Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by ronjouch » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 12:35 PM UTC

Contextual Identities on the Web
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Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by azeirah » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 1:59 PM UTC

Oh that sure does seem really useful :o

I hope they keep going into this direction

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 2:14 PM UTC

That looks neat. And if it were possible to cheaply create and delete contextual identities on the fly it would even fix an issue I had today: the difficulty of multiple separate private browsing sessions in the same browser.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by ScaryRacoon » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 2:20 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #3

That looks neat. And if it were possible to cheaply create and delete contextual identities on the fly it would even fix an issue I had today: the difficulty of multiple separate private browsing sessions in the same browser.

I would argue that this should be the default behavior for a private tab.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 2:21 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #3

That looks neat. And if it were possible to cheaply create and delete contextual identities on the fly it would even fix an issue I had today: the difficulty of multiple separate private browsing sessions in the same browser.

This is an issue for me, primarily for using Twitter. I sometimes want to use multiple Twitter accounts at once, and not via TweetDeck. What I end up doing is having one account in use on normal Firefox, one in Firefox private browsing, one in Chrome private browsing, one in Safari private browsing, etc.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 2:21 PM UTC

ScaryRacoon wrote: post #4

masklinn wrote: post #3

That looks neat. And if it were possible to cheaply create and delete contextual identities on the fly it would even fix an issue I had today: the difficulty of multiple separate private browsing sessions in the same browser.

I would argue that this should be the default behavior for a private tab.

It seems to be so in Safari.

This can be unhelpful, though, if you need to have multiple tabs open on the same site.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by dubcanada » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 2:27 PM UTC

This actually looks awesome.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 2:27 PM UTC

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Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by arenaninja » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 2:30 PM UTC

Very cool feature! I remember a friend of mine having a use for this as far back as 8 years ago. I hope you're happy now Richard!

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by nickysielicki » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 2:30 PM UTC

This so closely resembles the way that Qubes uses colors to identify your VMs [1] that I'm surprise they didn't get a mention in the post.

It's a really simple idea that can go a long way for digital identity hygiene. Can't wait to try it out.

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[1] Screenshot of Qubes: https://www.qubes-os.org/attachment/wiki/QubesScreenshots/r2...