As a developer I see a lot of use for this feature.
Contextual Identities on the Web
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#32Great for paywalls that just allow me to read X articles. Now if I create 5 profiles in the site, I can read 10*X!
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#33Omg, finally this exists :D I think this is the actual solution to the problem that 'private browsing' was trying to fix when it first came out.
'Private Browsing' was trying to fix history for activities you didn't want recorded.
I think, often it was more that one didn't want others to know about the history of those activities, which is not the same thing as not wanting them recorded.
If there had been a safe way to secretly store that history, by having seperate identitie's in Firefox, (with password protection and crypto, etc...), that would've solved that case nicely.
And if you clear that secret, protected identitie's history, we'd have had 'Private Browsing', but also a ton more.
Which we're about to get now, it seems.
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#34So this is like profiles but tab-level instead of window level?
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#35Cool addition, but I can easily see how people will make costly mistakes by using different account than intended.
I prefer to use different devices entirely.
When need arises to have multiple logins to the same page I simply open new private window.
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#36If we can get Tor Browser's first party origin feature in as well, this will be fantastic! I would love to have the ability to type www.facebook.com and get a context that isn't linked to the rest of my tabs. I also want ephemeral containers so I could open a tab that forgets its cookies when I'm done. Think private browsing but without forgetting my history, requiring a new window, or being limited to one context at…
Did you try the "Self destructing cookies"[1] extension for Firefox? It is close to your "forgets cookies" requirement. IIRC it has per domain settings and allows you to configure the cookies to self destruct after closing the tab, the browser or never. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...
It just respects the per domain exceptions in the built in cookie manager.
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#37This could not be more welcome at a time when facebook (UK) is displaying a new bar across the top of its page saying that by using it, I agree: "By clicking or navigating the site, you agree to allow our collection of information on and off Facebook through cookies." I already have a separate chromium "person" set up for facebook; might give firefox another go when this gets released.
I don't mean to tell people how they should and shouldn't use the web, but if you disagree with Facebook's off-platform data-collection practices, consider sending them a message about it and closing your account. They have no reason to change their policies unless we give them concrete evidence that it will hurt their business.
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#38@HN @dang why the post de-rename?
When submitting, I intentionally editorialized the title from something unclear out of mozilla's blog context ("Contextual Identities on the Web") to a more explicit title that speaks by itself ("Firefox 50 nightly new feature: Contextual Identities").
Isn't this considered valuable here?
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#39Great idea that makes me glad I use Firefox (settings for maximum privacy and discard all cookies when browser shuts down; I also use Chrome for Google properties, Twitter and Facebook).
With Firefox containers I suppose I could drop my two Browser setup, but I won't, at least for now.
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#40@HN @dang why the post de-rename? When submitting, I intentionally editorialized the title from something unclear out of mozilla's blog context ( "Contextual Identities on the Web" ) to a more explicit title that speaks by itself ( "Firefox 50 nightly new feature: Contextual Identities" ). Isn't this considered valuable here?
I cant speak for dang but the guidelines make it pretty clear that you should use the original title: