OK, enough is enough. I'm switching to Firefox now.
Protip to Firefox: Advertise this feature more. The other stuff I don't really care about, and didn't really convinced me to move to Firefox. Fear is an excellent motivator, however.
Protip to Firefox: Advertise this feature more. The other stuff I don't really care about, and didn't really convinced me to move to Firefox. Fear is an excellent motivator, however.
(+endorsement: it's a really great feature for power users)
I'm not going to get my mother to use containers to keep her banking separate from her knitted craft forums, the same way I'm not going to get her to use a password manager, but I can install the Facebook Container and buy her a book to write passwords in so she uses more than two different ones.
The new 2.x release of Facebook Container allows people to use "Log in with Facebook". To do so, it adds the site into the Facebook Container so sub-resources and 3rd-party cookies are available to the Facebook SDK js.
It warns the user before they enable this on any site.
(Disclosure: I work on Chrome, though on Developer Tools)
Both my parents use Chrome because it's already installed on Android and works fine. My attempts to convince them to Firefox didn't work out even with multiple attempts.
1. most people don't need many passwords outside of the browser.
2. in-browser password managers can offer a better user-experience than standalone password managers. (although, so far, firefox's built-in password manager is lagging behind in this regard.)
3. password managers integrated into the core of the browser have a smaller attack surface than those implemented as plugins.
4. users of a particular browser already trust the browser vendor with their passwords, at least enough to let the browser see and transmit them every time the user logs in to a site.