Articles by Jonathan Kingston
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An overview of Containers for add-on developers
Containers work by giving users the ability to place barriers on the flow of data across sites by isolating cookies, indexedDB, localStorage, and caches within discrete browsing contexts. This in-depth introduction to Containers and Container extensions explores the capabilities of Containers and contextual identity for developers.
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Containers Come to Test Pilot
The Containers feature in Firefox Nightly gives users the ability to place barriers on the flow of data across sites by isolating cookies, indexedDB, localStorage, and caches within discrete browsing contexts. After running the Containers UI through successive rounds of user research and UX iteration, we’ve launched a Containers experiment in Firefox Test Pilot in order to widen the audience for Containers, iterate on the UI, and reason about the future of the feature.
