Container Tabs
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Container Tabs
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#2As a user, I actually just want my browser to contain less features. Vendors add and add and add features. If I want different user profiles, I already have many users on my OS - I just switch between them.
When Chrome came out, I and many others switched to it just because it was lacking so many features. It was great!
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#3As a user, I actually just want my browser to contain less features. Vendors add and add and add features. If I want different user profiles, I already have many users on my OS - I just switch between them. When Chrome came out, I and many others switched to it just because it was lacking so many features. It was great!
Having features is fine imo, as long as they can be disabled.
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#4I would love this feature and it would actually get me to switch to Firefox in a heartbeat. I'm currently using Chrome just because of the the (subjectively) better developer tools, but this is a feature that would make my life so much easier!
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#5Lack of history separation seems quite pitty to me imo :-/
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#6As a user, I actually just want my browser to contain less features. Vendors add and add and add features. If I want different user profiles, I already have many users on my OS - I just switch between them. When Chrome came out, I and many others switched to it just because it was lacking so many features. It was great!
So then use a browser whose stated goal is to be minimal. Container tabs are an amazing addition with great security and privacy benefits. If you think changing OS user profiles is comparable, you either don't fully understand the concept or you are way outside of the demographic of people that will use this.
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#7why isn't "Saved Passwords" and "Saved Search and Form data" separated between containers?
There have been autofill/form-data attacks in the past[0] and there was a story recently on HN's front page showing the same[1].
I'd like to point out that mozilla already has a configuration option to disable form data saving on https sites, 'browser.formfill.saveHttpsForms'. Why?[2]
> Right; the idea is to eliminate "opportunism". If my laptop is stolen, Firefox's current behavior makes it easy for a thief to find a https: site in my history, go to it, check out, and then just let autocomplete hand them my complete credit card details.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12171547 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13329525 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252486
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#8This looks amazing!
I have been using Self-Destructing Cookies[1] for few years and while I think the extension is great, I always feel there's not enough isolation between tabs. For example, if I have Twitter logged in in one tab, and other tab contain Twitter button, then the other tab can still have access to my Twitter cookie. (Because Twitter tab is still active, so SDC would not destroy the cookie.) I know this is solvable using tracker blocker, but something like SDC but worked on tab container level would be very welcomed.
(Other side effect of using SDC is I seems to get the harder ReCAPTCHA that make you click an object until all of it disappear, with new ones popping up after clicking. Usually took about 5-10 clicks. Very annoying.)
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...
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#9As a user, I actually just want my browser to contain less features. Vendors add and add and add features. If I want different user profiles, I already have many users on my OS - I just switch between them. When Chrome came out, I and many others switched to it just because it was lacking so many features. It was great!
Chrome actually already has this feature in the form of profiles. See the top-right icon.
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#10I would love this feature and it would actually get me to switch to Firefox in a heartbeat. I'm currently using Chrome just because of the the (subjectively) better developer tools, but this is a feature that would make my life so much easier!
Firefox tab management is lackluster compared to Chrome; container tabs won't change that :/
Every time I try using Firefox I pretty quickly hit the limitation on selecting tabs. Chrome lets you select tabs like files in a file manager: Shift click for ranges, ctrl+click for adding/removing single tabs. You can then drag & drop the group in or out of various windows, close all at once, etc.
Container tabs imho won't be usable unless something like this is in place. When dealing with as few as 5+ tabs, I certainly wouldn't want to manually tweak them one at a time. Can't imagine for 20+, 50+.
But the idea is nice for feature separation, I like that a lot.