New Update Brave is getting Container support and the feature has made a big jump recently

[lokamoka820]

Firefox fans have long heralded the browser’s Multi-Account Containers feature as an exclusive that users of Chromium-based browsers did not have. Soon, Brave Brower users may also make use of a Containers feature, ending Firefox’s exclusivity.

Brave has begun rolling out native Container support as an experimental flag in its desktop browser as of April 2026. It allows users of the browser to isolate web sessions better and even get options to open multiple accounts of the same site in a single browser window without using clunky workarounds or third-party extensions.

Brave is getting Container support and the feature has made a big jump recently - Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews

Firefox fans have long heralded the browser’s Multi-Account Containers feature as an exclusive that users of Chromium-based browsers did not have. Soon, Brave Brower users...

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[Parkinsond]

Is not using containers is the same as using multiple profiles?

 

[Victor M]

"Brave has begun rolling out native Container support as an experimental flag"

Does that mean that Brave has NO CONTAINERS ? After all these years of Chrome having comtainers ? Everybody RUN !

 

[cartaphilus]

Say what you want but I am yet to trust Brave and actually use it. I like to minimize my information whoring to just companies I honestly can't avoid. i.e. Edge (Microsoft), Chrome (Google) and Firefox. I have no need or desire to expose myself to yet another company that does nothing more than copy what Google does and slaps a lipstick on a pig. I see no benefit what so ever of using Brave for anything. Chrome and ublock is as powerful as the so called Brave browser without Brave company scrapping my browsing habits. No thank you. If it sounds too good to be true it always is.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Is not using containers is the same as using multiple profiles?

No it's different. You can create as many containers as you can in the same profile.

"Brave has begun rolling out native Container support as an experimental flag"

Does that mean that Brave has NO CONTAINERS ? After all these years of Chrome having comtainers ? Everybody RUN !

This container is not that container. Firefox's containers can contain your desired sites inside them, whose data like cookies will not be shared outside of the container. They are isolated. For example, you can have 5 MalwareTips accounts and have logged in all of them in the same browser, in the same profile if you create 5 separate containers.

 

[rashmi]

Is not using containers is the same as using multiple profiles?

Multiple Browsers > Profiles > Containers

 

[LinuxFan58]

@SeriousHoax I guess @Parkindsond meant that with multiple profiles, you can also achieve separation. The hierarchy posted by @rashmi shows how to achieve seperation & containment on different levels, but containers are a more granular and user friendly implementation (as below quote from AI shows, they are simular but different).

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[rashmi]

According to Gemini, Chromium lacks the native container architecture found in Firefox; Brave's implementation is almost certainly profile-based under the hood.

 

[Parkinsond]

According to Gemini, Chromium lacks the native container architecture found in Firefox; Brave's implementation is almost certainly profile-based under the hood.

Relabeling "profiling" as "container" for marketing purpose.

 

[LinuxFan58]

Well it will be different, but they need to use existing mechanisms. In the past the clearing of Shield settings did not work. After they fixed that bug, they introduced a quirk. The exception count seems to have a life of his own (increasing the count, even when I don't add websites)

When I reported another bug (Shield exception settings only working from the Shield icon, but seemingly unrelated to the setting in the profile), I got PM-ed that they would delay resolving that bug, because they had exiting better features in the pipeline (with the ambiton to combine the best of Chrome security with Firefox privacy). That was more than a year ago. So I think that @rashmi might have guessed right.

 

[Parkinsond]

Well it will be different, but they need to use existing mechanisms. In the past the clearing of Shield settings did not work. After they fixed that bug, they introduced a quirk. The exception count seems to have a life of his own (increasing the count, even when I don't add websites)
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When I reported another bug (Shield exception settings only working from the Shield icon, but seemingly unrelated to the setting in the profile), I got PM-ed that they would delay resolving that bug, because they had exiting better features in the pipeline (with the ambiton to combine the best of Chrome security with Firefox privacy). That was more than a year ago. So I think that @rashmi might have guessed right.

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I had a bug in Windows stable version; the down arrow in the top bar for showing recently closed tabs; when I click, brave crashes.
Installed both beta and nightly versions; no arrow, problem fixed.

