Containers in Brave are used to create separate storage areas for cookies and other site data. This isolates those tabs from other containers, allowing you to have multiple sessions of the same website open in the same browsing window. Users can leverage this functionality to run multiple accounts for the same site side-by-side without the need to open another browser profile or Private window, such as:

• Work and personal email
• Main and alternate social media accounts
• Admin and regular user accounts for web developers testing their website

There are many other use cases for containers and how you want to organize your websites and separate your browsing data is up to you. See the FAQ at the bottom of this page for more technical information on how containers function. 

Managing Containers

Containers can be managed in the browser by going to Settings > Content > Containers. Here you can create, edit and delete your containers:

The containers feature can be disabled entirely by toggling the Enable Containers option "off". Note that disabling containers will not delete or change any containers you've created or customized should you choose to re-enable them again.

The browser comes with four default Containers already created for common use cases. These default containers can be edited or removed entirely if you do not wish to use them. 

Creating new containers

To create a new Container in the browser, select the Add new container button in the containers settings menu. In the Add new container window, give your container a name, a color and an icon to associate to container with and click Save.

Your new container will appear in the list of containers, ready to use. Created containers can be edited any time by clicking the "pencil" icon next to the container entry and they can be deleted any time by clicking the "trash" icon.

Using Containers

Once your container(s) have been created, you can start opening tabs specific to the selected container. To do this, right-click on a tab, hover on Open in Container in the context menu, then select the container you would like to add the tab to:

This will open the tab in the container that you selected. Containers are denoted by the container icon appearing to the left of the tab in it, the container's color outlining the tab in it, and the name of the container displayed in the address bar:

You can also open a new blank tab in a container in this same way by right-clicking on the new tab icon. 

Temporary Containers

A temporary container, as it's name implies, is a container that has a limited lifespan.Unlike regular containers, a temporary container is automatically deleted once all of its tabs are closed and can no longer be restored, that is, once they are no longer accessible via Ctrl + Shift + T (tab restore) or session restore.  

Any data held in a temporary container (tabs, browsing data, login info, etc.) will be cleared once the current browsing session is closed. Until then container and all it's data persist -- even across browser restarts. This means tabs opened in a temporary container will remain if you close and reopen the browser, as long as those tabs remain open or restorable. 

Similarly, if a named container is deleted while tabs assigned to it are still open, those tabs continue to reference the container and its data until they are also closed and no longer restorable.

You can create a temporary container by right-clicking on a tab and selecting Open in Container > New Temporary Container from the context menu.

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