Hi Francois!

(I mostly looked at the private session wiki page, FWIW.)

When you're talking about isolation, what exact things do you want to isolate from? Is it just the appId based cookie jars which give you isolation across some storage mechanisms? Or are you trying to achieve more than that? I prefer us to first agree on what goals we would like to achieve irrespective of the existing appId based isolation, to make sure that the implementation doesn't guide our design.

Cheers,
Ehsan

On 2015-01-20 11:16 PM, Francois Marier wrote:
A few of us have been thinking about how to let users manage their
multiple online identities in Firefox, as well as how to isolate sites
from one another. Our goal is to find tools we can offer to
privacy-conscious Firefox users.

Containers [1] was the first idea that Bram and I came up with. It's a
lightweight way to keep sessions (i.e. cookies, local storage, etc.)
separate. A single person could have more than one container in their
browser.

User profiles [2] is a set of ideas that Bram and Ryan Feeley had about
how to expose (and extend) the existing browser profile functionality to
users. Multiple people who share the same browser (e.g. a family) could
use this more heavyweight separation to keep their sessions, history and
bookmarks separate.

Finally, we also brainstormed a few ideas around private sessions [3] to
address a few use cases around session isolation without interfering
with the existing purpose/goals of private browsing.

None of this is final (or even scheduled to be implemented at this
point), we're just exploring a few ideas and welcome any feedback.

Francois

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Containers
[2]
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/User_Profiles
[3]
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Private_Session
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