# Microsoft Container

> This add-on is an unofficial fork of Mozilla's Facebook Container designed for Microsoft. Microsoft Container isolates your Microsoft activity from the rest of your web activity and prevent Microsoft from tracking you outside of the its website.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/microsoft-container](https://chrome-stats.com/d/microsoft-container)

## Overview

- **ID:** `microsoft-container`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** The GodFather
- **Category:** privacy-security,tabs
- **Daily users:** 161
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 2.25 / 5 (4 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **Last updated:** 2021-01-19
- **First published:** 2019-07-01
- **Size:** 18 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/microsoft-container/)

## Description

Microsoft Container is a privacy-focused Chrome extension designed to isolate your Microsoft web activities from other browsing tasks, preventing Microsoft from tracking you across different websites. Modeled as an unofficial fork of Mozilla's renowned Facebook Container, this extension ensures that your interactions within Microsoft domains are contained, enhancing your online privacy.

Please note that this project has been discontinued and is no longer maintained. It is not affiliated with Mozilla and may conflict with other container add-ons such as Git container. Users are encouraged to leave feedback and submit additional Microsoft-owned domains for consideration via GitHub.

## Rankings

- #9,253 — Overall
- #3 — minecrosoft
- #21 — microsoft
- #53 — contain
- #70 — contact
- #99 — submit

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `contextualIdentities`
- `cookies`
- `management`
- `tabs`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `webRequest`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/microsoft-container)