiles features you’ve used in other browsers?
- I really love that i can have as many different sessions as i want in one profile and in one window, it makes my browsing experience just much better without having to juggle multiple windows. I’ve been using the Zen browser (and previously firefox) in parallel because they support workspaces and mutli account containers but if Brave implements this feature then there would be no reason for me to use any other browser. As for what i dislike about their implementations, i would say i wish I could set domain-based mapping, whereby github is always opened on my work container but ycombinator always opens on my personal one. Another thing i wish they had is being able to filter browsing history based on the container.
What are the biggest frustrations you experience when trying to keep your different online activities separate and organized in your browser?
- it’s a pain having to use multiple profiles just so i can have persistent sessions, it makes my workflow far from seamless. So for tasks that involve using multiple sessions I would just use Zen instead.
Why doesn’t the profile functionality work for you? You can have multiple profiles, each working as a clean slate for the browser in the practical sense.
- Profiles force me to open a new window for each account, which clutters my desktop and disrupts my flow. i’m constantly jumping between windows and losing track of tabs and getting slowed down. I need a seamless, all-in-one view to switch between work, personal, and social accounts quickly and profiles just feel too isolated and clunky for that use case.
For what specific situations would you find it helpful to have separate “spaces” or “containers” within your browser? (e.g., work projects, personal projects, different clients, social media management, etc.)
- I’d use separate spaces for work stuff like emails, project tools, and client accounts, plus one for personal browsing and social media. So i’d create a container with a client’s name and have all accounts related to their projects open there.
What kind of information do you want to keep separate between these “spaces” (e.g., Browse history, cookies, logins, extensions, themes)?
- mainly cookies and logins, the others would be really nice to have.
When separating different logins/sessions, is having them visible and accessible within the same browsing window important to you?
- Yes, this is the most important part about it, being able to right click my new tab button and choosing in which container i want the new tab to be, right clicking a tab and transfering it to another container, and setting default containers for each workspace is very useful.
Are there any specific websites or web applications that you would always want to open in a particular “space” automatically?
- yes, reddit, github, yt, calendar, certain blogs, aws console, etc
in addition, i think split windows with vertical and horizontal panes would complement this feature greatly!
I hope to see this feature implemented in Brave it would make it a one stop browser for me
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Thanks so much for considering this! I may finally be able to leave Mozilla and their random policies (never forget firefox 126…) in the dust.
What do you like or dislike about the Workspaces/Multi-account containers/Profiles features you’ve used in other browsers?
Firefox’s containers are simple and intuitive. They are tabs mixed in with your main Firefox window, but colour coded to show what container the tab is open in.
This colour coding makes it simple to tell from a glance what tabs are open in what container, and it’s the main differentiation from workspaces: I don’t have to open a menu or otherwise to switch between the containers. The simple colour coding system adds no clutter to the screen and is still intuitive.
You can also set custom colours, names, and icons for the containers.
What are the biggest frustrations you experience when trying to keep your different online activities separate and organized in your browser?
I sometimes create different accounts on websites like Google for work, entertainment, etc, and tab groups and workspaces don’t work to keep the accounts separate.
Why doesn’t the profile functionality work for you? You can have multiple profiles, each working as a clean slate for the browser in the practical sense.
You can oversimplify container tabs to being opening a tab in another profile. Keeping track of things in separate windows is much harder when I’m switching between tabs frequently. I want to be able to see everything in one place.
A different profile would also mean ALL cookies are reset across all tabs and websites. Sometimes I only want to separate off a specific website rather than have to set all my preferences for every website again in the new profile.
For what specific situations would you find it helpful to have separate “spaces” or “containers” within your browser? (e.g., work projects, personal projects, different clients, social media management, etc.)
Separating what I’m doing into different categories helps me to concentrate on one thing at a time, but that’s only necessary for some websites, like YouTube.
What problems do you encounter when switching between different online accounts (e.g., multiple email accounts, social media profiles, work accounts)?
Having multiple accounts open at once is messy sometimes (e.g. I don’t want to end the current session in the current account just to check another account quickly).
What kind of information do you want to keep separate between these “spaces” (e.g., Browse history, cookies, logins, extensions, themes)?
Cookies.
When separating different logins/sessions, is having them visible and accessible within the same browsing window important to you?
Yes. That’s the biggest reason other solutions don’t work for me.
Are there any specific websites or web applications that you would always want to open in a particular “space” automatically?
Not for me personally, but in some cases I could see it having privacy benefits, like a social media website not having access to any data in your “Work” container.
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What do you like or dislike about the Workspaces/Multi-account containers/Profiles features you’ve used in other browsers?
