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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, 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.