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Re: Container Tabs

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Post by sirn »

edgartaor wrote: post #64
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/

Thanks for the suggestion, although I'm already using uMatrix :-)

SDC + uMatrix do make a really great combination, and I'm really glad I use these extensions when I see some sites loading 10+ trackers that are not relevant to site's function at all.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by echelon »

x1798DE wrote: post #80

Right now, what I'm doing is that all my standard browsing happens on Firefox, with uMatrix blocking JS and just generally locked down. For anything where I want to log in or have a persistent identity (stackoverflow, gmail, etc), I set up separate Chrome profiles and manually open each site in the appropriate profile. Honestly, this whole thing is a bit of a pain - my ideal solution would be one where I can set up "…

Context based on domains sounds like a perfect and elegant solution. I hope someone from Mozilla is reading this.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by _dark_matter_ »

echelon wrote: post #82
x1798DE wrote: post #80

Right now, what I'm doing is that all my standard browsing happens on Firefox, with uMatrix blocking JS and just generally locked down. For anything where I want to log in or have a persistent identity (stackoverflow, gmail, etc), I set up separate Chrome profiles and manually open each site in the appropriate profile. Honestly, this whole thing is a bit of a pain - my ideal solution would be one where I can set up "…

Context based on domains sounds like a perfect and elegant solution. I hope someone from Mozilla is reading this.

I'm pretty sure about 90% of us Mozilla engineers are on hacker news :)

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by icebraining »

JohnBooty wrote: post #22

I 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…

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 variable my poor brain would prefer not to handle.

Firefox has had this since, well, forever; they're called "profiles". I run two windows with different profiles (for "personal" and "work"), each with different install addons, Sync accounts, etc. Unfortunately the UI is clunky (requires adding a couple of flags to the shortcut/command).

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by hosh »

Cool. I had been using multifox plugin for testing websites, but it won't work with the new multiprocess engine and the plugin author had no intention of porting it. Glad to see an alternative.

I use Firefox for testing my dev work but reading about the privacy use-case, I might seriously consider switching from Chrome as my main browser.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by hosh »

chrisper wrote: post #59
JohnBooty wrote: post #22

I 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?

When I went looking for a per-tab profile, I did not see this in either Chrome or Firefox. Firefox has the Multifox addon that does this per-tab, but it is incompatible with the multiprocess feature.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by hosh »

fragmede wrote: post #48
parasubcutaneor wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't think those profiles let you do things per-tab.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by SonicSoul »

x1798DE wrote: post #80

Right now, what I'm doing is that all my standard browsing happens on Firefox, with uMatrix blocking JS and just generally locked down. For anything where I want to log in or have a persistent identity (stackoverflow, gmail, etc), I set up separate Chrome profiles and manually open each site in the appropriate profile. Honestly, this whole thing is a bit of a pain - my ideal solution would be one where I can set up "…

hmm so you can log into multiple profiles at once in chrome and have them run under separate session spaces?

i found that i can have on session space in regular chrome and one more in incognito, but all tabs in incognito seem to share that same session. i.e. opening a new tab automatically shares the same session as the other tabs in x domain. Maybe there is a way to control this behavior?

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by newscracker »

This is really awesome!!! I used to manage this kind of separation by using private windows and using different browsers. I don't really want to manage these by window or create user profiles, as may be the case in other browsers.

Re: Container Tabs

#90

Post by jakobegger »

alkonaut wrote: post #37
jakobegger wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is when site1.com is Twitter, and site2.com includes a Twitter button, then Twitter can see that you are browsing site2.com

Ok - I'm happy to break all such functionality by refusing the use of those cookies. I'm almost sure Ghostery already does this. Is there no legit/useful use for this (I don't count fb auth or like/tweet buttons)?

Ghostery blocks specific well known trackers. An approach like Container Tabs would prevent these types of tracking in principle.

Valid use for 3rd party cookies is something like single sign on. (Eg. sign into all Google services at the same time, even though they use separate domains)

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