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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by knome on Monday August 17, 2015 @09:46AM (#10072887)
Wouldn't creating a second user in chromium do what you want here? You could have a specific "social media" user.
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by brudgers on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:08AM (#10073029)
I'm not sure what you mean. If this involves "sign in to Chromium" then that seems to involve signing in to Google, and that sort of defeats the purpose.

Incidentally, Chromium is what I use for Facebook...and only Facebook, on this particular computer. And signing into Chromium with my Google account seems to me to be a big information leak.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by yincrash on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:47AM (#10073325)
Chrome/chromium has the distinction of user profiles[1]. You can have separate windows have separate profiles (but not separate tabs). This has nothing to do with Google accounts. Each profile has their own 'jail' of chrome resources (cookies/history/tabs/etc). This is really useful when you need multiple persisting sessions while doing web dev or whatever else.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/user-experience/multi-profiles

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by brudgers on Monday August 17, 2015 @11:41AM (#10073720)
Thanks. The command line can be used to launch Chromium with a specific user profile as described here:

https://superuser.com/questions/377186/how-do-i-start-chrome...

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by bwohlergo on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:00AM (#10072971)
to achieve what he said he'd need one user per browser tab...

you do realize that facebook etc still track you, even if you're logged out, right?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by VOYD on Monday August 17, 2015 @01:52PM (#10074814)
as can google, and every other major player.
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