Using containers for multiable identitys on websites

[lnee94]

How this would work.

• add option to select a set of containers to open a site in.
• when you go to example.com it should first open a landing page with an option set of which container to open in. (it should to have the option to use a list style or a grid style)
• Integration with password manager to set default login for a container. One way of doing this say add a data store where extensions can store anything in there (there would need to be a public for all extension and maby a private one too). and add a API that would allow extensions to set if a login shows as default. (NOTE this does not need to implemented for the other features to be useful it's just a nice to have)
• the ability to set the container icon to a data URI or a favicon.

What is the use case.
The main one I can think of is you have two accounts for one website loging out and loging in would suck and have to go to the extension is jank and out of the way so have a nice soft landing page for this perpus would make the usage experience for account hopping better then chrome.

[lnee94]

With this you could use the proxy containers extension to have the option to visit in tor or i2p or public

[lnee94]

Something that is also on the table is an option to not save history and an option to not save cookies (each option would not be linked, e.g. truth table would be 00 01 10 11) for a container

[kelimuttu]

Interesting! I can see how this can be useful for a heavy user of the multi-account-container feature. Maybe document this as a feature request?

[achernyakevich-sc]

@kelimuttu

It would be possible to achieve this if we will have implemented that we discuss in #2687 - user will need to add URL to some "default" container but do not confirm by ticking checkbox Remember my decision for this site. So every time he will be asked and will be able easily select container that should be used this particular time.

I think we could link discussions and move to that one.

[kelimuttu]

It seems that this one is more about bulk-action, though. I can imagine this is more useful for heavy-users with multiple accounts on a platform.

[NiklasBr]

more useful for heavy-users with multiple accounts on a platform.

It would help me, I have two accounts on BitBucket for two separate organisations:

• One accesses bitbucket.org/foo
• The other bitbucket.org/bar

Because the shared domain I cannot click the Remember my decision checkbox which is also very annoying because of how many tabs I need to open and close to work effectively. I ended up moving one org to another browser.

[kelimuttu]

@NiklasBr Makes total sense! Would you or @lnee94 open a new issue to document this as a feature request? Thanks!

[influential-eliot]

Not meaning to sound negative, as I think I'm very much for this idea ... but ... ... I think I already use MAC in this fashion with MAC + KeePassXC ... what am I missing that this provides already?

( given that it's not a good idea to keep passwords in any browser ... )

[achernyakevich-sc]

This is more about opening necessary container depending on the URL of services that support tenants/orgs and expose it in URL. For example GitHub:

• https://github.com/companyA/ - reference to GitHub organisation companyA that I need be logged in as UserA and would like to automatically open it in the container GitHubA.
• https://github.com/companyB/ - reference to GitHub organisation companyB that I need be logged in as UserB and would like to automatically open it in the container GitHubB.

AWS has similar but in the server name.

[aaribaud]

There is also the case of different containers, e.g. one for the admin user and one for a non-admin user, for exactly the same URL.