If you want every tab to have its own session use temporary containers
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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Maybe it's because I have a programmer mentality but this is exactly the behavior I would expect, otherwise the "open link in new window"won't work reliably, all popups would fail and you couldn't "tear" off a tab in a new window
So, safari in ipadOS (that's the only place I use safari) works the same way, and it's as annoying as it sounds.
Though I must say as a dev, being able to use 3 different safari windows for 3 different accounts to test is wonderful, instead of needing multiple browsers.
Firefox multi account containers.
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For me that behavior was expected. E.g. if I open a link from incognito in a new window, then it obviously should also use incognito but share its context with the previous sessions, otherwise it would require you to login over and over again. If an independently opened incognito window behaved different from a link-click window, I'd find it even more confusing.
I would say it should be the opposite. Separate windows should be independent but tabs on other hand can share same session.
Nah, I want to keep the session so if I log in on Amazon, I can open multiple windows and tabs without needed to log in again and again. That is the expected behavior.
Nah, what if you drag a tab from one window to another.
yeah that seems intended and obvious to me as well
In fact, that's a good way to understand the behavior. Log into a site. Visit the site in your other window. If they share a session, you'll be logged in. If they don't, you'll be logged out.
This isn't well known?
Wish it was
IDK how else it could work.
Anyone who understands what a private window actually does, would expect it to work this way.
seems counter intuitive.. each incognito window should be separated into their containers.
seems like a good idea to take that container addon and apply that to incognito.
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I think what you are looking for is Containers. FF uses containers to wall things off from each other, whereas Private sessions are still all sandboxed together, as you discovered. I know this is quite different from how Safari, for example, handles things, but you can accomplish the same things, just a little differently.
... Are there people out there expecting more than a private/incognito session not saving your session data when you end it?
That is the sole reason I use private mode, because I don't want it to save cookies/cached/temp files/history locally for whatever I'm visiting.
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It's not even called incognito in FF.
Why would you ever sign into anything in incognito mode. Doesn't that pretty much defeat the whole purpose?
There are legitimate reasons. You may have a main account in a given page which you usually want to log into automatically, but at certain occasions you might want to use an alt without your browser forgetting to log into your main by default. A more specific example of this would be someone who has an alt account for NSFW stuff in social media because they want to be able to browse in their main without risk of genitals popping up on their screen while they're on the bus or using the phone next to family.
I use it to test that I've set up an authentication system correctly without a cookie bias, among other uses
Set everything up in main > confirm tests pass > log in from incognito with password vault to make sure the auto test didn't lie.
I use it when I need to log into a computer at work with a personal account, so that I know I'm logged out when I close the window.
anonymity is not the only usage for incognito, and frankly it doesn’t even make you very anonymous on its own
Signing in to a service would defeat incognito mode if its function were to make you incognito towards the websites you visit.
But since that's not what it does, I don't see why it would defeat anything.
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Containers!!!
For Firefox users who don't know - try right clicking on the new tab button...
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That's not that worrying to me.
Use profiles instead of incognito when possible. You can have profiles, with different privacy settings, for anything.
As a "I just care somewhat about privacy because the NSA sees everything anyway" guy... How the fuck are you all using your browsers and for what? HOW can this lack of knowledge cost anyone anything?
go on pornhub
dont close the window, just hide it afterwards
join a meeting, share the screen and type in „po” because you need to go to a website starting with po
pornhub shows up
get fired because youre jerking of with company property
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One example of being more careful about privacy that came up for me recently is that I have gmail as my primary mail and I use google docs for storing a lot of things I use for work. If I also want to block youtube ads and they say it's against their TOS, they can theoretically close my gmail and docs for violating it.
They might not and I haven't necessarily seen anything saying they're moving in that direction, but since last month I've been exclusively watching yt either through proxy sites and apps or opening it in incog windows where I'm logged out.
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I've started to realize that temporary tab containers do almost everything that I used to use incognito mode for, and more.
This is so counterintuitive and so important. Thank you.
For reference, private mode in Safari protects you from this.
"protects" you from this? Honestly, this is exactly how I'd expect incognito mode to work.
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