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I've been using containers in test pilot for about a month and I love it. Google is separated from my news reading, is separated from my banking, is separated f

I've been using containers in test pilot for about a month and I love it. Google is separated from my news reading, is separated from my banking, is separated from my shopping, is separated from my leisure activity, is separated from my work activity. Once you set it up to aways open a site within a designated container it is all smooth. However, I wonder. What is the technical reason for not making it default to 1 container by site? Sure that would mean hundreds of containers...but does that pose performance problems?

Sylos 9y ago
> However, I wonder. What is the technical reason for not making it default to 1 container by site? Sure that would mean hundreds of containers...but does that pose performance problems? It would break some webpages. Also, yes, the vast majority of broken things will be tracking, but as a browser vendor you sort of need to not piss off webpage owners (which often benefit from tracking, directly or indirectly), as otherwise they'll stop testing their webpage against your browser. Also, as far as I understand things, Tor Browser actually has what essentially is a separate Container Tab per domain. It's described somewhat more precisely here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Containers#An_extended_origin https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...