Mozilla's Firefox browser gets a new feature today, is designed to show you isolate your online identity, and allows you to log on to multiple messages or social media instead of using multiple browsers side by side.
The new "container tabs" feature, now available in unstable nightly Firefox release pipeline, to provide you with four default status (individual, work, shopping and banks) with their own store cookies, IndexedDB data storage, local storage, and caching. In practice, this means you can surf the Amazon ad products you may have seen around following your Web when you switch back to your job role. As the Firefox team points out, the idea behind this feature is not new, but no one has found the best gift to give this new user tools.
"How will the user know the circumstances under which they operate? , "The group asked. "If the user made a mistake, and using the wrong context; users can also restore? Browser can be automatically assigned to the container's site, so that users do not have to manage their identity through their help? Heuristic algorithm for tasks such as using a browser? "
Mozilla admits it does not have the answer, but I hope that this feature will be added to the nightly build will allow it to do more research and collect feedback.
In the current implementation, the Firefox browser allows you to switch between different roles and you are using these two URL forms and roles in their respective color tab, highlight that use them.
Different identities still share the same history, bookmarks, saved passwords, search, and form data, but your access to the site is that the fit together is there a simple way to access role from different browsers, even if they are from the same machine. "This is because the site does not have access to the user's local store of history," Mozilla notes. "We only isolates the data access this site the user has access to the data. Containers are designed to have a need to portray themselves to the Web in different ways, depending on their context to individual users.
Mozilla notes that ad trackers could still fingerprint your browser (that is, use your IP address and the individual attributes of your browser and operating system to identify your device as you move between sites), even if you use different personas. “Containers are meant to help you separate your identities and reduce naive tracking by things like cookies,” the team says and acknowledges that this feature can’t replace Tor Browser or similar tools.
For the time being, this feature remains somewhat hidden and it’s too easy to forget what persona you are currently using and then unwittingly click on a bookmark related to another. It’d probably be good if you could also set different bookmarks for the different personas. That way, you’re less tempted to click on a news site when you are done with your banking or shopping session, for example.
However, only able to log into two Twitter accounts at the same time or can store is not advertising then the following cases for years without using anonymous browsing sessions, around you are worth the ticket price. Firefox's current execution profile, after all, is a bit awkward, most users may not even know this feature existed.
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