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Half the point of asking questions in a public sub is so that everyone can benefit from the answers—which is impossible if you go deleting everything behind yourself once you've gotten yours.
My personal preference is to use another browser altogether, such as Brave or Vivaldi, and set it to delete everything upon close. I'm sure I'll get hate for the fact that Chromium is quite leaky.
If it's a mobile browser, you could use ffUpdater to download a separate instance of Firefox, but the Gecko framework on PC seems to loathe other Gecky framework instances.
Or, if you're super tinfoily, stick it inside a newly spun VM everytime!
@ImaginaryFox Why not use Private Mode instead?
I did try that, but found that it still remembered site info for accounts I was logged in until fully I closed everything related to the firefox browser. So containers has been easiest solution except for the process of manually creating and then deleting ones I didn't need anymore beyond the one session.
I had used Temporary Containers, but it hasn't been updated since February 8, 2021. Not actively monitored for security by Mozilla either so stopped using it. That addon was a perfect experience though for what I wanted.
The addon should still work but the creator passed away earlier this year:
https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/618
Oh that is really sad to hear. 😢
@ImaginaryFox I see. That's reasonable. I also had Temporary Containers in my head, but didn't suggest it as you wanted a native solution. Didn't even notice how old last update was! Unfortunately from my view and additional research, could not find a solution for you. It would be nice to have a "Open in New Temporary Container for Tab", that is managed temporarily and automatically deleted after closing tab.
I had used Temporary Containers, but it hasn't been updated since February 8, 2021. Not actively monitored for security by Mozilla either so stopped using it. That addon was a perfect experience though for what I wanted.
Code doesn't rot, so you can use the extension. Is it not fit for purpose? Are you aware of any security issues? What is the scope of impact if there IS an issue?
Code DOES rot, because the dependency you rely on stop being updated, oh btw this thing has a critical cve now, this isn't supported by the new addon API, ...
Why do you think I asked about known security issues? 🙂