Tabs in Containers Requiring Authentication Visible in Tree View

[runkly]

Hey there. Love quite a bit about this browser so far, happy to see such active development on it!

There is a behavior I'm noticing which I'm not sure is purposeful or an oversight, but I feel that it defeats the purpose of enforcing authentication on tabs within a container.

In list and grid mode in the tab view, tabs behave as I'd expect when using a container with authentication. Not visible until a passcode is entered and separated from the main tabs. However, in tree view mode, it seems to display all tabs, regardless of if they are private tabs or whether they are tabs with isolated cookies/authentication in a separate container. Here are some screenshots of the behavior:

I feel as though tree view can be a very useful tool, but that it should be a tree view that shows all tabs within either the same container or the same cookie session. Perhaps a setting to toggle which preferred behavior the user would like? I may not be the best voice for implementation of that decision lol.

Anyway, hopefully the screenshots demonstrating the issue make it clearer. Here's one also showing the settings used to create the container:

Thanks again for the hard work on this browser, I'm glad to see a new, promising open source android browser on the block!

[FaFre]

Thanks for this detailed issue @runkly !

I added a container based filter in https://github.com/FaFre/WebLibre/releases/tag/v0.9.30-alpha-13 (apk will become available shortly), please check it out and let me know what you think. The container filter applies to the last tab in a tree and I added logic to decouple parents when using cookie context's (doesn't apply to tabs created prior to installing this update). So tab trees are separated by cookie contexts form now on (doesn't apply to tabs created prior to installing this update).

The authentication feature was added a long time ago in a naive approach and hasn't really seen updates since then. The way it needs to be implemented is a bit hacky due to geckos tab handling and I was thinking to actually drop this feature when not being able to find good reasons to keep it. A good alternative would be having authenticated users.

[FaFre]

I added a poll here regarding the authentication feature: https://feedback.weblibre.eu/d/6-removal-of-the-tab-container-authentication