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Right now, what I'm doing is that all my standard browsing happens on Firefox, with uMatrix blocking JS and just generally locked down. For anything where I want to log in or have a persistent identity (stackoverflow, gmail, etc), I set up separate Chrome profiles and manually open each site in the appropriate profile.

Honestly, this whole thing is a bit of a pain - my ideal solution would be one where I can set up "domain groups" matching on the URL in the URL bar, each fully isolated from one another (different extensions, settings, caches, histories, forms, cookie stores, etc), and clicking links that go from one profile to another, all referer information is stripped out. Anything not matching one of the domain groups would go to the "default session" (which I would configure to be completely locked down and ephemeral).

Additionally, I'd want a context-menu item "Open link in group <x>", which would open something matching another domain group in the domain group of my choice, so that I could do things like visit gmail in two different groups.

Context based on domains sounds like a perfect and elegant solution. I hope someone from Mozilla is reading this.

I'm pretty sure about 90% of us Mozilla engineers are on hacker news :)

Not really, many people have both work and personal gmail accounts, for example. Contexts are not based on domains.

> For anything where I want to log in or have a persistent identity (stackoverflow, gmail, etc), I set up separate Chrome profiles and manually open each site in the appropriate profile.

FWIW, this is also doable in Firefox: try 'firefox --new-instance -ProfileManager'; you can also directly open up a new profile from the command line (and hence do the same from scripts, desktop entries, or whatever else your platform supports).

I have one profile for my finances, one with NoScript in blacklist mode, and then my normal profile.

Yeah, I know it can be done, I use Chrome because it's more convenient to click the profile icon and pop up the new profile in a new window. In my experience with Firefox profile switching it's always been a much more involved process than the two-click Chrome process.

try this, as simple as in chrome https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/

hmm so you can log into multiple profiles at once in chrome and have them run under separate session spaces?

i found that i can have on session space in regular chrome and one more in incognito, but all tabs in incognito seem to share that same session. i.e. opening a new tab automatically shares the same session as the other tabs in x domain. Maybe there is a way to control this behavior?

There is a button in the top right for profile switching. For me, it has always popped up a new window in a different profile, not closed the existing window.

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