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Re: Container Tabs

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Post by zapu »

scrollaway wrote: post #10
grenoire wrote: post #4

I 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…

Oh wow, didn't even know about that in Chrome. Thanks.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by arthurfm »

richardboegli wrote: post #18
altano wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome actually already has this feature in the form of profiles. See the top-right icon.

Yes it does and I have been using this. But it seems to be per window not tab. Unless I've missed something?

> it seems to be per window not tab

Chromium-based Ghost Browser [1] can do it per tab or tab group.

It would be nice if Google implemented the same feature into Chrome since multiple profiles can be a hassle.

[1] https://ghostbrowser.com

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by chrisper »

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?

Wasn't there an attack that if you go to web.xyz, there was an embedded link that led to http://192.168.1.100/reset which reset your modem. In this case it would work either way because there is no authentication. However, if the modem required an authentication and you are logged in in one tab, then going to that website in a different other tab would still work.

I don't think this would work if you use the container tabs.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by edgartaor »

sirn wrote: post #8

This 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…

You may want to try uMatrix[1]. It block any 3rd party content by default (cookies, scripts,...) . So Twitter buttons (and similar) do not load by default, but you can allow it with two clicks.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by wolrah »

remir wrote: post #54
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…

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.

Reminder of the thing it's being compared to:

> The containers feature is enabled in Firefox Nightly 50 by default with the about:config pref `privacy.userContext.enabled` set to true.

Grandma and Joe SixPack aren't running Firefox Nightly with about:config tweaks either.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by diafygi »

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?

Nitpick: OAuth doesn't require cookies. You can track someone through the state parameter in the redirect url.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by cornstalks »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #60
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…

As someone else intimated, isn't that just disabling 3rd party cookies, which has been a browser feature for ages?

No, because when you disable 3rd party cookies, then www.evilcorp.org can't even set its cookie on www.a.org.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by smaddox »

wodenokoto wrote: post #57
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…

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:…

Command+Space >> "automator" Enter >> Choose "Application" >> search for "shell" and double click "Run Shell Script" >> type "/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager" into the shell script box >> Command+S to save the app as whatever you would like

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by jbverschoor »

I'm long searching for a solution to do this is a much broader way.. On the OS level.

Private Work A Work B Work C

Ideally it would seem like a different user. (Filesystem, cmd-tab). But easily accessible like the three finger swipe. Fast user switching doesn't cut it.

I even tried logging in on my local machine using VNC or remove desktop.. Is having 4 VMs the only way?

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