Re:How Ad Retargeting Ruined Christmas
by brokenparser on Friday December 20, 2013 @01:46AM
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You can do the same thing with Firefox if you pass the -ProfileManager argument. This functionality goes back all the way to Netscape: http://www.netfaqs.com/macintosh/mail/Classic/Netscape/4/pro...
It's just been hidden (and there's no need to set up email).
Each user gets their own profile: cache, cookies, history, saved data, extensions, etc. The only thing shared should be IP address and user agent. (Unless the user infects the profile with a url that identifies them.)
I use this for testing, isolating my facebook profile, and isolating all of my banking sessions from my main browsing window. (Just in case they have a CSRF issue.)