The ability to easily opening a persistent tab not connected to my data from other tab example : multiple account of same website in same window, separate data from different tab for more privacy without switch profile or browser.
What are the biggest frustrations you experience when trying to keep your different online activities separate and organized in your browser ?
Not having container accessible in the same window/profile is the missing point that make it harder for me.
Why doesn’t the profile functionality work for you? You can have multiple profiles, each working as a clean slate for the browser in the practical sense.
The ability to have different container in the same window. I’think profile is a good feature but having the ability that when you switch profile it close the old one (but keeping tabs status save) could really be the missing feature for me. But I view profile and container as different feature for different usages and preferences.
For what specific situations would you find it helpful to have separate “spaces” or “containers” within your browser? (e.g., work projects, personal projects, different clients, social media management, etc.)
Social Media - Shopping - Work.
What problems do you encounter when switching between different online accounts (e.g., multiple email accounts, social media profiles, work accounts)?
For me the container feature is more about privacy and not having to reconnect every time for multiple account on same website.
What kind of information do you want to keep separate between these “spaces” (e.g., Browse history, cookies, logins, extensions, themes)?
Mainly cookie and login. But it could be cool to have the option to choose which data are share.
When separating different logins/sessions, is having them visible and accessible within the same browsing window important to you?
YES it’s the main reason i’really want the container feature.
Are there any specific websites or web applications that you would always want to open in a particular “space” automatically?
IDK
Thank you for your work and I’hope the container feature will be available soon !
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Hi, thanks for your replies.
I’ll be waiting for this option to rollout…
I love the seamless, 1 click, workspaces in opera, I have one for general personal usage, one for uni stuff and one for work… being 1 click and accessible on the toolbar is great!
some important features that are important for me (and also why dont profiles meet my needs):
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All workspaces are mine not other people’s, so I like that extensions, passwords, cookies and so on work on all of them (I understand that other ppl might prefer the oposite, so it could be a toggle to share or not each of these things)
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If I had the option to “put a workspace to sleep” (dumping memory to disk), and a toggle to do it automatically when swiching, would be very apreciated for resources management.
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They should be on the same “window” I dont want more things on my “alt + tab” list of apps.
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I would love to always have some specific pinned tabs on each workspace, my work email and google agenda mainly for the work workspace, same for the academic but on the specific academic email I like. but again resources management, something like a tab “deep freeze” for resources managements are important for me. a lofi radio as well probabily on youtube and spotfy are always opened in specific workspeces but different vibes for each playlist.
Thank you for creating this tread, I am very much looking foward to swich from opera (that have been very buggy and crashing all the time reseting my tab islands), I am just waiting for this seamless 1click workspaces switch in brave to return to it.
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Don’t you think it would be better the inverse approach? The profiles having their own different workspaces? so on your work profile you have different workspaces for different projects/clients
And on the personal one, one workspace for social media, one for movies and so on.
Having the same workspaces in all profiles don’t seem that useful for me, but please expand on the topic, I find it fascinating.
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@Aloncy Profiles in Arc are the same as profiles in Brave, so adding a profile to a (work)space is just an alternative UI concept.
It was stated above that workspaces in Arc have their own bookmarks, which was confusing me, but this article states that Arc profiles contain logins, passwords & autofill, History, Cookies, Favorites, Extensions and Settings
It has a section titled How to add a Profile to a Space
So whereas a Brave user might conceive of their profiles and workspaces as
Work
|____ Cllient 1
|____ Cllient 2
Home
|____ Sports club
An Arc user would think in terms of
Client 1 (work)
Client 2 (work)
Sports club (home)
Here’s another article which includes a screenshot of an Arc dialog prompting the user to select spaces to be added to a new profile.
Arc is mostly a single-window application, so moving a workspace between profiles is not as weird as it would be in Brave.
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Great! I’m a firefox refugee, so i’m excited for brave to pick the idea up, here are my answers:
I’ll be honest and say i don’t have enough knowledge on how it’s managed under the hood. My understanding is that it would be two browser instances running vs one instance running (i would rather save resources and have one instance running).
It also means i have to manage multiple profiles - i need to install my extensions on them and configure them(and the browser itself of course) to my liking, while what i want is just a simple separation of cookie/site data containers. All of the extensions are being managed in one place and apply to all of the containers.
Working with multiple profiles i don’t have an easy way to open a link from an one website into another container. Currently i can click the link i want to open and just select to open it in another container from the menu. With multiple profiles i would have to copy the link, open a new tab in the other profile and paste the link - it’s more effort. [edit: As i’ve explored the Brave more, i’ve noticed there is an easy “open in ” menu option. Brilliant!]
