Re:Containers Come to Firefox Test Pilot
by alyandon on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:19PM
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I would pay actual money to help get a feature like that into Chromium or Firefox. Hell, if Firefox added that exact feature I might actually rethink my decision to switch to Chrome once they drop support for all the addons I use.
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Re:Containers Come to Firefox Test Pilot
by cpeterso on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:50PM
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There is an experimental implementation of that feature, called "First Party Isolation", in Firefox today. You just need to set the `privacy.firstparty.isolate` pref = true in about:config.
With this pref enabled, advertiser X will serve you different cookies on site A and B. They won't be able to track your browsing history from site to site. However, this breaks a lot of sites that depend on third-party services for login authentication or comment systems.
Here is the Firefox bug where you can report broken sites:
Re:Containers Come to Firefox Test Pilot
by kingstonTime on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:08PM
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This would actually be implementable with the new WebExtensions for containers https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...
Essentially building a new container per origin.
Re:Containers Come to Firefox Test Pilot
by groovecoder on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:02PM
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We are also hard at work supporting add-on authors porting to WebExtension APIs. I'm especially trying to help Privacy & Security add-on authors.
uBlock, NoScript, Self Destructing Cookies. Also DisableWebRTC. Firefox would be Opera, Chrome or Vivaldi without them. No particular reason to use it or a random one among the others. Stylish and Greasemonkey are useful too, when sites insist doing the wrong things. I hope all of them survive the switch. Will they?
Re:Containers Come to Firefox Test Pilot
by groovecoder on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:58PM
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You can keep track at https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/#addons