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> crash in private mode, I want to be able to reopen them, because I didn't close them. I remember a post couple of months ago here, on HN about the fact that

> crash in private mode, I want to be able to reopen them, because I didn't close them. I remember a post couple of months ago here, on HN about the fact that Edge is in fact remembering the tabs if the browser crashes on Private Mode. The outrage was huge and people were like "WTF Microsoft!?". I bet they implemented the feature because of some manager had same thought process as you and told the engineers to do so. This is working as intended, browser should NOT remember anything you do when you are in private mode so it should NOT store any information (including opened websites) anywhere even for the case that browser crashes.

logicallee 9y ago
It means they fucked it up. There needs to be a second process that immediately throws a window up when the main browser crashes so that there is no crash. It just keeps running. It's that simple.
- twblalock 9y ago
  It's not simple. What would prevent the new window from crashing for the same reason the original window crashed?
  - logicallee 9y ago
    >It's not simple. It is that simple. >What would prevent the new window from crashing for the same reason the original window crashed? The same thing that prevents every other application on my computer from crashing whenever Google Chrome does? Why do none of my other programs crash? Just write it in a different language by a different team and more securely and have it call the open tabs and windows over an API and when Chrome crashes, throw up an option to reopen them. Done. This is a 200 KB program. But I guess a company with an $11B R&D budget couldn't possibly make a 200 KB minimum viable product. (A minimum viable product for a web browser is a window that keeps a web page open.) If their $11 billion R&D budget isn't enough, they need to change this language: You’ve gone incognito Pages you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around in your browser’s history, cookie store, or search history after you’ve closed all of your incognito tabs. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be kept. However, you aren’t invisible. Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit. To this language: You’ve gone incognito Pages you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around in your browser’s history, cookie store, or search history after you’ve closed all of your incognito tabs *OR GOOGLE CHROME UNEXPECTEDLY CRASHES*. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be kept. However, you aren’t invisible. Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit. Because they are not keeping their current promise of keeping this stuff until I close them. But hey, I guess there's only so much $11 billion can do. Maybe in twenty years they can keep a web page open for me until I close it.

logicallee 9y ago

It means they fucked it up. There needs to be a second process that immediately throws a window up when the main browser crashes so that there is no crash. It just keeps running. It's that simple.

twblalock 9y ago
It's not simple. What would prevent the new window from crashing for the same reason the original window crashed?
- logicallee 9y ago
  >It's not simple. It is that simple. >What would prevent the new window from crashing for the same reason the original window crashed? The same thing that prevents every other application on my computer from crashing whenever Google Chrome does? Why do none of my other programs crash? Just write it in a different language by a different team and more securely and have it call the open tabs and windows over an API and when Chrome crashes, throw up an option to reopen them. Done. This is a 200 KB program. But I guess a company with an $11B R&D budget couldn't possibly make a 200 KB minimum viable product. (A minimum viable product for a web browser is a window that keeps a web page open.) If their $11 billion R&D budget isn't enough, they need to change this language: You’ve gone incognito Pages you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around in your browser’s history, cookie store, or search history after you’ve closed all of your incognito tabs. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be kept. However, you aren’t invisible. Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit. To this language: You’ve gone incognito Pages you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around in your browser’s history, cookie store, or search history after you’ve closed all of your incognito tabs *OR GOOGLE CHROME UNEXPECTEDLY CRASHES*. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be kept. However, you aren’t invisible. Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit. Because they are not keeping their current promise of keeping this stuff until I close them. But hey, I guess there's only so much $11 billion can do. Maybe in twenty years they can keep a web page open for me until I close it.