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In Firefox you create a private window, not a private tab. Inside the private window, you can have multiple tabs; closing them and restoring them. Once you cl
by aembleton 11y ago
In Firefox you create a private window, not a private tab.
Inside the private window, you can have multiple tabs; closing them and restoring them. Once you close the private window everything is gone.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoChrome also uses a private window, not private tabs. You just can't restore closed private tabs, which is probably how it should be.
- atrotors 11y agoThe thing is that chrome sandboxes every tab, but firefox doesn't and it's easier for firefox to restore tabs than for chrome is to do.
- Spellman 11y agoChrome fires up a separate thread for each tab. So any information about that tab is lost once the tab, (and thus sandbox) closes. No information specific to the tabs is stored in the window unless explicitly done (like bookmarking). Thus, the session history is stored inside that sandbox, so it's gone once it's closed. 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.
- reader_1000 11y agoI was talking about how tabs is handled in private window.
- thaumasiotes 11y ago> In Firefox you create a private window, not a private tab. 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.