It's been a while since I had anything good to say about Mozilla but I think this qualifies as pretty positive.
A recent Mozilla Wiki entry reveals that Mozilla plans to add contextual identities to the Firefox web browser which allow users of the browser to separate certain data types from each other.
This would benefit Firefox users in several ways, for instance by allowing them to sign in to web services at the same time or by using custom identities for select websites only to block the service from tracking users across the Internet.
While this can be done with multiple Firefox profiles as well, one benefit of contextual identities is that they run under a single profile.
What this means is that you can switch between contexts in the same browsing session and window which cannot be done using profiles.
Certain add-ons such as Cookie Swap or Multifox support that as well, but they limit their functionality to cookies while Mozilla's implementation plans to go beyond that to cover other use cases.
I was going to throw a little bit of snark down here but I think I'll just go ahead and be happy and let you lot do the cynical thing today.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:13PM
Too bad for them that I'm already using Pale Moon.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:15PM
Comodo IceDragon [comodo.com]
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:37PM
You don't belong here, Windows user.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:57PM
Have you read the terms and conditions as well as their distribution agreement? Screw that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @12:04AM
What's the issue?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @12:19AM
Even though Pale Moon is open source and the source is supplied under the Mozilla Public License, redistribution of the Pale Moon binaries is limited by certain conditions under a proprietary license by Moonchild Productions, as permitted under 3.2b of the MPL v2.0. This has been required because of, among other things, the increasing number of rogue/altered copies and people taking advantage of the free availability of the browser to monetize upon, which is against Pale Moon's principles of free software.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by NickFortune on Wednesday September 02 2015, @09:48AM
Seems to be the same trademark restrictions the Mozilla have (and which caused the iceweasel fork).
Not a big deal, really. Certainly nothing that would keep me using Firefox :)
http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7818 [palemoon.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Gravis on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:20AM
from: https://www.comodo.com/repository/privacy-policy.php [comodo.com]
Product Download
Downloading a product will often require the input of personal information. This information will be used by Comodo or its affiliates to contact the customer about Comodo's products and services, including product updates and associated promotional material. This information may also be used as collated general demographic information to improve Comodo's products and services.
do you really want to some jackasses calling and emailing you?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:23AM
No I don't. That's why I leave the completely optional email box blank when I run Comodo Setup, and they have never ever contacted me.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @12:17AM
I think Pale Moon has the same problems as Firefox where security like that is concerned though. I'm not sure since I haven't used it in a while; I actually went back to standard old Firefox and just deal with the problems as they come.
Anyway, the problem is that even if you have the browser set to delete all of your history when you close it, a ton of sekret info still gets stored in those *.sqlite files in the profile directory.
I solved it the same way I solved the KDE history logging issues: mount my home directory from RAM (tmpfs) every time I boot, copy over clean .kde4 and .mozilla directories (and other things), and symlink nonvolatile stuff like my ~/src directories. Fresh home directory every time I boot, with no record keeping and no need to worry about Firefox's history-saving bugs.