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What is priv8? This is a Firefox addon that uses part of the security model of Firefox OS to create sandboxed tabs. Each sandbox is a completely separated world: it doesn’t share cookies, storage, and a lots of other stuff with the rest of Firefox, but just with other tabs from the same sandbox.

Each sandbox has a name and a color, therefore it will be always easy to identify which tab is sandboxed.

Also, these sandboxes are permanent! So, when you open one of them the second time, maybe after a restart, that sandbox will still have the same cookies, same storage, etc - as you left the previous time.

You can also switch between sandboxes using the context menu for the tab.

Here an example: with priv8 you can read your gmail webmail in a tab, and another gmail webmail in another tab at the same time. Still, you can be logged in on Facebook in a tab and not in the others. This is nice!

Moreover, if you are a web developer and you want to test a website using multiple accounts, priv8 gives you the opportunity to have each account in a sandboxed tab. Much easier then have multiple profiles or login and logout manung>ally every time!

Is it stable? I don’t know :) It works but more test must be done. Help needed!

Known issues?

• window.open() doesn’t work from a sandbox
• e10s is not supported yet.
• The UI must be improved.

Screenshots:

This is the manager, where you can “manage” your sandboxes.

The panel is always accessible from the firefox toolbar.

The context menu allows you to switch between sandboxes for the current tab. This will reload the tab after the switch.

3 separate instances of Gmail at the same time.

License: Priv8 is released under Mozilla Public License.
Source code: bakulf :: priv8

http://143th.net/post/105342885096