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by englehardt 3653 days ago
I prototyped this feature last year as an intern at Mozilla. I think the engineering done for containers can be exposed in a lot of cool ways to the user. I'd love for you to send in your ideas on the comment form [1]. One of the features we considered last summer was "site specific containers" [2], which would support your facebook example.

[1] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oQN14TUnqj-MDErp8MKxH_v7Ytt... [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...

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Is it possible to implement this feature via the extension API ? Exposing the low-levels, like choosing the cookie jar or intercepting calls to the local storage, would sprawl some really good privacy-enhancing extensions.

EDIT: Looks like there are already extensions doing that ! nice !

> EDIT: Looks like there are already extensions doing that ! nice !

Can you send a link?

On chrome it's "Tab Cookies": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-cookies/iahecg...

On firefox, "Self destructing cookies": https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...

You're welcome :)