In the Lab: Brave Temporary Containers and Traffic Control

As the saying goes, "Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans." We were in the middle of writing a couple of other posts when Brave dropped a new beta feature yesterday and pulled us off course. Mix that with a feature that already shipped and barely got talked about, and you get a pretty nice upgrade to how Brave works day to day. Brave added native Containers in version 1.92, which landed on July 2, 2026. We have been testing them since April 2026. They keep storage separated inside the same profile, so you can be logged into the same service with two different accounts in two different tabs. No private window. No second profile. It all stays in the same browser window. One piece that came along with Containers, and that a lot of people skip past, is New Temporary Container. It opens a tab whose site data is meant to be thrown away. It feels a bit like a private window, but it is not the same, and it stays inside your normal browsing setup. Useful for sites that tend…