{"id":23274,"date":"2016-06-17T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=256202"},"modified":"2016-06-17T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:33:46","slug":"mozilla-firefox-launches-container-feature-for-multiple-online-personas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/mozilla-firefox-launches-container-feature-for-multiple-online-personas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firefox launches container feature for multiple online personas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2016\/06\/Firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-256222 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2016\/06\/Firefox-300x181.png\" alt=\"Firefox\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>The Mozilla Firefox team has announced it will integrate a new containers driven feature to allow users to sign into multiple accounts on the same site simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>While the concept of using technology to manage multiple accounts and different personas is not a new idea, the practicalities have been out of reach. With the new feature, users will be able to sign into multiple accounts in different contexts for such uses as personal emails, work accounts, banking, and shopping.\u00a0Twitter is one of the most relevant examples in the immediate future, as it is not uncommon for individuals to have multiple twitter account for work and personal life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all portray different characteristics of ourselves in different situations,\u201d said Tanvi Vyas, one of the security engineers working on the project, on the company <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/tanvi\/2016\/06\/16\/contextual-identities-on-the-web\/\">blog<\/a>. \u201cThe 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\u2019m 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\u2019t do that very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Containers feature attempts to solve this problem: empowering Firefox to help segregate my online identities in the same way I can segregate my real life identities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mozilla Firefox team are one of the first to have cracked the equation, though it does admit there are a number of challenges to come. Questions which the team now need to answer include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How will users know what context they are operating in?<\/li>\n<li>What if the user makes a mistake and uses the wrong context; can the user recover?<\/li>\n<li>Can the browser assist by automatically assigning websites to Containers so that users don\u2019t have to manage their identities by themselves?<\/li>\n<li>What heuristics would the browser use for such assignments?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have the answers to all of these questions yet, but hope to start uncovering some of them with user research and feedback,\u201d said Vyas. \u201cThe Containers implementation in Nightly Firefox is a basic implementation that allows the user to manage identities with a minimal user interface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2016\/06\/Containers-for-Web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-256212 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2016\/06\/Containers-for-Web.png\" alt=\"Containers for Web\" width=\"555\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla Firefox team has announced it will integrate a new containers driven feature to allow users to sign into multiple accounts on the same site simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061,4315,1976],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-23274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-containers","category-mozilla-firefox","category-news-analysis","tag-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23275,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274\/revisions\/23275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}