This compelling new feature just landed in Brave and Firefox

If you aren't a privacy nerd then you might have missed this exciting new development in the world of web browsing! Containers have landed in Firefox and Brave and I'm pretty stoked for it.The question is, what are Containers? How do they work? And how can you use them to use the web more efficiently – and perhaps even more privately?What is a Browser Session?Containers are a way of separating your Browser Sessions into, well, containers. To really grasp how these work, though, it's important to understand what a Browser Session actually is.Browser Sessions are comprised of a suite of core web technologies. Things like cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, and IndexDB are a few of the most common features that make up a session. Each contributing their own ways of remembering the state of a website.At its most basic, when you visit a website it will tell your browser to store a unique cookie. That cookie is how the site remembers your specific shopping cart, how it remembers that…