Sidebar Account Isolation or Container Support

[jrichca]

Currently, the sidebar allows account access and switching (tested with ChatGPT), and changing the account in the sidebar also changes the account logged into ChatGPT in my main browser tabs.

This presents a problem for users like me who rely on Firefox Containers to manage multiple accounts. My typical setup is:

• Default (non-container) environment: Logged into my work/school account.

• Personal container: Used for casual conversations, silly questions, and random chats.

The issue is that the sidebar is not container-aware. When I log into my personal account via the sidebar, it also overrides the account in my non-container tabs—disrupting the separation I rely on.

Proposed solutions:

1. Enable Firefox Container support in the sidebar, so users can assign container contexts to the sidebar session.

2. Isolate sidebar authentication from main tab sessions, allowing sidebar usage to remain independent regardless of tab logins.

Either of these changes would greatly improve the experience for users who juggle multiple accounts and rely on containers for clean separation.

[Jon]

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[shuko]

It's troublesome for people who assign the chatbot website into a specific container to have the sidebar directly use the cookie and other information from the default container. I hope the sidebar can also select containers or be unified with multiple containers.

[00sapo]

Hey, yes, I agree. I have a container for using gemini with a google account dedicated only to that. If I log into that account with the main browser container, the "privacy" of that account will be definitely impacted.