Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers
by groovecoder on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:32AM
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Check out https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec... for the details of what is - and isn't - separated between Containers.
Thanks. So it appears that most of it is separated, with the exception of web history and search and form data (which can be identifying). This was also interesting:
"Users can log into multiple accounts on the same site, even when the site does not natively support concurrent sessions. ... Current solutions: Users open multiple browsers (this takes users away from Firefox). A user opens one account in Private Browsing mode (this has a limit of 2 accounts, and forces one to be ephemeral)."
There is no mention here of the -no-remote flag which has been available for many years.
Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers
by 482794793792894 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @06:03AM
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Well, the vast majority of users have no idea of the -no-remote or -new-instance flags, let alone of Firefox profiles.
Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers
by 482794793792894 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @06:11AM
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Generally speaking, Container Tabs try to make you look towards the internet like several users while on your end it behaves like a single-user experience. So, things like history, bookmarks and add-ons are not separated by Container Tabs.
And the technology behind this was developed by the Tor Browser devs and then uplifted into Firefox and reused for this, so this is a proper security/privacy feature, not something that only works on the surface.
People might get a false sense of security if all of these methods of saving data in the browser are not also separated along with cookies.