A few of us have been thinking about how to let users manage their multiple online identities in Firefox, as well as how to isolate sites from one another. Our goal is to find tools we can offer to privacy-conscious Firefox users.
Containers [1] was the first idea that Bram and I came up with. It's a lightweight way to keep sessions (i.e. cookies, local storage, etc.) separate. A single person could have more than one container in their browser. User profiles [2] is a set of ideas that Bram and Ryan Feeley had about how to expose (and extend) the existing browser profile functionality to users. Multiple people who share the same browser (e.g. a family) could use this more heavyweight separation to keep their sessions, history and bookmarks separate. Finally, we also brainstormed a few ideas around private sessions [3] to address a few use cases around session isolation without interfering with the existing purpose/goals of private browsing. None of this is final (or even scheduled to be implemented at this point), we're just exploring a few ideas and welcome any feedback. Francois [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Containers [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/User_Profiles [3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Private_Session _______________________________________________ dev-privacy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy
