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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: 2, Disagree) by mtrycz on Wednesday September 02 2015, @08:39AM
People hating on Mozilla are just a bunch of ungrateful pricks.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @12:07PM
Well yes and no. They've done a great job in the past but recently they've made some less than stellar choices, e.g. including the DRM in the browser. They're capable of doing stupid things, just like the rest of us. And when they do, they should get the flak for it.