Vote-brigading and trolling have never been so easy! All sarcasm aside, it is a great feature.
Agreed.
Contextual Identities on the Web
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#62Vote-brigading and trolling have never been so easy! All sarcasm aside, it is a great feature.
Great post!
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#63I solved this so far by using two different browsers. But this is cumbersome and Mozilla now makes sure that I only use their product. This is good, because I like Firefox.
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#64This is fantastic! I've been wanting this for a few years, but didn't think anyone else would care enough to get this on a browser's todo list. Awesome to see Mozilla doing this!
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#65I think this is fantastic. In hindsight, it is a no-brainer. Good for mozilla and hoping the others will catch up
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I cant speak for dang but the guidelines make it pretty clear that you should use the original title: is https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Alright, thanks for pointing to them. - This guideline feels a wee bit sad, because editorializing can be valuable (a title might be crystal clear in context but nonsensical once pulled out of it). - But I understand how we generally don't want it as it might lead to linkbaiting and misrepresenting the original title.
Also, didn't they change some titels to less click-baity titles in the past?
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#67Omg, finally this exists :D I think this is the actual solution to the problem that 'private browsing' was trying to fix when it first came out.
..."Firefox profiles" fixed it very well. Same as Chrome profiles: I have one for my work persona, one for my personal persona, another for my sysadmin persona, and 3 others for... er... nevermind. But it works great. Besides, 11 FAQ and a long blog post: I'm not sure they narrowed down the most focussed feature that would provide the most value and be used by the most number of users.
Yeah, but afaik, switching those profiles in Firefox is (currently) really difficult. So much so that it almost feels the same as if you didn't have the capability to do it...
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#68Perhaps they should have called it something other than containers? Or is the term a buzzword these days for anything that separates A from B?
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#69If we can get Tor Browser's first party origin feature in as well, this will be fantastic! I would love to have the ability to type www.facebook.com and get a context that isn't linked to the rest of my tabs. I also want ephemeral containers so I could open a tab that forgets its cookies when I'm done. Think private browsing but without forgetting my history, requiring a new window, or being limited to one context at…
Did you try the "Self destructing cookies"[1] extension for Firefox? It is close to your "forgets cookies" requirement. IIRC it has per domain settings and allows you to configure the cookies to self destruct after closing the tab, the browser or never. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...
I use this and am very satisfied with it. It's a very simple thing that anyone (that knows how cookies work) can fully understand within seconds and it prevents many, many sorts of tracking. A password manager is a must, of course.
Every time I use someone else's computer now, I'm horrified to see my settings from last time on random sites. You don't realize how much tracking is done until it's not the standard anymore. I even forgot to log out of places, so I've defaulted to opening private windows instead.
Anyway back in topic, SDC helps a lot but doesn't do everything OP wanted to do. I too would like to be able to open Facebook without wondering what other openings tabs might be using it, preventing SDC from removing the cookies. I'm really really excited Mozilla is doing this. SDC is a good start until it's out of nightly/beta though.
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#70Firefox's clumsy profile support is the one thing that makes me keep switching back to chrome. I really prefer firefox sync to chrome's implementation, and some of firefox's tab organization tools are way better than chrome's. But I use many of the same webapps in my personal life as I do in my work life, and being able to run two profiles simultaneously, and start them up without having to launch firefox from the te…
I agree that Firefox profile management is not user-friendly at all. I have an advice for you though, you don't need to open Firefox from a terminal if you want to be able to choose your profile at start-up.
«all» you have to do is go to ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile.ini and change it with:
```
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0
```
Now Firefox will open a dialogue box at start-up asking you for the profile you want to use.