Ask HN: Browser for individual websites?

4 pointsby sendosvor 15 Jahren6 comments

Is there a browser that allows you to log in to Facebook in one window (or tab), to Google+ in another, to Twitter in another, etc, such that those windows or tabs have individual/isolated sets of cookies, so that you can browse the web in another window or tab and not have these websites track you?

If such a browser does not exist, would it be relatively easy to modify Firefox or Chrome source code to make it behave this way?

5 comments

morrowvor 15 Jahren

There's been an experimental feature in the works under chrome's about:flags page called Multiple Profiles, which may eventually do what you describe, though it's still under development so you aren't able to turn it on yet:

Multiple Profiles Associates every browser window with a profile, and adds a profile switcher in the upper right corner. Every profile has its own bookmarks, extensions, apps, etc.

sendosvor 15 Jahren

If this eventually gets added to Chrome's main release, this may be the feature that gets me to switch to Chrome (from Firefox)

rbniovor 15 Jahren

Fluid (uses WebKit, Mac only) or Prism (based on Firefox) allow you to create standalone apps from websites. Both have separate cookie storage for each website.

http://fluidapp.com/ http://prism.mozillalabs.com/

Andrenidvor 15 Jahren

I use a standard Chrome window + an Incognito Chrome window to do similar, but the problem with that is that if you open more Incognito windows (eg more then 2 sites at once), they share the cookies/etc with the first Incognito window.

It'd be nice if every Incognito window had it's own silo'd cookies/data.

irunbackwardsvor 15 Jahren

Incognito tab! We need this, yesterday!

pasbesoinvor 15 Jahren

Have a look at the Firefox Profile Manager (I assume it's still present in the most recent versions). Separate profiles are separate.