1086319 - Multiple private windows with individually encapsulated cookies

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117222

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[Bernd Brincken]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0.3 Waterfox/32.0
Build ID: 20141008010346

Steps to reproduce:

Feature request:
There should be the option to open a private-encapsulated window, with all cookie content accessible only within this window/session.

Background: There is now a multitude of services that for example Google Inc. has dragged under his umbrella:
Search, video, blogging, discussion et al
As an answer a current browser should give his users the tools to separate his online activities from one another.
Users could open one window with google search, one with youtube, another with blogger - with different accounts identified by respective cookies toward the server.

A further feature would allow one to save these sessions and restore them later, in a similar way the "session manager" extension works.


Actual results:

Current private windows share cookie activity, i.e. logging into a google account in one window changes the cookie and thus account identity in another (private) window as well.


Expected results:

Each private window should have only its local cookies accessible.

Comment 1

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

This idea is being tracked in bug 117222.

Comment 2

[Bernd Brincken]

Use cases explained there:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117222#c292