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Be careful, your understanding of incognito mode in Firefox may be wrong and that could be costing you (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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All the incognito browser windows share the same "session" in Firefox. So say you open an Incognito window to browse Facebook or something, then you open another Incognito window, this new incognito window is linked to the previous incognito window, meaning you are logged into Facebook at that new Incognito window as well. This is because, as I explained before, all the incognito windows share the same "session"

The only way to clear incognito window is to close ALL of them and then create a new incognito window. You dont have to close the main non incognito Firefox window though, just close all the incognito windows. Then open a new one, now your previous session is destroyed and you are new again.

You may know it but its not that common knowledge as it should have been

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[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I didn't know that!

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Hail spez

[–] xhduqetz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I also found out when I was manually testing our product's logged-out UX at work and the 2nd trial started logged in.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Does incognito mode do anything that temporary containers don't? In a world of 2FA key password managers, having to log in every session is super easy—barely an inconvenience.

I'm kind of a dumb guy about computers, but destroying everything every time seemed like a smart call.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

If you want security use Tor

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