Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by nitin_flanker on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:36AM (#10071862)

I want a web browser that let me open multiple accounts of a similar site at once.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by mod50ack on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:39AM (#10071875)

I've always thought the same. It'd be great to have a browser that allowed fully independent sessions to be running simulataneously

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by jitl on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:50AM (#10071899)

Chrome has this feature with dedicated profiles, and you can accomplish this in firefox pretty easily using some good extensions.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by mod50ack on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:52AM (#10071909)

Yeah, but that's really a hassle and such a workaround shouldn't be required.

And firefox's extensibility is great as usual, but its bloat and the new UI and the ads on the tab pages disillusioned me

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by gamman on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:25AM (#10072009)

In chrome, you can make a shortcut for a profile by providing a flag --profile-directory="YourProfileName" It will be created if it doesn't exist and you can even set it to point to a TEMP folder for throwaways.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by paulryanrogers on Monday August 17, 2015 @08:58AM (#10072628)

Firefox can do this with separate profiles too, so long as you also include --no-remote with other instances.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by j_s on Monday August 17, 2015 @08:48AM (#10072593)

You get 1 alternate session w/ Incognito or Private Browsing modes. Internet Explorer has File | New Session. Otherwise, it's down to extensions:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/multifox/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/multilogin/nccllfn...

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by imakesnowflakes on Monday August 17, 2015 @08:26AM (#10072516)

I have been working on this plugin for a while. I just wrote up it's documentation. It is still waiting in the Mozilla's approval queue.

1. http://firstglitch.com/cookieplux/cookieplux-firfox-plugin-f...

Feel free to try it out.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by devbug on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:53AM (#10071917)

You can do this in Chrome, already.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by moviuro on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:58AM (#10071932)

Could you elaborate, please? (link, pointers?)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by dagw on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:09AM (#10071960)

Opening new incognito tabs/windows will let you log on with different accounts in each window.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by moviuro on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @04:17AM (#10078054)

No, cookies are shared across incognito windows (try gmail.com)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by dagw on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @04:35AM (#10078093)

Ah, didn't realize that. Thinking about it, I've only used this 'hack' to have two different gmail accounts open at the same time (one in normal, one in incognito).

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by nitin_flanker on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:08AM (#10071957)

No we can't. Please don't suggest to go incognito.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by d4n3 on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:43AM (#10072067)

There' a user switcher button in the top right corner, you can have multiple browser sessions with seperate histories / cookies (e.g. work / personal)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by WaltPurvis on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:11AM (#10073047)

Holy moley! I never noticed that!

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