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Re: Container Tabs

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Post by Manishearth »

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…

Firefox has had multiple profiles for years too, though the UI isn't as nice as Chrome's. This is different, this is basically profiles that can sharethe same browser window.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by homakov »

jolux wrote: post #111
vosper wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Isn't mailto: opening Mail.app for you?

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by niftich »

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.

This. The relevant Chromium issue report is here [1], and it's been open for years.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24690

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by Sylos »

nsgi wrote: post #107
x1798DE wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it were me, I'd like entire essentially unconnected sub-profiles, restricted by sites - different caches, potentially different extensions, etc. Even with third-party cookies disabled, you end up with little tricks to authenticate and track people across domains.

You mean like Chrome Profiles?

Firefox also has these kind of profiles, but he wrote restricted by site, so they'd have to transparently switch as you're using the browser.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by Sylos »

StevePerkins wrote: post #110
icebraining wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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; t…

Firefox profiles used to be more prominent/accessible. Then about 5 or so years back, Mozilla decided to dumb down the UI to better imitate Chrome. Now I think you have to actually launch Firefox from the command-line with special arguments to use profiles (or else install a third-party plugin to manage them).

You can also type "about:profiles" into the URL-bar, but yeah, that's a rather recent addition.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by the8472 »

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…

He said unless I say otherwise. First-party isolation lacks customization hooks.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by Manishearth »

muddysky wrote: post #38

Slightly OT: This page reads like Mozilla's Developer Network (MDN) online documentation, I had to read the first sentences few times until I got what container tabs are about. However, very nice feature.

That's because it's on the Mozilla wiki. I'd expect better docs on the support site (and maybe MDN) once the feature nears completion/release. The mozilla wiki contains all kinds of odds and ends about random ongoing projects (status, documentation) and is mostly developer-facing.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by Sylos »

znpy wrote: post #53
drinkjuice wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+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!

I actually have a use-case for this. I have a "webdev"-profile where I've got none of my usual webpage-breaking privacy extensions, I do have Tree Style Tabs there, because when coding I tend to open a ton of tabs, and well, then I use the Container Tabs, since I need to be able to see my webpage as logged-out user, as logged-in user etc.

Re: Container Tabs

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Post by qrco »

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…

where do you set those configurations? (handlers, hardware access, flash, pdf, webgl)

do you have a link to an official chrome help page?

also what chromium do you use? and where did you get it?

sorry for my ignorance.

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