I'm about to scan my butt to the CEO and type in the CSO's email address in the From field just to prove my point....

Everyone's supposed to have some fancy alphanumeric-with-special-characters password and sit there in front of the machine copying it in slowly from their LastPass. No, thank you.

Where else in a healthcare business can you implement those?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx

Microsoft is thought of as this hugely evil company, but I don't know, maybe they are just as disorganized as every other company I've worked with and the product owner doesn't understand their customers all the time. The key is some comapanies I've worked for pivot fast and fix things they see as a mistake. Others try to bury and hide it.

Are they going to kill my pappy this time? I don't think so, but we'll see.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

Hanselman's point was that they weren't as evil as you might think

Inside the private window, you can have multiple tabs; closing them and restoring them. Once you close the private window everything is gone.

Firefox is maintaining a window with tabs within it. So it can still keep your session info for each tab stored at the window level and restore it even after a tab is close.

This isn't true either. Log in to a site in one private window and then open another one. You'll be logged in in that one too.

I mean, good story. 6 years ago it might have even been realistic for ms. These days, the middle level product manager who did that would rapidly find themselves on a high speed track to a new employer.

The Edge team isn't a bunch of faceless goons. Heck, a lot of them are really active in the browser development community and you can see they're trying really hard.

As much fun as it is to carry on the Slashdot tradition and make fun of every bug at MS as indicative of a toxic and stupid culture, maybe that's not entirely appropriate anymore.

I mean, it's not like Firefox and chrome haven't had bugs in this vein before. Hell, neither can fully protect repeatedly visited private urls on Android either.

But betanews wouldn't have very much to write about....

Chrome's Incognito mode has the exact behavior of not supporting things like session restore and closed tab reopening. It's kind of annoying for those of us who occasionally use Incognito windows like a convenient transient separate profile (specifically "give me a different cookie jar because some site's login is broken"), but I think the loss of functionality is worth it given what the mode is actually /for/.

It makes me wonder though if it'd be worthwhile having a mode that gives you a separate cookie jar but keeps the browser settings otherwise identical (bookmarks, suggest, etc). I suspect the distinction is too subtle for most people however.

You can run both at once.

However, its disingenuous at best that they didn't mention it anywhere.