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by asutherland 3501 days ago
If you're willing to try Firefox Nightly, check out the containers experiment: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...

While everything still happens within a single profile, sites in different containers get different storage (cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, etc.) and cannot see each other.

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Cool.

I've been using a combination of NoScript,Self-destruction coockies,ublock and a personal vimperator script to wipe out all that nasty stuff when I close the window.

https://github.com/liloman/dotfiles/blob/master/vimperator/....

https://github.com/liloman/dotfiles/blob/master/Scripts/Scri...

By the way firefox is pretty nasty by default and you must do a lot of hard work to evade tracking, in special by google:

https://github.com/liloman/dotfiles/blob/master/vimperator/....

Of course you must use custom fonts if you don't want to be tracked by google for every single webpage you enter.

I think I will play with containers for firefox when I try firefox 50. Something like a new container for every tab, I reckon It must be pretty easy with vimperator(or whatever plugin you like) to make .

Put your vimperator/penta/vimium/X to work for you. :)

That looks way more powerful than what Chrome is doing. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion
I think this is great, but is there going to be a simple "sign in" feature similar to Chrome? People just love having their bookmarks / toolbars / etc follow them wherever they go.
You can sign in to a Firefox Account to sync your bookmarks, passwords, history, etc.:

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/accounts/