Firefox can create "containers" that isolate tabs. Think how when you open a private window, that website can't access the info from your standard window. (If you're logged into website A in your standard window, you won't be logged in when you open a private window)

However, using FF purely in private mode means the pages you visit don't get saved in your history (by design). This can be frustrating when trying to remember a URL you've visited before.

However, creating containers manually is a bit of a faff. The addon Temporary Containers gives you the best of both worlds. You can use FF like normal, but it reduces the tracking and tailoring of content that websites do nowadays.

I'm going to use youtube as an example. Youtube is a massive timesink (IMHO) that tailors its content to you even when not logged in. To demonstrate this:

1. Open a private window, look at the youtube homepage. It's full of mrbeast shite, of shite music. It's trying to get its tendrils into you. It's tempting you to begin your next youtube binge.

2. Watch/click around a video or two (tennis videos, for instance) and then go back to the homepage. It's changed. It's now full of shiny tennis mrbeast shite. It's trying to sap your attention. This will happen whether you're logged in to youtube or not, thanks to the cookies that get stored in your browser.

When you have this addon installed (and Automatic Mode enabled in the settings!), every new tab you open in a normal FF window is essentially like opening a new private window. To youtube it looks like a fresh install. They don't know who you are (pair it with a VPN to really mess with them- they can't even keep track of your IP address to attempt to suck your valuable attention by dangling shiny videos under your nose).

Now when you visit the youtube homepage it doesn't know who you are. The videos it recommends are such lowest-common-denominator that only 5-year-olds would be tempted to click on. Search for the video you want to watch, watch it, close the tab. Use youtube and don't BE USED by youtube.

The only thing that the addon impacts mildly is that you don't stay logged in on websites as it deletes the cookies for that tab when you close it. (I believe you can whitelist certain sites in the settings, but it doesn't bother me enough to set that up tbh)

So you might want to give the addon a go! It's one of my faves.

FIREFOX STAYS WINNING