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I think your fears are a bit unfounded. While I haven't tried "Log into Chrome", BrowserID lets you choose which persona you want to use. Sure, this means you

I think your fears are a bit unfounded. While I haven't tried "Log into Chrome", BrowserID lets you choose which persona you want to use. Sure, this means you have to have a bunch set up, but somebody could definitely write a plugin to allow the automatic creation of throwaway BrowserIDs, akin to mailinator emails. Also, Firefox lets you have as many browser profiles as you want -- I already use this to manage online identities, of which I have more than one, and segregating is useful.

bricestacey 15y ago
Chrome has the same idea of personas.
kijin 15y ago
Yes, it's definitely possible to do that. But switching between Firefox profiles is nowhere near as convenient as logging into two different sites with two different identities in two tabs next to each other, which is really easy to do if you don't share identities across sites. As I said, juggling multiple incognito windows is not fun. If anything, juggling multiple profiles is even less fun. But I guess I'm just ranting here, since it is well known that convenience and privacy don't always go together.
- StanS 15y ago
  "But switching between Firefox profiles is nowhere near as convenient..." - don't switch, run them in parallel. I use 6 different profiles and often have most of them open at the same time.
  - EvilTerran 15y ago
    Huh... I don't seem to be able to do that. "firefox -P" just brings up a new window if I've already got a FF window open.
    - mcpherrinm 15y ago
      You need a -no-remote switch too. I think the interface for profiles is pretty terrible, but it's pretty powerful.
      - EvilTerran 15y ago
        Ah, thanks! And, now knowing of -no-remote, I've managed to find http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
v0cab 15y ago
Yup. I've used a separate browser for YouTube ever since Google required me to link it to my 'Google account' (that I use for GMail).

bricestacey 15y ago

Chrome has the same idea of personas.

kijin 15y ago

Yes, it's definitely possible to do that. But switching between Firefox profiles is nowhere near as convenient as logging into two different sites with two different identities in two tabs next to each other, which is really easy to do if you don't share identities across sites. As I said, juggling multiple incognito windows is not fun. If anything, juggling multiple profiles is even less fun. But I guess I'm just ranting here, since it is well known that convenience and privacy don't always go together.

StanS 15y ago
"But switching between Firefox profiles is nowhere near as convenient..." - don't switch, run them in parallel. I use 6 different profiles and often have most of them open at the same time.
- EvilTerran 15y ago
  Huh... I don't seem to be able to do that. "firefox -P" just brings up a new window if I've already got a FF window open.
  - mcpherrinm 15y ago
    You need a -no-remote switch too. I think the interface for profiles is pretty terrible, but it's pretty powerful.
    - EvilTerran 15y ago
      Ah, thanks! And, now knowing of -no-remote, I've managed to find http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

v0cab 15y ago

Yup. I've used a separate browser for YouTube ever since Google required me to link it to my 'Google account' (that I use for GMail).