Comments on: Multiple Cookie Containers for Firefox

By: Lukas

Lukas — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:30:01 +0000

Hi,
is this project still supported? Do you still developing new versions? I like this feature, but some of my firefox plugins are disabled. What about the possibility to set which jar will be used when opening new tab/new window/etc. ?

By: Rob Aldred

Rob Aldred — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:57:55 +0000

Hi mate,
I can confirm, I have tried your compiled version on windows and it works like a dream!!! Simple but perfect in every way.
Exactly how it should have been implemented in Firefox right from the beginning.

Nice work,
Unfortunately I can’t use it all the time at the moment, because of possible rendering issues in the Firefox 3 code.

I really hope this makes it into Firefox very very soon.

Rob

By: Biton

Biton — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:48:48 +0000

Hi Loune

Thanks for your time spent on developing this. I did a few test using the Oracle Applications forms and unfortunately it wasn’t conclusive.
My test is follow:
- login to one environment using Jar A. That opens a java form (Oracle bastardised version of Java)
- open a new FF window. Log on to same environment using Jar B

Results: window opened using Jar A gets closed and is replaced by the one in Jar B. This is the same behaviour I get with the non patched version of FF.

Hope that helps.

By: Loune

Loune — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:08:02 +0000

Thanks for the support, Monkey. Regarding your question, long term cookies should already be saving in the separate jars. All cookies (session and long term) get saved to the jar you selected for that tab.

The design of the system is flexible and extensions that have very fine grain cookie filtering/control can be created. You could even have a system where session cookies and long term cookies get directed to different jars for the same tab.

By: Monkey

Monkey — Tue, 15 May 2007 03:28:24 +0000

Just a few words of encouragement: I like your overall design for this feature, at least from an end-user perspective, I am not familiar enough with mozilla code to comment on the source-level changes.

The “jars” UI for this patch made me think of a related feature that I have been longing for and this patch might make it possible.

Could there be any way to direct long-term cookies into a jar as well as the session cookies? I think it would be nice to have a tab open for general browsing that would either a) not save cookies or b) save them in a location that could be cleared separately from my regular browser cookies, such as a separate “jar.”

The purpose would be for tidiness and privacy – I usually don’t want to save any cookies but I do have a few trusted sites where I like to remain logged in. It would be spectacular if I could have some tabs with this privilege and other tabs without, yet avoid breaking the sites that depend on cookies.

P.S: I have downloaded your patched build and I will test it shortly. I will post my findings to bugzilla and if this works then I will vote for the bug :)