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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:13PM
[Now what starts with the letter C?
Cookie starts with C
Let's think of other things
That starts with C
Oh, who cares about the other things?]
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me
Oh, cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me
Oh, cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C
[Hey you know what?
A round cookie with one bite out of it
Looks like a C
A round donut with one bite out of it
Also looks like a C
But it is not as good as a cookie
Oh and the moon sometimes looks like a C
But you can't eat that, so ... ]
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me, yeah!
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me
Oh, cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C, yeah!
Cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C, oh boy!
Cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C!
(Cookie Monster eats the cookie)
Umm-umm-umm-umm-umm
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:39AM
In every browser there is a way to delete cookies after every session. In most browsers (at least Pale Moon and Dragon and Opera) you can block third party cookies, if not within the settings, then by use of add-ons. If you can't remember all your passwords you belong to way too many sites that require log-in.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 5, Informative) by MrNemesis on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:15AM
Even better than blocking third party cookies and deleting cookies at the end of a session is deleting cookies from non-whitelisted domains as soon as you close the last tab [mozilla.org].
"To paraphrase Nietzsche, I have looked into the abyss and been sick in it."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:57PM
If you're remembering passwords instead of managing them, your length and complexity is almost certainly lacking, xkcd notwithstanding. Who are you to say how many different sites people chat/shop/share content at (or how many accounts per site they have)? That kind of practice strongly encourages the Internet oligopoly situation we have with amazon, Google, Facebook, etc, and beyond that doesn't really begin to aid security except by random accident.