this is a feature that can also have interesting use cases for Smart TVs where TVs can often be a shared device within the family. One can have a more personalized TV setup or recommended contents without other people's usage screwing up one's recommended contents
Re, Joe Cheng —————————— Mozilla Corp. jch...@mozilla.com On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > We debated various features like "kid mode" and "work mode" recently. > But I think the features fell off the radar. > > I definitely think it would be cool to support though. There's a > number of cool things that we could do. Such as > > * Enable a "guest mode" where you can hand the phone to a friend > without enabling the friend to access any of your personal data, and > where all the guest data is deleted as soon as you exit guest mode. > * Enable using that guest mode even on a locked device (would require > the user to enable this of course). > * Enable having multiple "copies" of a given app for different > profiles. I.e. the user can have an icon for "work gmail" and another > for "personal gmail" and run the two side-by-side. We'll have to think > about exactly how this will work given that we're moving to a "no > apps" world. But it should still be very doable. > > I'm not sure if the best way to implement this is using Gecko > profiles. The problem with that is that we can't run multiple profiles > at once, which means that you have to shut down and restart Gecko any > time you want to use a different profile. > > Another option is to leverage the "cookie jar" support that we already > have and which we are improving as part of the nsec work. > > / Jonas > > > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Naoki Hirata <nhir...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > I think it would help out if we had some sort of profile management where > > all profile information was stored in a certain directory much like the > > Desktop version of Firefox. > > > > This way we can easily backup and restore profiles for all sorts of > things. > > > > The other thing that this would allow is we could encrypt a profile so > that > > it's locked down even on device. > > > > Why an end user might want this is that if they let their kid use the > > device, they might have a "kid gaming mode" versus "work mode" versus > > "personal use mode" > > > > Would this be a feasible feature for the next version? (not 2.5) It > might > > take a bit of work, at the same time, I think it would greatly help in > > various ways including backup/restore of profiles for testing. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-gaia mailing list > > dev-g...@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-gaia mailing list > dev-g...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia >
_______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
