Nightly Only Containers Feature

[Tanvi Vyas]

This week we enabled the Containers feature for testing in Nightly.
Containers is a way for users to have multiple browsing contexts within
the sameprofile. With these different contexts, Containersallows users
to login to multiple accounts on the same domain simultaneouslyin the
same browser window. Containers also improves privacy as it enables
users to partition their online identities and helps prevent tracking
across them.

If this capability interests you, please tryoutthe feature and provideus
withfeedback[1]. We want to ensure that the OriginAttributes
infrastructure it is built uponin platformis sound,and we would like to
validate and improve our ideas on the Containers concept. Note this
feature is an experimental Nightly only feature, thereforeit is not
goingto ride the trains.

To learn more about the feature, you can come to my lightning talk today
at the London All Hands[2] and/or read this blog post[3].

Thank you!

~Tanvi

[1] Take this 2-minute survey or email conta...@mozilla.com.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oQN14TUnqj-MDErp8MKxH_v7YttOASVdER4lwCgbGKY/viewform?c=0&w=1

[2] Platform Lightning Talks
Thursday 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm (Containers will be the 5th talk)
Location: Balmoral 2/Metropole West Wing/
Sched:
https://mozillalondonallhands2016.sched.org/event/73DN/platform-lightning-talks

[3]
_https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identities-on-the-web/_

[Tanvi Vyas]

Looks like there are some formatting issues with the blogpost link, so
sending it again:
https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identities-on-the-web/

[Karl Dubost]

Tanvi,

Le 16 juin 2016 à 11:42, Tanvi Vyas <ta...@mozilla.com> a écrit :
> This week we enabled the Containers feature for testing in Nightly.

Just wonderful. It ties to another previous thread.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/fmJ1UEENbfM

> [1] Take this 2-minute survey or email conta...@mozilla.com.
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oQN14TUnqj-MDErp8MKxH_v7YttOASVdER4lwCgbGKY/viewform?c=0&w=1

I'll give it a try and send some comments.

Some topics (I can open individual bugs):

* add-ons for one or more containers but not others (think ublock, umatrix for a container)
* renaming the containers
* create as many containers as you need
* "Hide the others"/"Hide this container" Not showing the tabs attached to one specific container. (think hiding apps in MacOS.)
* … (more to come)

--
Karl Dubost, Mozilla
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/moz

[Gabriela Montagu]

Hello,

I am a long time QA Nightly tester. I usually have my 3 gmail accounts open
in pinned tabs on the same browser without any issues. If you could please
tell me how Containers will improve my user experience, I would greatly
appreciate it!

I'll be happy to test this featured anyway!

Best regards,
Gabriela

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[Alessio Placitelli]

Gabriela, I think in your case it works because you "Added" the other
accounts to your main account.

In general, if you open a gmail account and then try to open another,
unconnected gmail account in another tab, it opens the former again.

With containers, you will be able to open different, unconnected gmail
accounts in different containers (which is kind of cool IMHO!)

[Gabriela Montagu]

Alessio,
Many thanks for answering me so quickly, I greatly appreciate it! You're
right of course! I agree,it will be cool! I'll try this as soon as I can as
I am now recovering from a broken elbow and surgery.

Best regards,
Gabriela

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Tanvi Vyas <ta...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> If this capability interests you, please try out the feature and provide us

> with feedback[1]. We want to ensure that the OriginAttributes

What's the proper Bugzilla component for bugs/feature requests related
to this? I got a bug triage email about
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280697 which is
currently categorized as Widget: Cocoa due to some OS X-specific
ideas, but I think will have a better chance of getting attention in a
Containers-focused component.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

[Andrea Marchesini]

We use dom::security for any containers-related bug.
Plus we have a meta bug: 1191418
Cheers,
b

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