Nowadays, people are online almost throughout the whole duration of the day in some way or the other, however at the same time it would indeed be desirable if they can browse the internet as completely different users at different times of the day and that is what one of the world's most popular web browsers, Mozilla Firefox is trying to introduce. In a recent development, Mozilla Firefox have decided to include the concept of 'containers' in its Firefox Nightly browser and if this feature becomes available then users of the browser would be able to browse the internet using different online identities or 'containers'.
Tanvi Vyas, a security enginnner at Mozilla, wrote in the company blog, "We all portray different characteristics of ourselves in different situations. The way I speak with my son is much different than the way I communicate with my coworkers. The things I tell my friends are different than what I tell my parents. I'm much more guarded when withdrawing money from the bank than I am when shopping at the grocery store. I have the ability to use multiple identities in multiple contexts. But when I use the web, I can't do that very well. There is no easy way to segregate my identities such that my browsing behavior while shopping for toddler clothes doesn't cross over to my browsing behavior while working. The Containers feature I'm about to describe attempts to solve this problem: empowering Firefox to help segregate my online identities in the same way I can segregate my real life identities.
She went on to state, "With Containers, users can open tabs in multiple different contexts - Personal, Work, Banking, and Shopping. Each context has a fully segregated cookie jar, meaning that the cookies, indexeddb, localStorage, and cache that sites have access to in the Work Container are completely different than they are in the Personal Container. That means that the user can login to their work twitter account on twitter.com in their Work Container and also login to their personal twitter on twitter.com in their Personal Container. The user can use both mail accounts in side-by-side tabs simultaneously. The user won't need to use multiple browsers, an account switcher, or constantly log in and out to switch between accounts on the same domain." This is without doubt going to be a revolutionary feature when it is finally made available to all Mozilla Firefox users.
