Firefox Multi-account Containers vs Podman

Firefox Multi-account Containers

Description: Firefox Multi-account Containers is a Firefox browser extension that allows you to segregate browser cookies, cache and other data by account or website. It helps prevent tracking, mixing of online identities and data leakage across accounts or websites.

Type: software

Pricing: Free

Podman

Description: Podman is an open source container engine that is designed to be an alternative to Docker. It allows users to run OCI-compliant Linux containers and build container images without relying on a daemon process like Docker does.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

Firefox Multi-account Containers Features

• Allows you to segregate browser cookies, cache and other data by account or website
• Lets you open multiple tabs/windows with different identities at the same time
• Easy to create new containers and assign sites to them
• Helps prevent tracking and mixing of online identities across accounts/websites

Podman Features

• Rootless containers - containers can run without root privileges for improved security
• Pod support - containers can be grouped into pods
• Seccomp support - restricts container system calls for hardening
• Bind mounts - bind mounts directories/files from host into container
• Network namespace support - each pod gets its own network namespace
• Image management - build, pull, push images to registries
• Remote clients - control Podman engines remotely
• Rootless SSH - access containers without being root

Firefox Multi-account Containers

• Free

Podman

• Open Source