Temporary Identities are good for a quick way to get an isolated cookie jar to do things like see non-personalized search results or spot check ads. If you want more control over the privacy features related to your accounts we recommend using a Temporary Identity or an Identity. This group of tabs is best suited to 'plain old browsing'. You can assign a specific proxy connection to always be used with a particular Identity so that the browsing history is more consistent. Once you close the Temporary Identity tab that relationship is lost. You can use Ghost Proxy Control to determine what proxy a Temporary Identity tab will use. For more granular and controlled proxy assignments across a whole set of tabs that share one cookie jar we recommend you use either a Temporary Identity or an Identity. You can assign a proxy to a specific tab in this group, but not the whole group.
Identity tabs share the same cookie jar no matter what Workspace they are in. A purple tab in one Workspace has a separate cookie jar from purple tabs in other Workspaces.
The Default Identity shares one cookie jar across the whole browser. You select the colors for all of your tabs so you can select more meaningful colors.
The plain old gray color of the tabs tells you these tabs work like the "plain, old" browsers.ΔΆ5 colors are pre-selected for you and that limits that number of Temporary Identities you can have per Workspace. When you create an Identity, the cookie jar is saved permanently even if you close all tabs in it. If you close all purple tabs, that cookie jar is destroyed and you'll get a new cookie jar the next time you open them. The Default Identity works like tabs in a normal browser where there's one cookie jar across the whole browser. Permanent AND shared across all Workspaces.