Having just one browser window with color-coded tabs is a bit neater than having multiple windows for the separate profiles. It wouldn’t be a deal-breaker for me, but nice to have.
probably having to remember to open youtube in the separate youtube container, depending on if i want the video to mess up my “algorithm” of watched videos. I know i can remove it from the history but it seems to me that the data lingers there anyway.
It’s useful to have different “faces” for different activities. You don’t go on a job interview with anime ahegao t-shirt, you don’t go to an anime convention to talk about politics, current world events or social grievances. I think that separation is healthy even if the current establishment insist you should be “yourself” everywhere. I disagree: you should be professional at work and fun to be around at parties. If you make an off-colored joke at work - it’s not a good look, but if you police others language at parties so they’re always extremely polite that’s also not good. Everything has it’s place and containers help to achieve that in the virtual space.
For me it’s mostly cookies/site “local” data. For browse history/extensions/themes i think the profiles are already a sufficient route.
It’s nice, but not a deal breaker.
I think the social media-type sites would make sense. But there is a caveat i’ve mentioned before - sometimes i want to let youtube know(or rather don’t mind if they register that) that i’ve watched a particular video, so i select a profile where i’m logged in. Sometimes i just want to check the video out, but don’t want it registered, so i open the tab where i’m not logged in. Sometimes i don’t want it registered, but the access to the video is restricted to a registered account, so i have a “garbage” youtube account and the profile associated to that.
I hope this feedback is helpful and i’m looking forward to the moves towards containers in brave, as i try to accommodate to the brave browser.
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I’ve recently started using Brave again after using Edge for quite a while. One of the main things keeping me from fully switching to Brave is Edge’s Workspaces feature. Edge also has a modern, clean, and beautifully designed interface, which adds to its appeal.
Workspaces in Edge
I have no complaints about Workspaces in Edge—they work seamlessly. A major benefit is that tabs remain open even after closing the browser, making it easy to pick up where I left off.
Profile Functionality in Brave
One issue I have with Brave is that switching profiles isn’t intuitive. Where do I even find the option to switch profiles? If a new user has to hunt for it, that’s a problem. In Edge, switching workspaces is effortless—you simply click the workspace name in the top-left corner, and all available workspaces are listed for easy access. Profile switching in Brave should be just as seamless if that’s the intended alternative.
Separate “Spaces” or “Containers”
To answer the question about whether I find it useful to have separate spaces within a browser (e.g., for work projects, personal projects, different clients, social media management, etc.)—yes, absolutely.
Always-Open Websites & Pinned Tabs
For websites or web applications I always want open, pinned tabs solve this issue. However, pinned tabs in Brave should be more visually distinct. In Edge, pinned tabs are separated by a demarcation line, making it clear which ones are pinned. This small detail improves usability and should be considered for Brave.
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My Answers:
*** What do you like or dislike about the Workspaces/Multi-account containers/Profiles features you’ve used in other browsers?**
LIKE:
1. I can login to different accounts from the same provider in different containers. i.e. multiple gmail logins, multiple 365 orgs login,
2. Doesn’t share cookies across tabs so troubleshooting stays with the tab. For Example I can clear the history on a container: Facebook does not track anything on any other DIFFERENT container tab
3. I can name each “container”
4. I can open a website in a certain container.
5. I am asked if a new website wants to open in the container I am currently using if I put something in the URL bar
6. Some of the extensions seem to keep settings across various tabs (not a big request for me but if you are asking, I do like this feature but not priority for me)
DON’T LIKE:
1. It uses a thick line of the container color on top of the tabs which sometimes is hard to see
*** What are the biggest frustrations you experience when trying to keep your different online activities separate and organized in your browser?**
1. See #1 in the "DON'T LIKE" section above
2. Would be nice to have containers grouped together, when the URL opens (Not priority but nice to have feature)
*** Why doesn’t the profile functionality work for you? You can have multiple profiles, each working as a clean slate for the browser in the practical sense.**
1. If I could make a new profile in a new tab in a single window with other profiles, for me that would work. As long as I could Right click on the Tab and start in "Container or profile"
*** For what specific situations would you find it helpful to have separate “spaces” or “containers” within your browser? (e.g., work projects, personal projects, different clients, social media management, etc.)**
1. For all your examples you stated, I would add Financial Websites, i.e. banks, investment accounts, etc.
*** What problems do you encounter when switching between different online accounts (e.g., multiple email accounts, social media profiles, work accounts)?**
1. I have not encountered any
*** What kind of information do you want to keep separate between these “spaces” (e.g., Browse history, cookies, logins, extensions, themes)?**
1. I would prefer to keep cookie and browse history not accessible to other sites. i.e. Google can't cross domains, facebook can't tell where I've been browsing, shopping sites don't track, etc. etc.
