What is missing in todays browsers is handling multiple profiles/sessions per browser window. I'd like to open my three gmail accounts in three separate tabs without them knowing about each other. That would simplify a lot of scenarios.
I skipped to the FAQ and wow, this is not a win at all for people who desire privacy (i.e. the people interested in this HN comment thread, in theory).
Ah, another browser to keep an eye on. In a good way. What else is there that is worth checking out? I.e. not a 1:1 chrome/ff clone with one extension integrated.
https://vivaldi.com/ (they push a few new things, it's closed source.. and rather taxing on performance)
Definitely not logged in unless you open that page from an already logged in tab. I'd prefer every new tab to have unique session unless it's a child of another tab.
Seconded! For example, in the case of running two or more gmail sessions -- contrived, but I've had to do this before -- Firefox's private windows are no longer suitable because for some reason they share state with each other.
I would also prefer each external link to be opened in a private tab. Ideally with a whitelist that would allow domains to be opened in "public" profile. I somewhat handle this by two separate browsers now.
I think those "tree tabs" extension would be great to separate these groups even visually. So each root node is a separate session for example.
You can't do it in tabs in the same window, but with IE you can have as many sessions that aren't aware of each other in separate windows: File | New Session.
It is one of the few things IE gets better (and has for a long time) than Chrome or Firefox where a single OS-level user can have at most two distinct sessions at any given time: one private and one not. It can be very handy from a development PoV when testing multi-user workflows in your application.
One caveat: if the site/application uses saved cookies rather then those set to expire at the end of the current session they will still interfere with each other when opened this way as saved cookies (those with an explicit expiry date/time) are considered global (with respect to the OS user) rather than local to the browser session.
I've not checked if this feature has carried into Edge. The clients I support are so backward that I'll not need to test against that this decade!
Fairy nuf. But that isn't nearly as convenient as "File | New Session" for ad-hoc tasks. And I thought only one profile could be in use at once in FF (though that could be worked around with multiple OS users) - am I completely barking up the wrong tree there or is that something that has changed in recent years?
Agreed. In my case especially with bookmarks; it'd be great to be able to select 1 profile with all my personal stuff, and one with all my work related bookmarks.
