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Re: Container Tabs

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Post by giancarlostoro »

thewisenerd wrote: post #7

why 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 "opportun…

I also wish it was toggable to make history dependant on a container. My personal history will likely grow and have too much garbage, it would be nice to wipe it and have it not affect my work container.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by oftenwrong »

rlpb wrote: post #39

I would like to be able to configure my browser to open every URL in a domain-specific "container", unless I say otherwise. Say site www.a.org includes an image from www.evilcorp.org, and www.evilcorp.org sets a cookie. When I then go to www.b.org and it includes an image from www.evilcorp.org, I don't expect the cookie to be sent back. In other words, the cookie should be tied to www.a.org, even though it actually c…

I generally disable third party cookies. Causes very few problems ime.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by giancarlostoro »

znpy wrote: post #35

I've been doing this for years using both Firefox' and Thunderbird's multiple-profile features. Just run "firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager" and here you go. So the serious question is: how is this any different from using multiple profile? Multiple profile also have the pro/con that they are actual different processes, so there's no information leak between profiles whatsoever (well, unless some serious hacking ha…

I was using ParrotSec OS for a few months and it had this as the default for opening Firefox, it would prompt you to ask which profile you wanted to use, it was somewhat handy. Firefox can be set to always open the profile manager on startup by default. But what they're saying now is per tab vs per window.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by parasubcutaneor »

dingo_bat wrote: post #29
rcthompson wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit: I guess I'm misremembering how Chrome works, or maybe they changed it since I've last used Chrome seriously. I'll leave the comment so the replies make sense. Original comment: I'm kind of surprised that Mozilla went with a per-tab approach here, since they went with per-window for private browsing (while Chrome did the opposite: per-tab private browsing and per-window profiles).

That's not right. Chrome's incognito mode is per window.

Not even. Chome's session isolation is only per each of the two browsing modes.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by rlpb »

chii wrote: post #40
rlpb wrote: post #39

I would like to be able to configure my browser to open every URL in a domain-specific "container", unless I say otherwise. Say site www.a.org includes an image from www.evilcorp.org, and www.evilcorp.org sets a cookie. When I then go to www.b.org and it includes an image from www.evilcorp.org, I don't expect the cookie to be sent back. In other words, the cookie should be tied to www.a.org, even though it actually c…

how would you do oauth (or openid style login) with this then?

I would be happy to whitelist the sites with which I use oauth/openid to log in. If I didn't, it would still work; I'd just have to reauthenticate once for every site.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by guipsp »

alkonaut wrote: post #26

Why do I even need this? Isn't it by default so that site1.com can't see cookies from site2.com for example?

The behaviour that you describe is default in all browsers. This is more that the same site can't access it's own cookies if the user doesn't want it to.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by nmy »

This is why I'm using Firefox nightly. It is a killer feature to keep open my many AWS and GCP accounts (one container per client). It still needs to be polished though.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by fragmede »

parasubcutaneor wrote: post #44
dingo_bat wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not right. Chrome's incognito mode is per window.

Not even. Chome's session isolation is only per each of the two browsing modes.

Chrome supports multiple profiles (click the person icon or username on the upper right), not just logged and incognito.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by kayoone »

lucideer wrote: post #31
rcthompson wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit: I guess I'm misremembering how Chrome works, or maybe they changed it since I've last used Chrome seriously. I'll leave the comment so the replies make sense. Original comment: I'm kind of surprised that Mozilla went with a per-tab approach here, since they went with per-window for private browsing (while Chrome did the opposite: per-tab private browsing and per-window profiles).

I might be remembering wrong, but I'm pretty sure Chrome started with per-window private browsing before eventually upgrading to per-tab. So Firefox seems to be just jumping ahead of that initial limitation from the start here.

how does per tab incognito work in chrome ? I can only find per window (which i assumed was the only way to do it)

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by drinkjuice »

znpy wrote: post #35

I've been doing this for years using both Firefox' and Thunderbird's multiple-profile features. Just run "firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager" and here you go. So the serious question is: how is this any different from using multiple profile? Multiple profile also have the pro/con that they are actual different processes, so there's no information leak between profiles whatsoever (well, unless some serious hacking ha…

+1, and I would like to add:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/change-window-ic...

To answer your question, it's probably quicker and takes up less HD space :) And now we can have profiles and container tabs in those profiles, or just use profiles or just use container tabs, how cool is that.

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