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suvelx | 5 years ago

Are there any plans for complete partitioning?

I'd like to see a point where browsing on two different websites are treated as a completely different user. Embeds, cookies, cookies in embeds, etc.

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jrmann100|5 years ago

That's probably Firefox's own Firefox Multi-Account Containers[0]. Groups caches/cookies into designated categories for each tab (personal, work, shopping, etc.), with smart recognition for assigned sites.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

nixpulvis|5 years ago

Someone should do a study on the performance impacts of using something like this on all sites for various kinds of "typical" web browsing profiles. I'm honestly guessing a lot of the losses would be in the noise for me personally.

andrewaylett|5 years ago

I've had first party isolation turned on for possibly a couple of years now (certainly since before the pandemic) and it does break a small number of sites but nothing I particularly care about. Except that one internal tool that I've taken to loading in Chrome :P.

I don't recall the last time I had to temporarily disable it to allow something to work.

cassianoleal|5 years ago

Have you tried Temporary Containers[0]?

I use it to automatically open every new tab in its own temporary container.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Santosh83|5 years ago

I believe the 'First-party isolation' feature does this, but you need to enable it from about:config, and even then, I'm not sure if it is complete or bug-free.

ajvs|5 years ago

This is called First-Party Isolation, a key principle of the Tor Browser and an optional preference in Firefox.

jniedrauer|5 years ago

I'd like to see something like the firefox container extension automatically open a new container for every unique domain name. It could get tricky for eg. federated logins, so I'm not 100% sure what the implementation would look like. But it'd be nice to have the option.

SAI_Peregrinus|5 years ago

The Temporary Containers addon[1] does this. Combined with the usual Multi-Account Containers "always open this site in..." mechanism you can have some sites always open in a single container, but all other sites open in temporary containers that get deleted shortly after you close their tab.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

cmeacham98|5 years ago

privacy.firstparty.isolate :)