Firefox comes with tab separation for work and private

Mozilla releases a feature in Firefox for ‘container tabs’. The containers have their own cookies, cache, indexedDB and localstorage, allowing users to log in with multiple Twitter accounts in different tabs, for example.

The tabs do share, among other things, the history, saved passwords and permissions, which distinguishes the function from, for example, browsing in incognito mode. Mozilla separates the tabs with a color cast at the top.

The separation of cache and cookies makes it possible to log in to multiple accounts, for example for work and private. In addition, Mozilla suggests, users can create a “shopping container” for anything related to online purchases. The retargeting ads with products that the user has searched for are therefore limited to that container.

The feature has appeared in the Nightly developer version. For now it is an experiment. There will be a test in the Test Pilot add-on this fall. The feature will appear in the stable version of the browser at the earliest after that.