Tech question: Does Firefox has technical process seperation of tabs nowdays? This is one of the main features of Chrome since 1.0 and just want to know if Firefox has something similar finally.
Chrome groups multiple tabs into the same process.
Container Tabs
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
you could even just whitelist oauth/openid to work across all sites.
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#53I'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.
> And now we can have profiles and container tabs in those profiles
Yo Dawg!
We heard you like profiles, so we put profiles in your profiles so you can use profiles while you use profiles!
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#54I'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…
Just run "firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager" and here you go.
I'm sure Grandma and Joe SixPack will do that... Not everybody is tech savvy. I'd say the majority of FF users don't even know there's a profile manager.
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#55I'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 tried using container tabs with Nightly, but it just doesn't offer the full seperation that multiple profiles does. Having a different color on each tab with container tabs is nice, but not as obvious as being able to set entierly different themes as you can with seperate profiles.
I do think container tabs makes it easier for the everyday user to enjoy some of the benefits of seperation, though. Most people aren't goint to want to deal with settup up multiple profiles, choosing profiles, and all that jazz. This is certainly a cool feature for FF to add in.
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#56I'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…
It means you only have to do customization once. And you don't have to juggle multiple windows.
It has a lower bar of entry.
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#57I'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…
For years I have been wondering when there'd be an easy way to do run multiple profiles in Firefox.
At least in OSX I haven't figured out how to make an icon I can click that will open a specific profile and running the command from terminal leaves a termnial window open.
I know it is not hard, but it makes the multiple profile thing cumbersome enough for me to never have adopted it.
To answer your question directly: It is easy to use and integrated into the UI. It also works across tabs instead of just across windows.
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#58This is pretty awesome. Very useful.
My school's security is a joke. You cannot log out except by closing your browser. The session also never expires.
Not only that, but now they moved to a "single-sign on." If I sign in on one app, it signs me in for all apps.
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#59I am a Mozilla supporter and FF is my "daily driver" browser. Very interested in this feature. Chrome has had it for a years, and it's a killer feature for many developers. It's very very useful to have multiple browser windows open, each logged into the same site as a different user. A lot of people do this by opening multiple browsers (FF, Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc) but that has its limits and it just adds another…
How do I use it in Chrome or is it in Chrome per user session rather than per tab?
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#60I 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…
As someone else intimated, isn't that just disabling 3rd party cookies, which has been a browser feature for ages?