*** When separating different logins/sessions, is having them visible and accessible within the same browsing window important to you?**
1. ONE WINDOW YES. That is the reason I am going back to Firefox but will come back to Brave when this is implemented. I really like brave and what it is though because of the multiple clients I work with that are on multiple 365 orgs and Gmail accounts and other various online tools I can't have so many windows because it would be so confusing. I am always administration to all of them throughout the day and having to login multiple times on the same window is cumbersome if I were to use Brave browser for that job.
*** Are there any specific websites or web applications that you would always want to open in a particular “space” automatically?**
- Yes, 365 Admin pages, social medias, gmail accounts,
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For me Firefox’s Containers are the gold standard IMO. Being able to completely segregate logins, cookies, sessions, etc while using a single browser window. For personal use it is great for keeping social media sessions restricted to its “space” and other information (banking, email, etc) isolated to their own. For work they make it easy to have multiple environments (dev/test/prod) open in separate tabs within the same browser window which can make troubleshooting between them easier. You can also set any site you want to always open in a specified container, which prevents accidentally cross contaminating data.
I’m just switching over to Brave right now but it looks like lot more hassle and at risk of clutter and cross contamination. Setting up 15+ profiles, having each profile in a different browser window, and you have to remember to switch to the correct window when going to certain sites is daunting to say the least. FF Containers is simple to setup and opens the correct container in a tab in the same window automatically - reducing the risk of user error.
Work projects, banking, bill pay, social media, shopping, emails, site quarantining (e.g. any google service is regulated to its own sandboxed container away from anything else).
Without containers it is on the user to remember which browser or profile I need to switch to before opening a site or clicking a link. Containers can automatically handle all that once websites are assigned to the container by automatically opening the link in a new tab in the correct container.
My only real complaints about Containers in Firefox are that a single thick colored line on the top of the tab is used to denote which container it is when looking at non-active tabs on the tab bar and you are limited to 8 colors. It would be nice to have more color options and the color more prominently displayed on the tab.
Definitely browser history, cookies, logins. Extensions might have some use cases but themes would have no value to me.
Absolutely critical. I have 15+ containers in Firefox today that are set and forget. Doing the same workflows with profiles and multiple browser windows gets unwieldy fast.
All websites should be configurable to be automatically open in its assigned “space” when visited. Almost all of my FF containers today are set to only open certain websites in those given containers. If I click a link to youtube or google from a different container, it opens in the “Google Services” container automatically instead of the current tab/container. The same goes for links to various environments for work - if I click a link in an email to a particular environment it opens in the correct container automatically - avoiding risks of potential cross contamination.
Edit: Spelling mistakes
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I’m not so interested about Workspaces. But Multi containers is the main reason why I stick to Firefox. It’s a must have for my work.
As some users said, I need too containers to login multiple accounts separately in the same profile. For example at work we use all Microsoft 365 services. As an admin, I have to switch to different account for different purposes (I’m always connected to my own user account and the general admin account). I also like to separate social networks from my main browsing profile. Each container has its own session and manage cookies separately.
There was SessionBox extension for Chromium browser, but it has been replaced by a subscription model. The old basic free extension did the job, but is not as close as the Firefox Multi containers.
I was dreaming for this feature on Brave. Please bring this to us !!
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This answer is perfect. It’s all I wanted to say. Containers are more useful and easy to use than creating profiles.
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I use workspaces in other browsers because they save my tabs regardless of the situation. Since some time, I have problems with stability of my system, resulting from problems with Nvidia drivers, and I have to hard reboot my computer from time to time. Browsers with workspaces save my tabs automatically in such situations. Also, I’m working regularly on 2 different computers, and I cannot easily transfer my tabs to another computer (just picking tabs from Brave sync isn’t the best solution).
- What do you like or dislike about the Workspaces/Multi-account containers/Profiles features you’ve used in other browsers?
I think I like it without any caveats. E.g. implementation of Workspaces in Edge is flawless imho, I can use the same workspaces everywhere (other than Edge being a problematic browser otherwise, you know why).
*What are the biggest frustrations you experience when trying to keep your different online activities separate and organized in your browser?
I use different browsers for that: each for different task (like streaming Netflix and stuff; another for work stuff and related research; another for shopping, etc.). With workspaces, I could use Brave for most if not all of these tasks.
