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Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

red_admiral wrote: post #27

This could not be more welcome at a time when facebook (UK) is displaying a new bar across the top of its page saying that by using it, I agree: "By clicking or navigating the site, you agree to allow our collection of information on and off Facebook through cookies." I already have a separate chromium "person" set up for facebook; might give firefox another go when this gets released.

How is this even legal? By clicking to that site, i'm agreeing to allow FB to do whatever ONCE. How do I get out of the agreement if I find it doesn't suit me?

This is like saying, "By agreeing to take this person on a date one time, you're agreeing to take this person with you wherever you go from now until whenever."

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by sp332 »

BugsBunnySan wrote: post #67
tajen wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

..."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...

You can edit your shortcut or .desktop file to open "firefox -P" instead of "firefox". Each time you click it, it will ask which profile you want the new window to be in.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by spiderfarmer »

k__ wrote: post #66
ronjouch wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Still happens, I saw it happen the day before yesterday. I kind of like the fact that the title on HN is specific and to the point.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by lucb1e »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #5
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.

Exactly. An account as lucb1e, a professional account, one dedicated tweeting blog posts on my website... It takes some juggling sometimes.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

bjacobel wrote: post #37
red_admiral wrote: post #27

This could not be more welcome at a time when facebook (UK) is displaying a new bar across the top of its page saying that by using it, I agree: "By clicking or navigating the site, you agree to allow our collection of information on and off Facebook through cookies." I already have a separate chromium "person" set up for facebook; might give firefox another go when this gets released.

I don't mean to tell people how they should and shouldn't use the web, but if you disagree with Facebook's off-platform data-collection practices, consider sending them a message about it and closing your account. They have no reason to change their policies unless we give them concrete evidence that it will hurt their business.

One person in a billion closing their FB account over privacy concerns probably isn't going to sway them. You'd have a better chance of making them realize that a sizable number of users care about such things by organizing a petition or a mass-closing event.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by spiderfarmer »

lucb1e wrote: post #64

This 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!

I know a lot of people that use multiple browsers (IE, Chrome, FF) to achieve the same effect. Especially in internet marketing, where you constantly switch between Google accounts it's something that's very useful.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by lucb1e »

sp332 wrote: post #72
BugsBunnySan wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

You can edit your shortcut or .desktop file to open "firefox -P" instead of "firefox". Each time you click it, it will ask which profile you want the new window to be in.

Had I known this earlier... I had the same reaction as the person you replied to, I hadn't thought of using profiles. I knew something called profiles existed, but I thought it was not in use anymore (at least not properly supported). I never connected the dots.

Still sounds like a pain to manage though, compared to this new feature.

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by Sylos »

skybrian wrote: post #54

I'm pretty happy with Chrome's support for multiple profiles in separate windows - for example I have one for work and one just for Facebook. I wonder why Firefox is using tabs? What other differences are there between these approaches?

Well, because some users will prefer to use them in tabs. If you rather want separate windows, then you can put those tabs into different windows yourself. No need to limit what users can choose to do...

Re: Contextual Identities on the Web

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Post by BugsBunnySan »

sp332 wrote: post #72
BugsBunnySan wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

You can edit your shortcut or .desktop file to open "firefox -P" instead of "firefox". Each time you click it, it will ask which profile you want the new window to be in.

oh, ok, that is pretty usefull actually!
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