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Re: Container Tabs

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Post by jolux »

vosper wrote: post #104
nikcub wrote: post #94

This is a neat idea but it doesn't implement the main reason I use separate profiles in Chromium - different security contexts based on how much you trust a site. Example: my main general browsing profile has flash, PDFs and all plugins disabled, absolutely all handlers switched off, all hardware access off, WebGL switched off, no account logins and uBlock Origin set to aggressively block most third-party requests. M…

I'm genuinely not trolling here: what are you worried could happen if you didn't do all of this stuff with the extensions and settings in your various profiles? What does it mean to trust a website?

I turn all of those Chrome features off everywhere anyways. I find the handlers to be especially annoying. Why the fuck would I want that? There's a reason I use Mail.app and it's not because I love using email in web views.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by znpy »

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:…

Is it really this difficult to create a custom launcher?

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by vertebrate »

x1798DE wrote: post #105
wtbob wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. FWIW, this is also doable in Firefox: try 'firefox --new-instance -ProfileManager'; you can also directly open up a new profile from the command line (and hence do the same from scripts, desktop entries, or whatever else your platfor…

Yeah, I know it can be done, I use Chrome because it's more convenient to click the profile icon and pop up the new profile in a new window. In my experience with Firefox profile switching it's always been a much more involved process than the two-click Chrome process.

try this, as simple as in chrome https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by cpeterso »

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…

Firefox is integrating a cookie feature from Tor called first-party isolation or double-key cookies. It will separate third-party cookies for each first-party site, so evilcorp.org cookies for evilcorp.org images on a.org will not be set for evilcorp.org images on a.org. Blocking third-party cookies can break some site that rely on third-party resources, but first-party isolation should allow each site to work without cookie "crosstalk".

You can test first-party isolation now by flipping the about:config pref "privacy.firstparty.isolate" to true. Beware that there are still bugs that break some sites, which is why the feature is not enabled by default yet. If you find bugs, please report them in Bugzilla! Here is the Firefox bug tracking the integration and known bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299996

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by raimue »

Nice to see this integrated natively. I was using MultiFox before to get this functionality. For example, this allows me to manage multiple twitter accounts, without logging out and back in all the time.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by gcb0 »

nikcub wrote: post #94

This is a neat idea but it doesn't implement the main reason I use separate profiles in Chromium - different security contexts based on how much you trust a site. Example: my main general browsing profile has flash, PDFs and all plugins disabled, absolutely all handlers switched off, all hardware access off, WebGL switched off, no account logins and uBlock Origin set to aggressively block most third-party requests. M…

you are using the wrong tool.

install NoScript in firefox and allow flash/etc per domain temporarily or permanently.

profiles/context tab is all about tracking. You just happen to successfully abuse one tool to your ends in one case.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by gcb0 »

cpeterso wrote: post #114
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…

Firefox is integrating a cookie feature from Tor called first-party isolation or double-key cookies. It will separate third-party cookies for each first-party site, so evilcorp.org cookies for evilcorp.org images on a.org will not be set for evilcorp.org images on a.org. Blocking third-party cookies can break some site that rely on third-party resources, but first-party isolation should allow each site to work withou…

best thing that happened to mozilla was losing the money from google. yahoo pays them almost the same and does not meddle on anti tracking features.

note how every single privacy feature came after google-money. during google-money what did we got? third party cookies accepted as default.

good riddance, google.

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