*For what specific situations would you find it helpful to have separate “spaces” or “containers” within your browser?
Like above: work related stuff and research; shopping; daily browsing (for which I use Brave right now) and social media; streaming (Netflix and other streaming services); etc. - Why doesn’t the profile functionality work for you? You can have multiple profiles, each working as a clean slate for the browser in the practical sense.
Workspaces (like in Edge or Opera) automatically save all tabs, which helps me when I have to hard reboot the computer. Also, I can open a workspace on another computer which I cannot do with Brave sync. Additionally, you can have just one profile open at a given time, and you can have many workspaces open simultaneously. - What problems do you encounter when switching between different online accounts (e.g., multiple email accounts, social media profiles, work accounts)?
That’s the least problematic thing right now: I can have different accounts open in different tabs, so this isn’t my biggest issue. - What kind of information do you want to keep separate between these “spaces” (e.g., Browse history, cookies, logins, extensions, themes)?
I don’t want to keep any information separate, besides just a workspace itself (so a given group of tabs, their sequence, etc.). However, if I could use a different theme, or color accent (like in Edge), for a given workspace, that would be nice. - When separating different logins/sessions, is having them visible and accessible within the same browsing window important to you?
I open different accounts in different tabs, if I need. So, if that counts as the same browsing window, then yes. Otherwise, I use different browsers (or workspaces) for different tasks. - Are there any specific websites or web applications that you would always want to open in a particular “space” automatically?
Since a workspace opens a saved set/group of tabs, wouldn’t that open a specific website or websites automatically already?
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Thank you for expressing interest in implementing Multi-Account Containers to Brave and perhaps the broader Chromium community. This is great feature. One not really understood by many but loved by those who do and whose workflow is made more efficient by it.
Multi-Account Containers is a very powerful feature one best understood when experienced first-hand.
Multi-Account Containers creates different cookies-jars. This allows you, for example, to login to several accounts under the same website. For example. I can create 3 separate containers and login to 3 different gmail accounts. I can create 2 separate containers and loging to 2 different github accounts.
Many people use it to keep social networks truly separated. One containers for Twitter. 1 container for Facebook. Anther containers for BluSky, etc.
MAC features options that force domains to open in a given container. You can set youtube URLs to always open in a YouTube Container. You can have Amazon URLs always open in an Amazon container.
All of this happens within a single Profile. There is no need to be switching profiles.
To add to the level or privacy, security this adds to the user experience is the organization that comes at the tab level. Integrating MAC with workspaces, tabs grouping helps keep tabs and containers organized.
The best example I can give on this area is the way Sidebery [a firefox addon] handles containers.
With that said, by default on Firefox, all container tabs feature a colored line [color of user assigned to the containers in the moment of creation or the default set color for pre-existing containers]. On the address-bar at the right a colored icon and the name of the containers are displayed.
The lack of containers which are designed to keep cookies separated and unseen by other tabs which are using the main browser cookie-jar. The lack of MAC feature keeps me from being as efficient as I can be for I can’t do the things described above, like being able to logged into several github accounts under one single browser without the need to be switching profiles and all the running around that comes with using several browsers [normal windows and private windows], addons that promise to do what MAC does but in reality these rely on online services. MAC is built into the browser, all cookie handling is all done locally on the user’s machine.
This is one of the points that are better understood when experiencing MAC first-hand.
Handling several accounts for the same given website be it as simple as switching tabs does not get any better. Switching profiles in a cumbersome multi-step process that is far behind the efficiency and ease of use that MAC provides. One browser, one window, as many containers which open per tab. Need to access Account-A? Click the tab which is working with that Account-A container you setup. Need to access Account-B switch to that tab. Simple, easy to setup, easy to handle, easy to switch. All built-in, all handled locally.
The process can be tedious and time constraining. Today account require several layers of identification which can vary per company/client. MAC does away with this as you login as you should. Stay login as you work, switch between client accounts as needed per your workflow. No time lost loging out of an account to log into another over and over throughout the workday. MAC enhances workflow and time efficiency.
By design MAC as per Mozilla works with cookie-jars not profiles.
Talking workspace, for sure cookies as per MAC which by default will deal with logins.
Per my needs, the rest like browser history, themes, addons sounds more like different profiles. This would be nice to have.
The real missing link here is MAC itself. this is what makes true difference.
Yes. This is part of the ease to workflow MAC brings forth to user.
All of them. The beauty of MAC is that it works for any website as what it does is create different cookie-jar. Cookie-jars that will work for a tab or tabs if you set a domain to always open in said tab.
Again, this is better appreciated when experienced first-hand.
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