 

[lokamoka820]

Relabeling "profiling" as "container" for marketing purpose.

To give you a basic example of the difference, let's say you want to sign in to five accounts on the same website at the same time. With profiles, you have to create five profiles in the browser, manage their settings from scratch, install your favorite extensions, etc., which will take up more disk space. With containers, you can accomplish the same thing by creating five containers in the same profile with the same settings and extensions, saving you the trouble of managing profiles. Additionally, browsing between tabs (in containers) is more convenient than switching between profiles.

 

[Parkinsond]

To give you a basic example of the difference, let's say you want to sign in to five accounts on the same website at the same time. With profiles, you have to create five profiles in the browser, manage their settings from scratch, install your favorite extensions, etc., which will take up more disk space. With containers, you can accomplish the same thing by creating five containers in the same profile with the same settings and extensions, saving you the trouble of managing profiles. Additionally, browsing between tabs (in containers) is more convenient than switching between profiles.

I cant sign in to two accounts using private window.

 

[rashmi]

...creating five containers in the same profile with the same settings and extensions, saving you the trouble of managing profiles.

For these reasons, profiles are less convenient but more private than containers.

 

[Sorrento]

Say what you want but I am yet to trust Brave and actually use it. I like to minimize my information whoring to just companies I honestly can't avoid. i.e. Edge (Microsoft), Chrome (Google) and Firefox. I have no need or desire to expose myself to yet another company that does nothing more than copy what Google does and slaps a lipstick on a pig. I see no benefit what so ever of using Brave for anything. Chrome and ublock is as powerful as the so called Brave browser without Brave company scrapping my browsing habits. No thank you. If it sounds too good to be true it always is.

I'm inclined now to agree with this position, after a recent install I virtually have one have way or another for Edge to be on, so along with Libre Wolf with uBlock i really see no reason to add Brave anymore, I used to for some time but I can no longer see an advantage, its a pain to set up with endless options you can de-bloat it which actually says lots IMHO, I can't see me using it in the near future, life has many choices ...

 

[LinuxFan58]

You are right about the need to configure Brave for first use. I remember I followed a guide (thread) at MT to debloat Brave nearly two years ago (forgot who posted it it and took me less than 15 minutes) and have not needed to update it much (only two cryptocurrency settings moved from flags to wesite permissions as far as I can recall).

I like Brave in Linux. I like to use Brave with AdBlocker disabled and run Privacy Badger (absolutely no loss of performance and never has broken a website). When I encounter advertisements on a website, I simply nuke it by enabling Brave in Agressive mode with brave's default lists, Adguard URL tracking protection, paywall blocker and Fanboy's (with uBo) annoyances filters).

 

[Miravi]

Relabeling "profiling" as "container" for marketing purpose.

No, not really. People have profusely requested the equivalent of Firefox Containers for some time. Isolating site data to contained tabs allows you to maintain multiple sessions even within the same window, and you can still take advantage of the browser profile you've built up: bookmarks, browsing history, extensions, etc.

Emulating the functionality of Firefox Containers is very difficult for a Chromium browser, because it doesn't have the same APIs or architectural support for the feature that Firefox does. It's been challenging enough that Brave has been working on it for almost a full year now, and it's still not fully shipped. Brave is going to be the first for a reason.

Meanwhile, opening different profiles in Chromium leads to significantly higher resource usage compared to simply opening more tabs like you would with containers. Chromium treats each profile as a completely independent entity with its own browser process, GPU process, network service, and storage service.

 

[cartaphilus]

I'm inclined now to agree with this position, after a recent install I virtually have one have way or another for Edge to be on, so along with Libre Wolf with uBlock i really see no reason to add Brave anymore, I used to for some time but I can no longer see an advantage, its a pain to set up with endless options you can de-bloat it which actually says lots IMHO, I can't see me using it in the near future, life has many choices ...

now you know why Satan was pissed; freedom of choice is an amzing thing.

 

[oldschool]

People have profusely requested the equivalent of Firefox Containers for some time.

It's probably been the #1 feature request for as long as Brave Community has existed.
Equivalent of Multi-Account Containers or Temporary Containers Extension (FF)