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Ask HN: Browser for individual websites?
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?
- rbnio 15y agoFluid (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://fluidapp.com/ http://prism.mozillalabs.com/ http://prism.mozillalabs.com/
- pasbesoin 15y agoHave a look at the Firefox Profile Manager (I assume it's still present in the most recent versions). Separate profiles are separate.
- irunbackwards 15y agoIncognito tab! We need this, yesterday!
- morrow 15y agoThere'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.
- sendos 15y agoIf this eventually gets added to Chrome's main release, this may be the feature that gets me to switch to Chrome (from Firefox)
- Andrenid 15y agoI 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.