Re:Firefox 81.0
by sundarurfriend on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:00PM
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Is that different from opening in an incognito window? Genuine question, I don't know how cookies are handled in private windows and what other weirdness they might invite, but they do seem to serve this purpose very well for me. I often 'Open in Private Window' websites that have been linked from reddit or HN but that I don't trust to play nice with my privacy.
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Re:Firefox 81.0
by the_pwner224 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:20PM
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You can only have one private window instance, with all your private window contents mixed in that scope. And this instance cannot be discarded until you close every single private window. It would be better to have multiple temporary instances so you don't have different websites mixing and don't need to close everything to reset your session on one site.
Re:Firefox 81.0
by eulenteufel on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:25AM
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Are you sure about that?
I was testing some web app earlier this year and everytime I opened a new icognito window I was able to log in again as an other user. Opening another tab in the same window shared the state of the window.
Re:Firefox 81.0
by the_pwner224 on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @06:33PM
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Maybe it's different in Chrome. In FF they all share an instance.
A couple things:
- If you need to restart the browser, temporary containers are persistent. Several times I've lost a session from an incognito window because Firefox wanted to restart and wouldn't let me load any new pages until I did so.
- Pages visited in containers are still included in your browser history, which can be useful if you want to find something again later
- You can have multiple temporary container sessions running at once; while all incognito windows share a session, cookies, etc.