# Contextual Identities

## What it does

Lists existing identities, lets you create new tabs with an identity and remove all tabs from an identity. For more information on contextual identities: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Containers

## What it shows

How to use the contextualIdentities API. Please note: you must have contextualIdentities enabled. You can do that by going to about:config and setting the `privacy.userContext.enabled` preference to true. If you are using web-ext you can do this by running:

web-ext run --pref privacy.userContext.enabled=true

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