Essentially, the Containers feature allows you to keep parts of your online experience separated into color-coded tabs that help to preserve your privacy by separating cookies by container. Also: No browser is perfect. What’s a user to do? Once upon a time the feature was added to Firefox by way of an extension. Since then, however, it has been baked into the browser. I’m going to show you how to enable and use Containers and Container Tabs in Firefox.
Requirements
The only thing you’ll need for this is an updated version of the Firefox web browser. That’s it. Let’s make Firefox even better.
Enabling Firefox container tabs
How to use Container Tabs
Using Container Tabs is quite simple. Since we created a Container named Social Networks, I’ll demonstrate by creating a Container Tab for social network sites. Open a new tab and go to Twitter. Once the site loads, right-click the tab and select Open in New Container Tab > Social Networks. The tab will reopen and you’ll see a line above the tab that’s the same color you associated with the Social Networks Container Tab. You might find that, in doing this, you’ll have to log back in to Twitter. At this point, the Twitter tab will be isolated to the Social Networks Container Tab group and will not be able to share information from any tab outside of that group. And that’s all there is to enabling and using Firefox’s Containers and Container Tabs. Anyone who wants to add an extra layer of security and privacy to their browsing experience should seriously consider using this feature.
